GitHub’s platform suffered a multi-service disruption on 9–10 February 2026 that left Actions queues stalled, pull‑request pages slow or erroring, notifications delayed by up to an hour, and parts of Copilot operating with policy propagation delays — a messy reminder that even the dominant...
Microsoft was forced into a rare series of out‑of‑band emergency patches after January’s security rollup triggered system crashes, boot failures, and application regressions that left both home users and enterprises scrambling for fixes and workarounds.
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What happened, in plain terms...
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