#Facebook and Instagram users hit with outages — again

#Facebook and Instagram users hit with outages — again

“#Facebook and Instagram users hit with outages — again” Facebook and Instagram were hit with a second wave of outages on Friday afternoon — just days after the services went down for hours on Monday. Reps for Facebook said Friday’s outage had been resolved and the company’s networks were “back to 100 percent” shortly after…

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#Fastly stock soars after ‘nightmare’ outage takes down sites

#Fastly stock soars after ‘nightmare’ outage takes down sites

“#Fastly stock soars after ‘nightmare’ outage takes down sites” Shares of cloud-computing company Fastly are up more than 12 percent since the company’s high-profile glitch took down many of the world’s most popular websites yesterday morning.  For about an hour on Tuesday, many internet users were unable to access Google, Reddit, Twitter, Spotify and thousands…

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#Robinhood slammed over crypto outage during Dogecoin surge

#Robinhood slammed over crypto outage during Dogecoin surge

“#Robinhood slammed over crypto outage during Dogecoin surge” Robinhood traders slammed the investing app after its cryptocurrency platform suffered a major outage right in the middle of Dogecoin’s record-setting rally. Robinhood said its crypto trading service started going haywire by 10 p.m. Thursday — just as the price of the meme-inspired currency started spiking. The…

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#Is Verizon Fios down? Internet outage spanning Northeastern US

#Is Verizon Fios down? Internet outage spanning Northeastern US

“#Is Verizon Fios down? Internet outage spanning Northeastern US” Verizon Fios customers across the Northeast suffered from slow and spotty internet service during an apparent outage on Tuesday. More than 21,000 users in New York City, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other major East Coast cities said they had trouble loading webpages and experienced slow upload and…

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#Outage knocks out service on 2021’s first workday

#Outage knocks out service on 2021’s first workday

“#Outage knocks out service on 2021’s first workday” Slack is slacking. The workplace chat service suffered a massive outage on Monday — prompting both frustration and celebration among workers who rely on it. The outage stopped users from logging in, sending messages and loading group chats known as channels, according to Slack’s public outage dashboard….

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#Gmail, YouTube outage: Users report problems worldwide

#Gmail, YouTube outage: Users report problems worldwide

“#Gmail, YouTube outage: Users report problems worldwide” Gmail, YouTube and other Google productivity services suffered a massive outage Monday morning. Thousands of users around the world had reported problems with Gmail and YouTube by about 7:20 a.m., according to outage-tracking website Downdetector. Other Google Workspace services such as Google Calendar, Google Drive and the Google…

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#Amazon’s cloud service experiencing widespread outage

#Amazon’s cloud service experiencing widespread outage

“#Amazon’s cloud service experiencing widespread outage” Amazon’s widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services, is experiencing a large-scale outage, the company said Wednesday, affecting users ranging from websites to software providers. It has also affected the ability to post updates to its service health dashboard, the company said. “Kinesis has been experiencing increased error rates…

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#Microsoft Outlook outage affects email users worldwide

#Microsoft Outlook outage affects email users worldwide

“#Microsoft Outlook outage affects email users worldwide” Microsoft Outlook suffered its second major outage this week on Thursday morning as people around the world had trouble using the email platform for more than four hours. The outage, which Microsoft confirmed around 2 a.m. Eastern time, was preventing users from accessing email accounts over the internet…

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