GitHub news and practice: Microsoft ownership, Copilot, outages, Actions and the npm and supply-chain ecosystem around it.
A pull request checkout, a poisoned GitHub Actions cache, and an OIDC token pulled straight out of runner memory. That's how 84 malicious versions of TanStack's packages hit npm in six minutes.
Linus built Git in 10 days. GitHub became where open source lives. Then Microsoft paid $7.5B, killed Atom, trained Copilot on your code, corrupted main branches with a merge queue bug, and folded the whole thing into CoreAI. Here's the full story.
ChatGPT. Claude. GitHub. All of them went down — repeatedly — and it's not a coincidence. AI agents are generating traffic at a scale human developers never could, and the infrastructure holding up your entire dev workflow was never designed for this.
ChatGPT went down 28,000-report strong in February 2026. Claude had back-to-back outages within 24 hours in March. GitHub logged 37 incidents in a single month and is running at 90.21% uptime — one nine, not three. AI agents aren't just using infrastructure.
Microsoft gave OpenAI $13 billion and exclusive cloud access. OpenAI took the money, restructured itself into a for-profit company, handed a $50 billion deal to Amazon instead, and is now building a competitor to GitHub. This is what a corporate backstab looks like in slow motion.
OpenAI is building a GitHub competitor — a technical breakdown of Git internals, version control history, and what this move signals about OpenAI's strategy.
Git tracks every change to every file in your codebase, lets multiple developers work simultaneously without overwriting each other, and gives you a complete history you can rewind to any point. It is the foundation of modern software development. Here is how it actually works.
