GitHub Availability Report: November 2025

In November, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. November 17 16:52 UTC (lasting 2 hours and 16 minutes) On November 17, 2025, from 16:52 to 19:08 UTC, Dependabot was hitting a rate limit in GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) and was unable to complete about 57% of jobs within SLO.  […]

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The AI ick – Stack Overflow

[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year. Please enjoy our favorite work this year and we’ll see you in 2026.] “We shouldn’t be using ChatGPT for this,” said my colleague, glancing at the draft […]

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The new ChatGPT Images is here

The new ChatGPT Images is here. OpenAI shipped an update to their ChatGPT Images feature – the feature that gained them 100 million new users in a week when they first launched it back in March, but has since been eclipsed by Google’s Nano Banana and then further by Nana Banana Pro in November. The […]

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How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy — Smashing Magazine

Lead your organization’s AI strategy before someone else defines it for you. A practical framework for UX professionals to shape AI implementation. Your senior management is excited about AI. They’ve read the articles, attended the webinars, and seen the demos. They’re convinced that AI will transform your organization, boost productivity, and give you a competitive […]

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Motherboard, CPU, and RAM bundle deal for $629.99 makes it feel like there’s no memory shortage — nearly $240 in savings

The memory shortage has got many PC builders and enthusiasts hurting for RAM, but Newegg is offering this $629.99 deal with an Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF processor, an ASRock Z890 Pro RS motherboard, and, more importantly, a 32GB (2x16GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 RAM. The retailer is giving a 27% discount for all three […]

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UK Law Enforcement Pushed Hard To Maintain Access To Deeply Flawed Facial Recognition Tech

from the but-the-good-stuff-works-too-well! dept While each iteration presents a chance to improve, there are some very real reasons why facial recognition tech will do a bit of stagnating. And that reason is the biggest market for this tech: law enforcement agencies. In 2019, the US National Institute for Science and Technology studied 189 different facial […]

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