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Google pins weekend outage on “unexercised” feature
Google has apologised for a Cloud outage last week that knocked offline many of its own customers, saying the fault was down to a new feature that wasn’t properly tested – and promising to do better at communicating such incidents in the future. On Thursday last week, outages on status trackers like Downdetector began to suggest an issue with tens…
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Global Microsoft 365 outage disrupts Teams and Exchange services – Computerworld
Manish Rawat, analyst, TechInsights, said industry estimates suggest that IT downtime can cost mid- to large-sized enterprises between $100,000 and $500,000 per hour, depending on their sector and the criticality of operations. “For large organizations, even a brief 2–3 hour outage could result in millions in lost productivity, reputational harm, and serious operational setbacks, especially in high-stakes sectors like finance,…
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Outage not caused by security incident, data is safe
Cloudflare has confirmed that the massive service outage yesterday was not caused by a security incident and no data has been lost. The issue has been largely mitigated. It started 17:52 UTC yesterday when the Workers KV (Key-Value) system went completely offline, causing widespread service losses across multiple edge computing and AI services. Workers KV is a globally distributed, consistent key-value…
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Google links massive cloud outage to API management issue
Google says an API management issue is behind Thursday’s massive Google Cloud outage, which disrupted or brought down its services and many other online platforms. Google says the cloud outage started around 10:49 ET and ended at 3:49 ET, after causing issues for millions of users worldwide for over three hours. Besides Google Cloud, the incident also impacted Gmail, Google Calendar,…
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Is ChatGPT Down? Users Report Widespread Outage
ChatGPT is currently down and users are unable to generate a response on the ChatGPT website or app. Users report that ChatGPT is showing ‘Error in message stream’ and refusing to process any requests. OpenAI’s official status page documented the incident six hours ago, saying that the outage affects ChatGPT, Sora, and APIs. At 6:07 am PDT, OpenAI’s status page…
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Last week’s 7-hour outage caused by software flaw
American cybersecurity company SentinelOne revealed over the weekend that a software flaw triggered a seven-hour-long outage on Thursday. This massive outage affected multiple customer-facing services in what SentinelOne described as a “global service disruption.” SentinelOne acknowledged the outage in a post published Thursday, reassuring customers that their systems were still protected. “Customer endpoints are still protected at this time, but…
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A Kaiser Permanente systems outage has pharmacies relying on pen and paper
Healthcare company Kaiser Permanente is dealing with a system outage that is forcing its hospitals and pharmacies to fill out prescriptions with pen and paper — and is slowing down services at other parts of the company, too. “Kaiser Permanente is currently experiencing network interruptions, at one of our data centers, which is impacting some of our applications,” Kaiser Permanente…
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MATLAB dev confirms ransomware attack behind service outage
MathWorks, a leading developer of mathematical computing and simulation software, has revealed that a recent ransomware attack is behind an ongoing service outage. Headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, and founded in 1984, MathWorks now has over 6,500 employees in 34 offices worldwide. MathWorks develops the MATLAB numeric computing platform and the Simulink simulation, which are used by over 100,000 organizations and…
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X is back after an apparent widespread outage
X is back up for most users after what appeared to be a significant outage that spiked early this morning around 9AM ET. Global internet monitor NetBlocks posted this morning that X “has been experiencing international outages for some users for a second time in a week,” adding that the issue isn’t “related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.” Downdetector…
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X (Twitter) is down — live updates on outage
Refresh 2025-05-22T19:19:20.907Z Reports already starting to decline (Image credit: Tuminds) Perhaps it was a blip. Reports on Down Detector have started to decline down to 1800 as of this writing. Though we noticed that the search feature and trending tabs aren’t loading properly or take a couple of refreshes to load. We’re keeping an eye on things. 2025-05-22T19:11:28.070Z Down for…
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