What Happened On August 6, 2026 at 15:22 UTC, GitHub began investigating degraded performance in Actions. What followed was one of the more consequential CI/CD incidents in recent memory: a 10-hour-42-minute outage that wasn’t fully resolved until 02:04 UTC on…
When Everything Looks Fine but Nothing Works It started with a Slack message from our sales lead: “Hey, a client says they never got my quote. Third one this week.” We didn’t think much of it at first — email…
What Is SELinux? SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) is a mandatory access control (MAC) security mechanism built into the Linux kernel. Originally developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and released to the open-source community in 2000, it is now maintained…
Creating a polished video usually requires several tools: a script editor, design software, animation software, a timeline editor, and an export tool. Codex can simplify this process by helping you plan the video, create the visual project, organize media, revise…
Cloud-init 26.2 was released on July 29, 2026, following roughly five months of development. The release includes contributions from 36 developers and fixes 18 reported issues, with most improvements focused on networking, cloud-platform compatibility, and security. One of the most…
Kubernetes v1.37 is scheduled to land on Wednesday, August 26, 2026. As with every release, this one trims away legacy behavior, tightens security defaults, and promotes several long-running features to maturity. Here’s a concise but detailed walkthrough of the changes…
The latest DBeaver release, version 26.1.3, is now available. Released on July 20, 2026, this maintenance update delivers AI enhancements, usability improvements, and a wide range of fixes across supported database platforms. On the AI side, a new Preferences option…
Google announced today that NotebookLM, its AI-powered research tool, is being renamed Gemini Notebook. The move drops the awkward “language model” suffix and explicitly folds the product into Google’s flagship Gemini brand — while promising deeper capabilities and a broader…
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has once again drawn a firm line: the Linux kernel is not an anti-AI project, and he’s willing to “put my foot down as the top-level maintainer” to defend developers who want to use AI tools.…
GitHub’s June 2026 update for Copilot in Visual Studio is here — clearer usage tracking, a new security layer for MCP servers, and the first C++ scenarios of the modernization agent hitting general availability. Here’s the rundown. Usage Tracking and…
