GitHub will use interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve AI models starting April 24, unless users opt out. Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users are not impacted by this policy change.

GitHub is currently experiencing significant availability issues, with outages affecting Actions, pull requests, notifications, and Copilot. The platform has reported problems with "some GitHub services" as of February 9.

Glassworm malware has re-emerged, compromising over 150 GitHub repositories, npm, and VS Code through the use of hidden Unicode characters. This resurgence follows previous activity traced back to the same threat actor, highlighting ongoing vulnerabilities in these platforms.

The incident with Copilot and Actions has been resolved, with all services recovering and operating normally. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared when available.

All services, including Actions, Codespaces, Git Operations, Issues, Packages, Pages, Pull Requests, and Webhooks, are operating normally. A detailed root cause analysis of the incident will be shared when available.