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Infra2026-08-18 · source-backed
Opened 13:40 UTC Aug 17, seven of eight affected services declared mitigated at 16:59 UTC, Copilot recovered last (r/programming thread, 2,043 upvotes, corroborated by BleepingComputer, GeekWire, Engadget). Downdetector logged 3,000+ reports. Root cause still undisclosed. Gergely Orosz posted during it (3,279 likes) that zero-nines reliability has been GitHub's #1 problem for ~6 months and his bet is architecture decisions from years ago. Reportedly the seventh incident in fifteen days. If your CI, agent harness, or dependency install path assumes raw.githubusercontent.com is always up, it doesn't have a fallback.
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VS Code uses Copilot / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (VS Code uses Copilot); both cover Copilot, GitHub, UTC; overlapping topics (been, copilot).
VS Code uses Copilot / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (VS Code uses Copilot); both cover Copilot, GitHub; overlapping topics (agent, copilot).
Microsoft released Copilot / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Microsoft released Copilot); both cover Copilot, GitHub; overlapping topics (agent, copilot).
Microsoft released Copilot / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Microsoft released Copilot); both cover Copilot, GitHub; overlapping topics (agent, been, copilot).
Copilot uses Outlook / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Copilot uses Outlook); both cover Copilot, GeekWire; overlapping topics (agent, copilot).
Microsoft released Copilot / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Microsoft released Copilot); both cover Copilot, GitHub; overlapping topics (agent, copilot).
Linked by a graph relationship (Microsoft released Copilot); both cover Copilot, GitHub; overlapping topics (copilot, days).
VS Code uses Copilot / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (VS Code uses Copilot); both cover Copilot, GitHub; overlapping topics (agent, copilot).