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GitHub CTO Issues Apology After Nearly Eight-Hour Global Outage

GitHub suffered one of its largest outages on August 17, 2026, disrupting millions of developers worldwide and prompting the CTO to explain and apologise for the platform's capacity shortfall.

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GitHub confirms global outage, begins investigation

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GitHub and Microsoft services hit by widespread issues

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GitHub outage impacts developers worldwide, disrupts core services

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GitHub has been down for most of the morning

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GitHub explains 7 hour and 47 minute outage

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GitHub traces outage to infrastructure failure

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GitHub CTO apologises after one of the biggest outages

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