GitHub was degraded for seven hours and forty-seven minutes on August 17. Most of the site came back in about three hours. Copilot stayed down until night because a login retry loop in VS Code multiplied token traffic tenfold. Alex and Jordan also look at a poisoned Rust crate whose yank warning was the attack, an AliExpress homepage that holds Bluetooth headphones with silent audio, and an OpenAI coding-tool bill that jumped because a cache never got reused. The side of tech news nobody talks about.

Hosts: Alex & Jordan

Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about.

Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York

Episode date: 2026-08-21

In this episode

• GitHub August 17 outage — Capacity on the blog. A sidecar limit and a Copilot retry ...