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Great, Now the PlayStation Network Is Down Too
This has been a rough week for anyone trying to play games online. Sony’s PlayStation Network began experiencing issues Friday afternoon, and the outage seems to have persisted into the weekend based on the PSN status page. The outage comes just one day after the equivalent service for Sony’s competitor Microsoft, Xbox Live, went down … Continued
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Uh Oh, Here’s Why the Internet Broke Again
Widespread internet outages knocked down Cloudflare, the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Amazon, Hulu, and a slew of other sites on Sunday morning, and it’s apparently all because of a single internet service provider: CenturyLink. Given that Cloudflare’s online security services are designed to keep websites up and running, when it went down, so did dozens … Continued
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This Is Why Half the Internet Shut Down Today
Scores of websites and services went down Friday afternoon due to problems with Cloudflare’s DNS service, sparking rampant speculation about the cause. After all, a global DDOS attack would totally fit the real-life apocalypse movie that 2020 is increasingly turning into. The outage, which started shortly after 5 p.m. ET, brought down popular sites and … Continued
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Facebook Kicks Off Friday by Fucking Up Numerous iOS Apps
A major Facebook fuckup crashed numerous iOS apps that rely on its framework for various purposes throughout Friday morning. Per The Next Web, the affected applications include everything from Spotify and Pinterest to Venmo, Tinder, Apple’s App Store, and even competing social media services like Twitter. It appears to have been resolved, though the screwup … Continued
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Stock Trading App Robinhood Experiences Widespread Outages Right During Market Rally
Free stock trading app Robinhood, valued in July 2019 at over $7.6 billion, underwent a major outage on Monday amid a major rally on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Per TechCrunch, the error resulted in numerous users being locked out of their accounts and unable to trade using the service throughout the day. “We started … Continued
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Google Drive Is Down for Some of You
Google Drive and Google Docs are down…at least for some people. According to Downdetector, the popular cloud service and software suite appeared to crater out of existence at 12:57pm Eastern Standard Time today. However, for some people, it came back relatively swiftly. By 1:25pm some Google account holders reported having access again. Including this blogger, … Continued
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It’s Not Just You: Twitter and Tweetdeck Still Experiencing Technical Problems Around the World
Twitter and Tweetdeck started experiencing outages overnight and the problem is persisting into the morning hours of Wednesday, according to multiple reports from around the world. The social media giant has been struggling with outages in every corner of the globe for over seven hours and there’s no word when things will improve. Various users … Continued
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Twitter Is Down, Which Must Be Why No One’s Liking My Sick Tweet [Updated: It’s Back]
Continuing the summer of site outages… Twitter is now down. Both the mobile and web-based versions of Twitter are failing to load tweets, or even show like and retweet notifications. As we noted this morning when Reddit went down, outages like this have been annoyingly frequent in recent weeks. Major web services and sites have … Continued
By Alex Cranz