Today's Edition

Issue 25 · August 12, 2026 · Wednesday

50 stories today · 8 selected

Judged this morning — Robin's edition

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01 · The Lead — Read this first

GitHub Outages and Legal Issues

The GitHub Blog

GitHub reported a major outage affecting its Actions service, prompting a root cause analysis and plans for architectural improvements. Meanwhile, the platform is also facing a lawsuit related to its Truth Social API, which allegedly profits from preferential access to government information.

Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack

Ars Technica - All content

The rest of today

03—06

Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
Ars Technica - All content
Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI
AI | The Verge
AI and Data Management Challenges
Scientists just created female clones of male mice
MIT Technology Review

GitHub Outages and Legal Issues

Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack

Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now

Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI

AI and Data Management Challenges

Scientists just created female clones of male mice