GitHub Availability Report: December 2025

In December, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.  December 08 19:51 UTC (lasting 1 hour and 15 minutes) Between November 26, 2025, at 02:24 UTC and December 8, 2025 at 20:26 UTC, enterprise administrators experienced a disruption when viewing agent session activities in the Enterprise AI Controls page. During […]

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8 lessons from tech leadership on scaling teams and AI

It’s been nearly a year since we launched Leaders of Code, a segment on the Stack Overflow Podcast where we curate candid, illuminating, and (dare we say) inspiring conversations between senior engineering leaders. An impressive roster of guests from organizations like Google, Cloudflare, GitLab, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and more joined members of our senior […]

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Asset allocation quilt – the winners and losers of the last 10 years

Duvet day at Monevator as we update our asset allocation quilt with another year’s worth of returns. The resulting patchwork reveals the fluctuating fortunes of the major asset classes across a decade, and invites a question… Could you predict the winners and losers from one year to the next? Asset allocation quilt 2025 Data from […]

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Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet

Since Donald Trump returned to the White House last January, the biggest names in tech have mostly fallen in line with the new regime, attending dinners with officials, heaping praise upon the administration, presenting the president with lavish gifts, and pleading for Trump’s permission to sell their products to China. It’s been mostly business as […]

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Verizon is down nationwide | The Verge

The first big outage of 2026 is here, as Verizon customers across the US, including several of our phones, complain that service has been spotty or nonexistent starting at around noon ET, with phones switching to SOS Mode and being unable to connect. This cell service outage follows a “software issue” that cut off service […]

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App downloads declined again in 2025, but consumer spending soared to nearly $156B

The subscription economy helped boost mobile app revenues in 2025, even as app downloads declined for the fifth consecutive year, according to app intelligence firm Appfigures‘ annual report. In 2025, global downloads of all mobile apps and mobile games via the App Store and Google Play reached an estimated 106.9 billion, 2.7% lower than the […]

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C. Thi Nguyen: Enjoyment in activities shouldn’t be sacrificed for efficiency, the distinction between games and practical tasks is crucial, and social media’s gamification misrepresents engagement

Home » Podcast Notes » C. Thi Nguyen: Enjoyment in activities shouldn’t be sacrificed for efficiency, the distinction between games and practical tasks is crucial, and social media’s gamification misrepresents engagement | Bankless Share this article Key takeaways Enjoyment in activities should not be sacrificed for efficiency or higher scores. Games are defined by voluntarily […]

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U.S. posts official H200 and MI325X AI GPU export rules to China, but with plenty of caveats — a string of requirments greatly limits the total number of GPUs that can be shipped to China

The U.S. Department of Commerce has unveiled new export rules for shipments of advanced AI and HPC processors designed in America to China and Macau. However, while the new rules permit limited exports of specific accelerators — most notably AMD’s Instinct MI325X, Nvidia’s H200, and comparable lower-performance products — on a case-by-case basis, licenses are […]

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Data reveals the new “sweet spot” for crypto in your portfolio as financial advisors flip aggressive on Bitcoin

Financial advisors held crypto allocations below 1% for years, treating Bitcoin as a speculative footnote rather than a portfolio component. That era is ending. According to Bitwise and VettaFi’s 2026 benchmark survey, 47% of advisor portfolios with crypto exposure now allocate more than 2%, while 83% cap exposure below 5%. The distribution tells a more […]

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