Topic: downdetector reports
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Google Meet Outage Disrupts Monday Meetings
A widespread Google Meet outage on Monday afternoon prevented thousands of users from joining virtual meetings, causing significant workflow disruptions. The issue, which started around 1:30 p.m. ET, led to slow UI loads, meeting join failures, and black screens on desktop, though mobile access o...
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X Outage: Thousands Hit by Widespread Service Disruption
Social media platform X experienced a widespread outage for nearly three hours, preventing thousands of users from accessing the site or app and displaying various error messages. The disruption was caused by technical issues with Cloudflare, which detected a surge in unusual traffic and led to i...
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Hollow Knight: Silksong Shatters Records on Steam and Nintendo eShop
Hollow Knight: Silksong's launch caused major server strain on Steam, leading to widespread purchasing and download errors, with over 11,000 user reports on DownDetector. Despite technical issues, player enthusiasm remained high, with over 100,000 concurrent players on Steam, and third-party reta...
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Nationwide Verizon Wireless Outage Affects Many
A major Verizon Wireless outage across the U.S. is causing widespread loss of connectivity, with many phones dropping to SOS-only mode. Verizon has acknowledged the issue and its engineers are working on a fix, but there is no estimated time for full service restoration. Despite a decline in form...
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ARC Raiders, Fortnite & Rocket League Hit by Major Outage
A major outage is disrupting multiple popular online games, including Fortnite and Rocket League, due to a problem within the Epic Games ecosystem, not a broader Amazon Web Services failure. The issue affects Epic's entire online infrastructure, causing network timeouts and login failures in its ...
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ChatGPT Down? OpenAI Confirms Issues & Fixes
ChatGPT experienced widespread disruptions this morning, with paid subscribers encountering errors or unresponsive service, starting around 8:30 a.m. ET. OpenAI confirmed elevated error rates for paying customers, particularly affecting the "Conversations" feature, and worked to resolve the issue...
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Microsoft Azure Outage Disrupts Xbox and 365 Services
A major Microsoft cloud infrastructure outage disrupted services including Microsoft 365, Xbox Live, and Minecraft, caused by DNS issues that began around 12:00 PM Eastern Time. The incident occurred just hours before Microsoft's quarterly earnings announcement, drawing significant attention and ...
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TikTok's First Weekend Under US Ownership Hit by Outages
TikTok experienced significant technical disruptions during its first weekend under new U.S. ownership, with users reporting login failures, upload problems, and a malfunctioning comment section. Many users' personalized "For You" feeds appeared to reset, flooding them with generic content, which...
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Vandals Disrupt Spectrum Internet by Cutting Fiber-Optic Lines
Southern California Spectrum customers experienced widespread internet outages after vandals mistakenly cut fiber-optic cables while attempting to steal copper wiring in Van Nuys. Spectrum restored service quickly, offered a $25,000 reward for information on the vandals, and provided affected cus...
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