Daily News Stuff 20 August 2026

Triple-Baked Balaclava Edition Top Story Microsoft GitHub says the 8-hour outage of its systems was caused by a combination of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft VS Code. (The Register) Have you tried turning it off and just leaving it like that? Tech News AI was supposed to win people over by now. It hasn't. (Tech Crunch) I'm finding it much improved over even a year ago. If it weren't for that small…