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Morning Edition · Friday, August 21, 2026Published at 2:31 AM EDT · New York
A Copilot Bug Pushed GitHub Authentication Traffic to Ten Times Normal Before the August 17 Outage
GitHub says both August incidents were capacity failures rather than bad deploys, and a separate cache-boundary defect is inflating Codex bills on Amazon Bedrock.
GitHub has published its account of the August 17 outage, and the cause traces back to its own artificial intelligence product. A bug in Copilot drove authentication traffic to roughly ten times normal levels, the service mesh became overlo…
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