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Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram were back up on Tuesday after a more than two-hour outage that was caused by a technical issue and impacted hundreds of thousands of users globally. The disruptions started at around 10am ET (1500 GMT), with many users saying on rival social media platform X they had been booted out of Facebook and Instagram and were unable to log in. The White House National Security Council was monitoring the incident and not aware of any specific malicious cyber activity at this time, a spokesperson said. At the peak of the outage , there were more than 550,000 reports of disruptions for Facebook and about 92,000 for Instagram, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. "Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue ... for everyone who was impacted," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X, without elaborating on the issue. Meta (META.O), opens new tab, ...

For one talkback radio caller, the first sign something was wrong with Australia's second-largest internet provider, Optus, came when her cat's wifi-powered food dispenser failed to serve breakfast at 6:10 a.m. and her Pet woke her. For disability pensioner Chris Rogers, who needs painkillers for a knee injury that prevents him from working, the problem became apparent when he drove 30 minutes to the pharmacist and his electronic prescription could not be filled. "Because of the outage it won't load," Rogers told Reuters while he was waiting at the pharmacist for the internet to return. "Reception is flat out. It's crazy, I've never seen such chaos." For millions of Australians who could not pay for goods, book rides, get medical care or even make phone calls, a nine-hour near-total service blackout from the company which provides 40% of the country's internet became a lesson in the risks of a society that has moved almost entir...

A Google service relied upon by many large websites to sell and display ads was down for about three hours Thursday, denying major news publishers revenue during the crucial holiday period, two sources familiar with the matter said. "The issue with Google Ad Manager has been resolved and ad serving has now been restored for the affected users,” Google said in a tweet on Thursday evening. “We apologize for the inconvenience.” News websites such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times were being affected by the issue, one of the sources said. Another said the lost revenue for one large news website was thousands of dollars an hour and it was coming during a key revenue period as advertisers promote holiday deals. "This is real economic loss," the source said. The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times and Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Google...

Telstra has acknowledged an “outage” preventing customers putting funds onto their prepaid mobile phone accounts. “We’ve recently been made aware of an outage in the system where prepaid recharges are failing,” the telco tweeted on Thursday morning. “We’re hoping to have this rectified soon so please try again later in the morning as it should be rectified by later today.” Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> A user posted a screenshot of Telstra’s error message when he tried to recharge, which encouraged him to try again “in a few hours”. “We’re temporarily unable to recharge your Pre-Paid service due to planned maintenance,” the message read. “We’re sorry for the inconvenience. Please try recharging in a few hours.” Telstra has encouraged customer s unable to recharge their prepaid services to try again in a few hours. Credit: AAP Loading Tweet The company responded to the tweet by the user, saying, “We’re sorry for the inconvenience with this. O...

Audio streaming platform Spotify suffered a brief outage on Friday, leaving tens of thousands of users unable to access the platform before services appeared to come back online. "Everything’s looking much better now!" Spotify Status, an account that provides updates about the audio platform's status, said on Twitter. Downdetector, which tracks outage s through a range of sources including user reports, showed more than 45,000 affected users from the United States at the peak of the disruption. As Spotify was coming back online, Downdetector said reports of outage s had fallen below 2,000. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/spotify-back-up-after-brief-outage-TheFOXposts-9839.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

Spotify Technology SA's music streaming platform suffered a brief outage on Thursday, leaving tens of thousands of users unable to access the platform before services appeared to come back online. "Everything's looking much better now," Spotify Status, an account that provides updates about the platform's status, said in a tweet. In the second such outage within two weeks , more than 41,000 Spotify users reported on Downdetector.com they were having issues with the streaming platform at the peak of the disruption. As Spotify was coming back online, Downdetector said reports of outage s had fallen below 2,000. Spotify suffered a brief outage earlier this month, with more than 45,000 affected users from the United States at the peak of the disruption. A networking outage at Microsoft Corp on Wednesday took down its cloud platform along with services such as Teams and Outlook, hitting millions of users globally, while Meta Platfo...

Twitter Inc suffered a major outage on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of users global ly unable to access the popular social media platform or use its key features for several hours before services appeared to come back online . The incident is the social media site's first apparent widespread service disruption since billionaire Elon Musk took over Twitter as CEO in late October. Downdetector, a website that tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, showed more than 10,000 affected users from the United States, about 2,500 from Japan and about 2,500 from the UK at the peak of the disruption. Most of the reports came from users stating they faced technical issues accessing the social network via web browser. Reports of Twitter outages fell sharply by Wednesday evening, according to the website, with some users later commenting service had returned to normal. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment and the social network...