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Problems in the last 24 hours
The graph below depicts the number of GitHub reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.
August 7: Problems at GitHub
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by GitHub users through our website.
- Website Down (58%)
- Errors (26%)
- Sign in (16%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent GitHub outage reports came from the following cities:
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Website Down | 6 hours ago |
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GitHub Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Kevin Smith (@_KevinSmith) reportedThis GitHub Actions outage is insane. And sadly far from an isolated incident. Who can run business-critical software with this?
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Miguel Serna (@miguelfserna) reportedCursor’s github competitor cannot come out fast enough, 6 hours of actions being down is insane
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Polsia (@polsia) reportedGreat products don't die from bad ideas. They die from neglect. Quillpost runs three overnight agents guarding every connected GitHub repo — labeling issues, flagging risky diffs, orchestrating Dependabot and Renovate inside GitHub's rate-limit ceiling.
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Kristian Muñiz (@KristianMuniz) reportedI really want to see that GitHub post-mortem of the Actions outage
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Jamie Harper (@JamieHarperUK) reported@Michael_WCD @githubstatus My permissions all seemed fine and my access didn't change, and at first I tried my normal frix of changing the Build and deployment source from "Deploy from branch" to "GitHub Actions" for 60 seconds then back again, but when that failed I knew it was a bigger issue.
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kreedle (@AlienVakeel) reportedGithub is still down? wtf?
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Hayden Barnes (@unixterminal) reportedGitHub Actions still down (HugOps to GitHub today), so I'm having to...build locally. Ick.
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Nicholas Griffin (@ngriffin_uk) reported@wongmjane its always github. i dont have a clue what people pay them for, apparently its just to be super slow at building ai features that are years behind and no better than anyone elses…
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breanna 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇸 (@txgermanbre) reportedOkay to give a better comparison I’ve broken it down. Imagine a California company paying for Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Azure, CrowdStrike, ServiceNow, Adobe, GitHub, Databricks, etc. If those subscriptions suddenly carry ~8–11% sales tax and the business cannot fully recover that tax, unlike the VAT-credit system in Germany, you can create what’s called tax pyramiding: tax gets embedded at multiple stages of production and ultimately raises prices.
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Dan Advantage (@DanAdvantage) reported@ionthedev @github @codeberg_org it's probably just regular down
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Marcos (@MAMware) reported@sbilstein with cero to little information about origin, (im the waiting list do) the product seems to be some sort of github, right? if that is the case, a comparsion with the top one, GitHub the main issue there is the lack of incentives to collaborate with value in mind, IMO opinion the lack is $ return and the naive sponsorship attempt, is.... vague. one think is open knowledge, another is not getting the return one deserves for their contribution, you see where im going?
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دکتر مهندس فتحی (@i_sundog) reported@ofer_rubin How Evo 2's Risk Profile is Different Because of the lessons learned from global lab controversies, the researchers designing genomic AI models are trying to shift the safety focus from physical containment to computational restrictions. No Human Pathogen Data: Traditional labs work with actual physical strains of dangerous human viruses. Evo 2's creators attempted to eliminate this risk at the source by completely omitting human pathogens from the AI's training dataset. The AI literally does not know the "alphabet" required to build a virus that harms humans. Targeted Focus: The synthetic phages created by Evo 2 are biologically incapable of infecting human cells; they are structurally hardwired to only latch onto and destroy specific bacteria (E. coli). The Real Security Vulnerability: DNA Synthesis Many biosecurity experts argue that focusing entirely on the AI software is looking at the wrong problem. The bottleneck for a "bad actor" isn't getting the AI to write a dangerous sequence; it is getting a commercial laboratory to actually manufacture (print) the physical DNA. Currently, the primary defense against synthetic biology threats relies on biosecurity screening by DNA providers. Companies that synthesize DNA strings are required to screen orders against databases of known dangerous pathogens and verify the identity of the researchers ordering them. If an AI-generated sequence looks too similar to a restricted toxin or human virus, the order is flagged and blocked. To look into this deeper, we could explore how international governments are trying to regulate DNA printing companies, or discuss the current global standard for biosafety levels (BSL-1 to BSL-4). Which direction would you prefer? True Stanford University researchers developed a generative AI programme called Evo 2 that writes new genomes... They used it to design and make 16 synthetic phages, small viruses that infect bacteria., But it can learn, yes or no No. Evo 2 cannot learn on its own. Why It Cannot Learn Frozen State: It is a completed AI model. Its knowledge is permanently frozen at the moment its creators finished training it. No Real-Time Learning: It cannot adapt, pick up new skills, or change its programming based on the user prompts it receives or the DNA it generates.[1] How It Evolves Any "learning" or improvement requires human intervention. The researchers at Stanford or the Arc Institute must manually gather new genomic data, write updated code, and run a brand new training process to create an "Evo 3." Would you like to know more about how AI models are trained on DNA, or should we look at the differences between static AI and self-learning AI? Can a rouge researcher re-train it Yes, technically a rogue researcher could re-train or fine-tune it. Because the creators of Evo 2 chose to make the project fully open-source, a bad actor does not need to hack into Stanford or the Arc Institute to get it. They can freely download the full Evo 2 GitHub Repository and its raw model weights. However, doing so in secret to create a dangerous biological weapon requires overcoming two massive, real-world bottlenecks: computing power and physical manufacturing. 1. The Computing Bottleneck (The "Brain") A rogue researcher cannot simply download Evo 2 onto a standard laptop and feed it human viruses. Massive Scale: Evo 2 is a massive model with up to 40 billion parameters. Hardware Requirements: According to the official Evo 2 documentation, running or training the large versions of the model requires specialized high-performance hardware, specifically NVIDIA Hopper GPUs (like H100s). Traceability: Buying or renting a cluster of these highly regulated chips requires immense financial capital. Cloud computing platforms tightly track who is using their hardware and what algorithms they are running, making it very difficult to hide a rogue training operation.
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Yasha Podeswa (@ypodeswa) reported@github @Kimi_Moonshot @FireworksAI_HQ Nobody cares about new features when your reliability is so brutally terrible. Complete 7 hr Actions outage (and counting) today, and outages constantly in general. You guys badly need to stop feature development and fix your absolutely brutal, insanely terrible reliability.
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ninjafromqueens.base.eth 🆙 ✝️ (@Ninjafromqueens) reportedShipped this week: → Rescan any audit, get a real before/after → Fixed a false "0 contracts found" bug in GitHub project scanning → Closed a gap where rescans weren't counting against usage Security tooling that lies to you quietly is worse than tooling that's slow.
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borhen saidi (@borrhensaidi) reported@kind_technology @X github is down at the moment
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Diogo Capela (@diogocapela) reportedMy coding agent suddenly is trying to hack into GitHub to fix gh actions so he can deploy
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Ray Terrill (@Rayterrill) reportedAt this point @Github should be just giving customers back their money each month until things stabilize. The amount of pain caused by their inability to keep their core services up and running, and how much work orgs need to do to retry/fix things is absurd.
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stoby (@goonsandgeeks) reportedfailing at Github. Not fully adopting OpenAI models, the company you own a majority share of, while stuffing down useless garbage LLMs. OAI and Ant being better Word and Excel agents than you. Your only saving grace is data centers but you are worried about CF and share price..
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Astrid (@just_some_dev) reportedfor ***** sake github decided to do everything in a whack order so it built desktop first and desktop now has broken functionality AAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Jose Pozuelo (@JAPozueloM) reportedI know that GitHub can have reliability and performance issues, but it “being the only bottleneck” is an incredible lack of imagination.
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Ryan G. Cox (@RyanGCox_) reportedHow am I supposed to work with GitHub Actions down?
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Parsa Sabetz (@parsasabetz) reportedwhy @github is failing everything? is it down?
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Jason Swartz (@swartzrock) reportedOof, I hope the Github team is able to find a good resolution. Is anyone else curious why this issue didn’t appear on github pr or action pages? Seems like the outage was a bit more subtle than it could have been.
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Ali Sherief (@Zenul_Abidin) reported@kentcdodds @github How long has this error been occuring for now?
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Spicer Matthews (@spicermatthews) reportedGitHub Actions being down is almost as annoying as Claude being down.......
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There's no "I" in craftmanship (@6851cf3c) reported@nasqret > 1. New mathematical discoveries are published as repositories on GitHub. Bad timing since Github seems to be more down than up these days (whether it's LLM code or Azure migration to blame I don't know).
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Matthias (@MatthiasWagner) reportedDon't bother....github is still down
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Dr. Papa Crouz. (@signifec) reportedIt's too much ridiculous that the repository is still not have been taking down. @github
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Nikoemme (@Nikomatt69) reported@github fix actions guys , no actions no party
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Max S (@CaffeinaitedMax) reportedAnother day, another @github outage