Xbox outage shouldn’t have affected games on disc, Microsoft confirms
… The massive outage started on Sunday night, and lasted for almost a day. …
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GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours
… The discovery of a major vulnerability in GitHub comes just days after GitHub had a major outage that randomly reverted previously merged commits code snapshots for some users. GitHub also had other outages last week, in what’s increasingly becoming a trend for the service. …
Hours after acknowledging an outage, Spotify says things are “all clear.”
Posted May 12, 2026 at 5:44 PM UTC J Jay Peters Hours after acknowledging an outage, Spotify says things are “all clear.” Spotify initially acknowledged there were “some issues” with the app at 12:49PM ET and gave the all clear at 4:57PM ET . …
Claude is down, or at least it was.
Anthropic’s most recent update on the outage is from about 10:25AM ET, saying “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented,” but that’s all we have for now, other than a dropping number of reports noted by Down Detector. …
Did Home Assistant take down this robot lawnmower’s cloud?
… One Redditor claims the outage stems from a bug in the Mammotion Home Assistant integration he had built. …
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
… With GitHub’s revenue now reporting into MCAPS and product work split into Microsoft’s Developer Division, some inside GitHub feel like there’s no leadership team anymore. “There’s basically no more GitHub at all anymore,” one GitHub employee told me last month. “It’s all Microsoft, and the company… …
Anker fixes the two worst things about power stations
… It’s also much smaller than most competing mid-range systems designed for vanlifers, job sites, or home backup where a power station can keep AC devices like a fridge or CPAP breathing machine running after a power outage. …
Microsoft to unveil new AI models and Windows improvements at Build
… I wrote last month that GitHub is facing a fight for its survival at Microsoft, after a wave of departures, outages, and security incidents. …
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… The company first got a report of “intermittent app outages” at around 2:40AM ET this morning. …
Here’s how the new Microsoft and OpenAI deal breaks down
… In last week’s Notepad issue I reported on employee concerns about GitHub reliability, and then hours later GitHub had a major outage. It was a particularly bad one, thanks to a bug that randomly reverted previously merged commits code snapshots . Then on Monday GitHub had a search-related outage. …