GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services. GitHub confirmed the outage at 9:40 AM EDT on August 17, 2026, when it said it was investigating reports of performance problems affecting some of its services. The problems quickly spread […]
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A threat actor is selling employee databases allegedly stolen from the Microsoft Azure infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies after gaining access using compromised credentials. Starting July 31st, multiple posts from someone using the alias “TheHatman” advertised data dumps from major organizations, including McDonald’s, Gap Inc., Vodafone, Tata Consultancy Services, HCL Technologies, InterContinental Hotels (IHG),
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Microsoft announced that it removed the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool from Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, as well as from Windows 11 beta builds released this week. WMIC is a legacy built-in Windows command-line utility that helps interact with the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) system using text commands. This move is part of
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Microsoft says some users are experiencing issues searching in Microsoft 365 apps, including Outlook on the web, Outlook desktop, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive. According to an incident report seen by BleepingComputer and tracked under MO1456424 in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, the root cause is what Microsoft describes as a recent deployment that causes resource
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This seed is what this article grew out of: loneliness. It’s a sentiment that provoked an experiment – a human experiment, to make it sound tantalisingly risqué – about what would happen if I got people together online that didn’t play games online very often. Big Walk was the catalyst for it, an acclaimed game
A week of mood-boosting features on the brighter side of games. I’ll be honest with you though: I had no idea what to call this week. We went through Joy Week and Positivity Week and Good Vibes Week, but none really sat right. I’m not sure Optimism Week is perfect either – optimism has its
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As someone who writes for a living, you would correctly guess that I’m wholeheartedly in favour of allowing AI-generated text to be detectable and marked as such. There’s just a ridiculous amount of AI slop out there, and an “AI content” label means I don’t need to waste my time reading any of it. However,
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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Google is locking in its European soccer footprint by extending multi-year partnerships with five of the world’s biggest clubs: Arsenal, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern München, Liverpool FC, and Paris Saint-Germain. Taking on the dual role of Official Consumer AI and Official Smartphone Partner,
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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. High RAM prices have pushed many phone makers to cut corners, and the resulting rise in component costs is also forcing brands to reconsider their lineups. The latest victims of the RAM crisis could be “Ultra” flagships, with leaks now suggesting that multiple
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Uber is investing in, and partnering with, drone delivery company Zipline with the goal of making one million deliveries per day using the startup’s drones by the end of 2029. Zipline drones will make the first deliveries on the Uber Eats platform by the end of this year, the companies said on Monday. These deliveries
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