outages

Cloudflare Outage Takes Down Huge Chunk of the Internet, Slowly Coming Back Online

Amazon, X, Spotify, ChatGPT, Grindr, Canva, and many more are struggling to stay online.

Yes, Google Meet Is Down

"Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue."

AT&T Says It Will Now Credit You for Outages and Long Customer Service Wait Times

It is part of an effort by the company to improve its customer service.

It’s Not Just You, AWS Is Down Right Now

Amazon Web Services—or just AWS, for short—suffered a massive outage on Wednesday that left a ton of apps, sites, and connected devices relying on the hosting giant completely in the dark. Amazon’s status page and the popular site Downdetector both point to the outage happening around 10:00 am. Since then, countless apps, sites and connected…

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…

Zoom Is Down at the Worst Possible Time [Update: It’s Back]

The same day that many schools are back in session, Zoom, the teleconferencing software that’s become the go-to for many educators’ remote-teaching needs for the foreseeable future, seems to have crashed for large swaths of the US. While Zoom’s own Twitter account hasn’t mentioned the widespread outages thus far, Zoomers across the country have posted…

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,…

Huge Power Outage Hits NYC on Anniversary of Infamous 1977 Blackout

Saturday is the 42nd anniversary of the July 13-14, 1977 New York City blackout, which took out power to most of the city, resulted in widespread civil disturbances and looting, and helped usher in an era of noxious “tough on crime” politics. Another blackout struck NYC today, though this one appears to be restricted to…

Slack Goes Wonky, Gives Millions the Day Off

If you woke up Friday morning, logged into Slack, only to find it a hellhole of bugs—it’s not just you. Users all over the world have been reporting outages, repeating messages, and errors with the popular workplace communication tool. According to Slack’s System Status page, what we’re all experiencing is “degraded service affecting multiple features.”…

Japanese High-Speed Rail Line Was Brought to Standstill by Tiny Slug That Fried on Power Cable

Japanese rail company JR Kyushu says that one small slug was responsible for a power outage and subsequent delays for an estimated 12,000 commuters on a high-speed rail line in Kyushu on May 30, CNN reported on Monday. Some 26 separate trains were canceled at around 9:40 a.m. local time due to the power outages,…

Relatable: Facebook’s ‘Family of Apps’ Is Struggling Today

Facebook is down! For some people, anyway. So are Instagram and other platforms in the “Facebook family of apps,” news the company communicated on Twitter, a different social media platform that is currently loading. Soak in the sense of freedom while it lasts. Update: Still walking it off. Update: Virtual reality also mildly bricked.

Widespread 911 Outage Sparks FCC Investigation Into CenturyLink

A CenturyLink outage that started on Thursday has left customers across the country without internet and shut down vital services including 911 emergency calls. And now the federal government is launching an investigation. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced on Twitter on Friday morning that he’s instructed the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security…

We’re Free! [Updated]

On Monday afternoon, Facebook made it clear that it’s listening more intently to users’ desires than ever before. At the time of writing, the social media network is down for at least some users. And there’s a calm over the internet that hasn’t been felt in more than a decade. Update 3:45pm ET: Nevermind, it’s…

Amazon Just Broke the Internet

A little after 1pm on Tuesday, countless websites and web services ground to a halt following a reported widespread outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Everything from Slack to Quora to your own beloved Gizmodo saw major disruptions. Before Down Detector itself went down, the site showed outages on the tier 1 network Level3 in…

National Weather Service Data System Went Down During a Blizzard This Week

The National Weather Service warns us about potentially dangerous weather, so it would be pretty scary if their highly reliable data analysis and warning system, the one they use to disseminate all their predictions, went down. It went down. Both the primary and backup routers at the National Weather Service’s Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System…

Verizon Customers Are Saying They Can’t Send Texts to Other Networks [Updated]

Tuesday evening, multiple Verizon cellphone users began reporting that they were unable to transmit text messages between their phones and numbers associated with other carriers. The reason why was not immediately clear. On Twitter and Reddit, customers in at least half a dozen states complained of texts to or from other networks either not sending…

If You Live in the Southeast, Has Your Cell Phone Stopped Working? 

We’re getting a lot of tips about a widespread cellular coverage outage in the southeast for AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon customers. Local news stationsare reportinglarge outages in Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville in Tennessee, as well as parts of Alabama and Kentucky. Sprint has confirmed that it’s experiencing problems in Kentucky: We are aware of impacts…

How Will We Find Out What Our Friends Are Eating?!

Looks Like Facebook Is Broken Right Now (Updated: It’s Back!)

Monday morning got off to a rough start for Facebook, where users reported widespread difficulty updating their status, liking and commenting on posts. The extent of the outage is so far unclear, but if Twitter whining is any indication, it’s affecting just about everybody worldwide. We tried posting on Facebook ourselves with no luck. Luckily…

Syria Dropped Off the Face of the Internet Again

Last week, Syria completely disappeared from the Internet, and not for the first time either. Since then, it poked its head back out into cyberspace, but not for long; Google’s Transparency Report is showing that it’s gone again. https://gizmodo.com/syria-is-completely-cut-off-from-the-internet-again-494724786 What’s going on over there is anyone’s guess. According to Renesys chief technology officer James Cowie,…