2026-08-24

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Top stories

  1. Anthropic ran a two hour 46 minute partial outage across the Claude API, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and claude.ai, and GitHub degraded Copilot's Fable model in an overlapping window it blamed on an unnamed upstream provider Anthropic had a 2:46 partial outage from 04:50 to 07:36 UTC on the Claude API, Code, Cowork and claude.ai, with overlapping Copilot degradation. confirmed Outage
  2. A paid YouTube ad delivered a fake TradingView installer that roots macOS and intercepts every HTTPS session A YouTube ad linked to a fake TradingView installer that gains root and intercepts HTTPS through a rogue CA in the System keychain. confirmed Security
  3. PostgreSQL 19 turns lock-wait logging on by default and adds per-process-type log levels, WAL full-page-image bytes, and multixact stats PostgreSQL 19 enables lock-wait logging by default, adds process-type log levels, WAL full-page-write stats and raises wraparound thresholds. developing Infrastructure
  4. LLVM 23 cuts stage2-O3 compile time by 6.75 percent, and precompiled headers cut MSVC and Clang builds of LLVM by about 45 percent LLVM 23 cuts stage2-O3 compile time by 6.75 percent, with precompiled headers cutting MSVC and Clang LLVM builds by about 45 percent. confirmed Languages

Security

  1. Zimbra's own patch post places the exploited command injection in the SNMP component, and the CISA remediation date is 2026-08-24 Zimbra's patch identifies CVE-2026-73570 as SNMP monitoring command injection, with the CISA remediation deadline for federal agencies today. confirmed

Outages

  1. Cloudflare degraded D1, Durable Objects, and R2 in Hong Kong and Singapore for four and a half hours Cloudflare degraded D1, Durable Objects and R2 in Hong Kong and Singapore from 03:53 to 08:28 UTC with no published root cause. confirmed
  2. GitHub publishes a root cause for the 2026-08-21 SSH outage: a load-balancer defect that only fired through multiple layers, so canary testing missed it GitHub attributes the SSH outage to a load-balancer defect visible only through multiple tiers, invisible to single-tier canary testing. confirmed

Developer tools

  1. Firefox 155 beta adds QUIC version 2 and two WebAssembly proposals, and moves the captive-portal check to a new domain Firefox 155 beta adds QUIC version 2 and WebAssembly Compact Import Section and Wide Arithmetic proposals, moving captive portal check. developing
  2. GNU Emacs 31.1 released, enabling terminal mouse control by default and adding a user-lisp configuration directory and a newcomer theme GNU Emacs 31.1 enables terminal mouse control by default, adding a user-lisp configuration directory and a newcomers-presets theme. confirmed

Linux and kernel

  1. Steve French, longtime Linux SMB and CIFS maintainer, has died Steve French, longtime SMB client and CIFS maintainer, has died, with Paulo Alcantara and Namjae Jeon taking over in Linux 7.3. confirmed