AI is now taking over game servers, and Stormgate is the first casualty
AI workloads are competing with games for the same cloud infrastructure
Amazon says AWS AI tools were involved in two outages, but calls it "coincidence"
Engineers question the wisdom of granting autonomy to coding agents
Microsoft 365's latest outage is a reminder that the cloud isn't always there
Users report Microsoft 365 "goes down multiple times a year"
Facepalm: Since launching Windows 365 in 2021, Microsoft has aggressively promoted its cloud PC subscription service, some say to the detriment of local computing. However, recent outages have illustrated the new risks that arise when users and businesses offload their software and files to external servers. Is Windows 365 reliable enough to become a pillar of IT?
It's not you: Gmail is glitching this weekend, and spam filters are slipping
Users report 10+ minute delivery delays and a flood of unscanned junk landing in inboxes
What just happened? Gmail is having one of those mornings, the kind where the world's default email client suddenly feels like it's running on dial-up and forgot how to spot obvious junk mail. Users are reporting delays in email delivery and warnings that some messages haven't been scanned for spam, letting junk (and potentially worse) slip into inboxes.
Robotaxis can drive themselves, but still pay humans $20 to close the door
Door glitches and power outages are creating a new kind of gig work
TL;DR: For all the talk of self-driving cars erasing human labor, hundreds of Waymo vehicles across LA and San Francisco are proving the opposite. The company's robotaxis depend on people – some paid through a towing app called Honk, others working behind computer screens – to handle simple physical tasks that the machines can't manage on their own.
Waymo's robotaxis froze when San Francisco's traffic lights went dark
Autonomous vehicles stalled at intersections when traffic signals went dark, forcing the company to pause city operations
And so this is how a tiny Cloudflare update broke huge chunks of the internet
A faulty file caused Cloudflare's worst outage in six years, taking us with it
Amazon reveals a single point of failure brought down AWS taking thousands of services with it
Regulators increasingly view AWS and its peers as critical systems requiring stronger safeguards
Thieves cut fiber lines in failed copper theft, causing Spectrum outage
More thefts linked to rising copper prices, say telecoms
AT&T offers customers bill credits for network outages with new guarantee
Spectrum announced a similar offer last year
Sky Glass customers fume as widespread outage leaves TVs non-functional for days
Hundreds have been staring at blank screens since Thursday
US mobile customers are suffering from roaming outages, third-party provider Syniverse is to blame
The company in question is "very sorry" and working hard to solve the unspecified issue
T-Mobile's Home Internet Backup keeps ISP customers connected during outages
An alternative for your phone's hotspot during service blips
Hackers damaged over 600,000 routers last year that belonged to a single ISP
An unusually destructive cyber-attack with an unknown purpose
AT&T wireless service outage is impacting many US customers
Emergency service connectivity seems to be down or disrupted as well
This is how much each minute of internet downtime would cost tech giants and different countries
Illustrating our reliance on the internet
Two Singapore banks were unable to process transactions because of an overheating data center
Backup plans were moot -- is a digital-only approach to banking dangerous?
Numerous Instagram users report account suspensions after morning outage
Others say their accounts appear to be deleted completely or their follower numbers are wrong
App outage leaves Tesla owners stranded, unable to start their vehicles
Tesla software failure reminds customers not to rely solely on the mobile app
Major internet connectivity issues hit regions in northeastern US
A fiber main was severed in New York
A bug in firewall systems took Cloudflare customers offline
The company is 'confident this wasn't an attack'
AT&T customers across the US lost 911 services for several hours
Service has since been restored