{
  "id": 1501783,
  "title": "Microsoft says GitHub is down worldwide, with its website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services impacted; GitHub confirmed the outage at 13:40 UTC (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/microsoft-says-github-is-down-worldwide-with-its-website-api-actions",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-17T14:55:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Dev.to",
        "title": "Daily Dose of DevOps — GitHub Actions basics for DevOps",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/daily-dose-of-devops-github-actions-basics-for-devops",
        "published": "2026-08-15T07:24:42.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}