The brokerage says it saw “record-breaking traffic.”

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GitHub caught off guard by customers actually using the AI being evangelized

GitHub has been struggling with service availability in recent months as traffic on the platform has surged, driven in large part by AI-assisted coding and agentic development workflows. The code-sharing site has been trying to address those issues by expanding capacity and migrating more workloads to Azure infrastructure, but reliability remains uneven.

In the May 2026 GitHub Availability Report, GitHub acknowledges nine incidents that degraded performance, one fewer than its April report.

That’s something. But Jakub Oleksy, SVP of software engineering at GitHub, says there’s more to be done.

“We are making structural changes that permanently remove failure modes,” he said in the report. “We acknowledge that we have work to do, but we’re committed to getting it done and making GitHub reliable when and where you need it.”

Microsoft’s code hosting site also briefly halted new Copilot subscriptions to reduce the cost impact of its AI services and to adjust its Copilot pricing to account for shifting model provider policies.

As noted in an April post, GitHub had planned to increase its capacity by 10x back in October 2025, but by February 2026 it had become evident that a 30x expansion would be needed to accommodate the surge of pull requests, commits, and new repos.

Last year, GitHub reportedly handled 1 billion commits for the entire year. Now it receives 1.4 billion commits every month.

“We’re now serving 40 percent of monolith traffic from Azure (up from 8 percent in February), with Git traffic at 30 percent and repository replication at 99 percent,” said Oleksy. “We’ve more than doubled our effective capacity in four months.”

Oleksy notes that efforts to isolate GitHub’s primary database cluster by moving users, authentication, and authorization into separate domains should prevent failures that cascade across the system.

That hasn’t quite solved GitHub’s ongoing availability challenges, in part because Azure has also confronted capacity problems recently. There were nine incidents in May compared to 10 incidents in April. And June is on pace for a similar number.

The Missing GitHub Status Page, an unofficial project to track GitHub service problems, counts 12 incidents in May and reports uptime over the past 90 days at 87.26 percent. By month, the project puts GitHub availability at 78.33 percent in April, 93.86 percent in May, and 88.39 percent for June so far.

GitHub’s Official Status Page presents a far more flattering view of availability, with uptime figures mostly around 99.9 percent for the listed services.

These figures depend upon what gets counted and the duration of the disruption. GitHub’s own incident history page cites 26 incidents in April, 23 in May, and 12 to date in June.  ®

“While several organizations successfully blocked the activity or remediated the vulnerabilities, others experienced compromise, resulting in stolen data being published on the ShinyHunters DLS,” Mandiant said. (DLS is short for data leak site.)

An analysis of a bash script left in the staging environment shows the attackers performed reconnaissance on compromised organizations, including mapping the PeopleSoft configurations, viewing process scheduler, and WebLogic server XML configurations. Eventually, the threat actors established an outbound SSH connection to 176.120.22.24, the IP address hosting ShinyHunters’ DLS. The stolen data was first compressed using the zstd tool. The DLS claimed to have recovered 48GB of data from a single victim.

A partially redacted section of the ShinyHunters’ DLS.

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ShinyHunters has been active since at least 2019. Over the past several years, it has executed scores of hacks against some of the world’s largest companies, affecting millions of people downstream. A small sample of victims includes Ticketmaster (through the breach of Snowflake, which hosted the data), Spain’s biggest bank, Santander, and Salesforce (and, through it, Google and, reportedly, many other companies). ShinyHunters uses various techniques to gain initial access, including exploiting cloud misconfigurations and software vulnerabilities, stealing OAuth tokens, supply chain attacks, voice phishing, and other forms of social engineering.

Mandiant and Rapid7 are providing detailed indicators of compromise. They are also advising PeopleSoft customers on the steps they should take immediately. Given ShinyHunters’ success rate, all PeopleSoft users would do well to heed the calls.

Eighty residents of towns near SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company’s constant rocket launches are physically destroying their homes. The lawsuit accuses SpaceX of negligence, gross negligence, and trespass based on the Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984.

One plaintiff showed Reuters her home in Port Isabel, less than six miles from Starbase. Cabinets no longer sit evenly. Doors will not close. Flooring warped after a waterline burst during a launch. She estimates $100,000 in foundation repairs, more than the home is currently worth. “They’re wanting to get to Mars,” she said. “But what about us that are here?”

The lawsuit alleges damage from 11 Starship test flights conducted between April 2023 and October 2025. Sonic booms, vibrations, and overpressure waves cracked walls, shattered windows, damaged roofs, and broke foundations across dozens of households in Port Isabel, Laguna Vista, and South Padre Island.

The economic pressure extends beyond structural damage. The influx of SpaceX money has doubled housing costs in Cameron County. Average home prices rose from $131,000 in 2014 to over $281,000 in 2026, according to Moneywise. For the poor and working-class communities that were there first, the combination of physical damage and inflated costs is squeezing them out.

SpaceX built Starbase as a company town for its 22,000 employees, complete with subsidised housing, a corporate medical clinic, and an employee-only gastropub. But the benefits stay inside the perimeter. Outside it, locals have lost access to Boca Chica Beach, a free public beach that was, as one resident told ABC, “a poor man’s beach” where families gathered without paying anything. SpaceX’s operations have made it largely inaccessible.

The timing is notable. The lawsuit was filed weeks before SpaceX’s record $75 billion IPO, which debuted Friday at a $2 trillion valuation. The company’s S-1 filing valued its total addressable market at $28.5 trillion. The 80 plaintiffs are asking for compensation for homes that are, in some cases, worth less than it costs to fix them.

The Commercial Space Launch Act gives the Secretary of Transportation power to terminate or suspend launches if they are “detrimental to the public health and safety.” No such action has been taken. SpaceX’s IPO prospectus disclosed regulatory risks but did not specifically address the class-action lawsuit or the structural damage claims.

The case echoes the growing resistance to tech infrastructure across the United States. Whether it is data centres straining power grids or rockets cracking foundations, the pattern is the same: the communities absorbing the physical costs of the tech industry’s ambitions are organising, and they are no longer willing to absorb them quietly.

It takes significant upskilling to stay abreast of changes along the Industry 4.0 career path, but courses don’t have to cost an arm, a leg and all of your time.

Regardless of the industry you find yourself in, the majority of professionals will at some stage in their career find themselves in need of new skills. Online courses are a key way to upskill in a cost-effective, timely manner that suits the individual.

When it comes to Industry 4.0 specifically, there are a wide range of career routes to choose from – be it a role in AI, machine learning, supply chains, manufacturing or sustainability, just to name a few. With that level of choice comes a plethora of opportunities to learn new skills, broaden your career horizons and even make a real-world impact in a space that has near endless potential. 

So, for professionals working in Industry 4.0 careers, what courses are worth taking a look at?

Robotics and automation

Robotics and automation are a core pillar of Industry 4.0, as more and more of the processes and technologies within the workplace are powered by advanced tech and AI. Skills in robotics and automation are absolutely essential for jobseekers and established professionals aiming for career longevity.

With that in mind, edtech Udemy has multiple free and fee paying options on the subject of robotics. Courses include a free Mechanisms and Motion Robotics Focus tutorial, which takes roughly five hours to complete, has downloadable materials and can be accessed when needed. The course is designed for students interested in 3D CAD design, mechanical engineering and robotics.

For beginners, there is also a free two-hour Robotics Introductory Course that provides a comprehensive foundation for beginners, hobbyists and professionals alike. The course offers opportunities for hands-on learning that covers everything you need to know ahead of building and programming robots. This will include the fundamentals of robotics, basic electronics, programming languages and the robot operating system. 

Coursera also has interesting options open to professionals, including a Generative AI Automation Specialisation course from Vanderbilt University. The programme offers a free trial, takes four weeks to complete and comes with a certificate of completion. There is also a Fundamentals of Robotics & Industrial Automation course available, that will take around a week to complete, consists of three modules and aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of essential concepts and practical skills.

Smart manufacturing

Similar to robotics and automation, smart manufacturing is a defining feature of Industry 4.0 and skills in this area are a must.

For those at an intermediate level, Coursera has a Digital Manufacturing: Introduction and Smart Design course. The programme takes eight hours to complete, can be engaged with flexibly and consists of three modules. It also comes with a sharable certificate upon completion of the course. Created for mechanical, manufacturing and mechatronics engineers, the course is intended for those who want to comprehend and navigate the transformative concepts and technologies that shape modern industry. Participants will learn about the fundamental principles of digital manufacturing, the path to Industry 4.0 and emerging technology.

Springboard+ and Chevron College are offering a level 9 post-graduate microcredential course on smart factories. The part-time programme is funded by the Micro-credential Learner Fee Subsidy 2026 programme and fees will be subsidised at 80pc for all eligible learner categories – criteria for eligibility are available on the website. The programme will introduce learners to modern and emerging developments in manufacturing engineering, with a focus on the digital technologies powering smart factories and connected production systems. Core topics include digital twins, simulations, smart sensors, artificial intelligence, IoT, robotics, machine learning and virtual reality, covering their applications and deployment in manufacturing. 

Additive manufacturing

3D printing or additive manufacturing skills are highly relevant for Industry 4.0 careers and there are plenty of upskilling opportunities available to professionals and jobseekers. Learning platform Alison is hosting a future of additive manufacturing technologies course – published by Indian platform The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning – that is free, takes three to four hours and is CPD accredited. Intermediate level students will learn how to explain the objectives of machine intelligence, break down the features of blockchain technology, define additive manufacturing, outline the categories, describe the process chain, analyse the design for additive manufacturing and discuss the supply chain.

Coursera have similar paid and free trial programmes, such as Additive Manufacturing offered by University of Arizona, Essentials of Additive Manufacturing offered by the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, and Aerospace 3D Printing Additive Manufacturing, among others. 

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The new fab marks a win for the EU in its attempts to improve the bloc’s chipmaking capacity.

Global semiconductor company Infineon Technologies is set to open a new €5bn chip factory in Germany, extending its existing campus in Dresden.

The factory represents Infineon’s single largest investment, according to Bloomberg, and was built with support from European Union subsidies. The Smart Power Fab will be opening doors on 2 July.

EU support for Infineon is part of a strong effort aimed at honing the bloc’s chipmaking capabilities and improving resilience to foreign pressures on the industry. Last year, the European Commission approved a direct grant of up to €920m for Infineon to support its investment in Dresden.

The fab also received support under a different programme aimed at supporting common European interests on microelectronics and communication technologies. The company said that the total funding for the newly expanded Dresden site amounts to around €1bn.

The new “first-of-a-kind” European plant will produce two types of semiconductor technologies to be used in industrial, automotive and consumer applications, according to the Commission.

Infineon claimed that the development will create up to 1,000 new jobs, aside from jobs created in the investment ecosystem.

“The AI data centres currently being built and planned around the world will consume twice as much electricity in 2030 as they do today,” Alesander Gorski, Infineon’s chief operating officer, told media at a walk-through of the site. “That’s as much as the entire Federal Republic of Germany.”

Chip production at the fab will be scaled over a period of time depending on demand, Gorski said, adding that it could potentially add as much as €5bn in revenue every year.

The Smart Power Fab is a welcome success for the EU, coming less than a year after Intel scrapped plans for a chip factory in Germany and an assembling and testing facility in Poland.

Earlier this year, Infineon opened a new Cork-based R&D centre focused on its newest innovations in the automotive and consumer microelectronics space, in areas such as battery management, motor control and touchscreens.

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