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GitHub's latest outage blamed on policy error

· Thestack · Aug. 19, 2026, 11:19 a.m.

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Summary

GitHub experienced a significant outage attributed to a procedural mistake, coinciding with the launch of Cursor's new alternative code hosting platform.

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