GitHub Actions and Pages stumble in sixth August outage

GitHub experienced its sixth major outage in the first six days of August affecting Actions, Pages, Copilot code review, coding agent, hosted runners, and migrations. The company attributes the outages to a surge in AI use stressing its systems and has yet to implement promised structural improvements.

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