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GitHub Availability Report: August 2022

In August, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We’re still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in July.

Jakub Oleksy

Join us for OctogatosConf 2022

Live on September 15, 2022, with talks by industry experts in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, on topics including software development, security, technical project management, community, open source, professional development and best practices.

Andrea Griffiths

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8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot

8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot

Developers all over the world are using GitHub Copilot to help speed up their development and increase developer productivity. With GitHub Copilot available to developers everywhere, we’ve found some fun and useful examples of how developers can use GitHub Copilot for things you may not be thinking about.

Rizel Scarlett

GitHub Availability Report: August 2022

In August, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We’re still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in July.

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Join us for OctogatosConf 2022

Live on September 15, 2022, with talks by industry experts in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, on topics including software development, security, technical project management, community, open source, professional development and best practices.

Product

8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot

8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot

Developers all over the world are using GitHub Copilot to help speed up their development and increase developer productivity. With GitHub Copilot available to developers everywhere, we’ve found some fun and useful examples of how developers can use GitHub Copilot for things you may not be thinking about.

Rizel Scarlett

Security

Corrupting memory without memory corruption

In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-20186, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU kernel driver and use it to gain arbitrary kernel memory access from an untrusted app on a Pixel 6. This then allows me to gain root and disable SELinux. This vulnerability highlights the strong primitives that an attacker may gain by exploiting errors in the memory management code of GPU drivers.

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Release Radar · August 2022 EditionRelease Radar · August 2022 Edition

Release Radar · August 2022 Edition

We've been gearing up to launch GitHub Universe 2022 and our community has been launching cool projects left right and center.  These projects include everything from world-changing technology to developer…

Michelle Mannering

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GitHub Availability Report: August 2022

GitHub Availability Report: August 2022

In August, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We’re still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in July.

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