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YouTube server outage takes videos down with "content isn't available" error

Sayan Sen — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:00:05 +0000

Many users have confirmed that currently YouTube outage has taken videos down and out as they are showing "content isn't available" error message, Read more...

Outage hits Exchange Admin Center, Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook may be down

Sayan Sen — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:02:01 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed that Exchange Admin Center is down and out which means Microsoft 365 services like Outlook and other apps may be inaccessible. Read more...

Outage hits some Microsoft 365 services like Outlook as it goes down, Microsoft confirms

Sayan Sen — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:04:01 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed that certain Microsoft 365 services like Outlook web are down and out. Preliminary details have been shared. Read more...

Outage strikes Meta servers. Company says sorry as Facebook, Instagram go down

Sayan Sen — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:12:01 +0000

Meta has confirmed that its apps like Instagram and Facebook, among others, are down and out at the moment. Read more...

Microsoft 365 outage hits as apps are inaccessible, Admin Center may be down too

Sayan Sen — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:22:01 +0000

Microsoft 365 services are down and out at the moment, the company has confirmed. Some say they are also unable to access the Message Cener portal. Read more...

Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive outage and issues fixed.. for most

Sayan Sen — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:28:01 +0000

Microsoft 365 services like Exchange Online, Outlook on the Web, Teams, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint Online experienced an outage earlier today, and now they are down once again. Read more...

Twitter's homepage is displaying first-time user feed for everyone, prompting confusion

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 10:41:15 +0000

Twitter's homepage is currently displaying a feed that appears to be targeted towards first-time users and is giving them suggestion to follow other accounts on the platform. Read more...

Lenovo is the latest tech firm to feel the pinch, turns to cost cutting

Steve Bennett — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:18:02 +0000

Lenovo, following the second quarterly decline in sales in a row, and with profits falling for the first time since 2020, has had to start cost cutting due to the changing market and loss of demand. Read more...

Microsoft investigating Teams, Outlook outage [Update]

Justin Luna — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:18:01 +0000

Microsoft is currently investigating an outage that made it difficult for many users in several countries to access Teams and Outlook. Over 3,700 incidents have been reported on Downdetector so far. Read more...

WhatsApp down for many users worldwide, Meta working on a fix [Update]

Justin Luna — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:32:01 +0000

Popular messaging service WhatsApp has been down for the past hour for many users worldwide. Meta, WhatsApp's parent company, has since acknowledged the problem and is now working on a fix. Read more...

Instagram sputters back to life just as abruptly as it went down

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 19:44:02 +0000

Instagram suffered a two-hour-long outage. The social media platform has now come back to life and started to function normally. The exact cause behind the service going down isn't yet known. Read more...

Twitter goes down but only for desktop users, app working fine, for now

Alap Naik Desai — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 23:50:01 +0000

Twitter seems to be inaccessible, claimed several Tweets. The microblogging network is working fine on the official apps for iOS and Android, but its website doesn't load on desktop PCs. Read more...

LinkedIn is not working right now, support team is working on fixing it

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:18:55 +0000

Working professionals who use LinkedIn regularly might be facing some issues at the moment. According to LinkedIn and various reports, the LinkedIn website and mobile app is down right now. Read more...

YouTube servers crash, causing service breakdown in some parts of the world

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Fri, 15 May 2020 00:25:30 +0000

According to multiple reports from across the globe, YouTube was down on both mobile and PC platforms a little while ago. As per reports, it seems that it is back on for now, but not for everyone. Read more...

Here's why Microsoft Azure faced a global outage yesterday

Usama Jawad — Fri, 03 May 2019 20:28:01 +0000

Microsoft Azure was globally down for roughly two hours yesterday with a number of Microsoft services such as Dynamics and DevOps being affected. The company plans to publish an RCA within 72 hours. Read more...

YouTube goes down, netizens have a bit of a meltdown [Update]

Paul Hill — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 02:07:12 +0000

The popular video streaming website, YouTube, has gone offline. While users can reach the website, content fails to load. The issues is likely being caused by some sort of fault at YouTube's end. Read more...

Telegram and Signal experience worldwide outages

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 11:18:01 +0000

Two of the most popular mobile messaging services, Telegram and Signal, are both experiencing outages across Europe and Asia, with some intermitted outages in other parts of the world as well. Read more...

Some Xbox Live services are down, Microsoft promises to resolve issues

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:27:50 +0000

Users of Microsoft's gaming console may be experiencing some issues purchasing content or accessing multiplayer content as the company's gaming network is experiencing at least partial outages. Read more...

Steam servers experiencing issues following Summer Sale, possibly due to cyberattack

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:24:01 +0000

Some users are unable to properly access Steam servers during the the 2017 Summer Sale. Hacker group CyberTeam claimed responsibility and promised a full attack targeting all servers is on the way. Read more...

Massive DDoS attacks take down Twitter, Netflix, Reddit

Jett Goldsmith — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:18:01 +0000

Waves of DDoS cyber attacks have hit at least two internet service providers this morning, causing popular websites like Netflix, Twitter, and Reddit to go offline for an extended period of time. Read more...

Microsoft OneDrive is down worldwide [Update]

Andy Weir — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:37:39 +0000

There are widespread reports from users around the world unable to access their cloud storage on Microsoft OneDrive. Access has now been restored to some, but the problem persists for many others. Read more...

Facebook is down for many users

Daniel Hull — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:31:45 +0000

Large numbers of users are suffering accessibility issues when trying to reach Facebook, as an unexplained outage is currently affecting many across Europe and the United States. Read more...

Twitter bug makes tweets look old, won't let some users sign in [UPDATE]

Adrian Potoroaca — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 03:30:01 +0000

“Something is technically wrong. … Thanks for noticing-we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.” Funny thing is Twitter servers seem to think that it's already 2015. Read more...

Xbox Live experiences second outage this month, 'Lizard Squad' decrees it #offline

Timi Cantisano — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 12:10:08 +0000

Xbox Live experienced another outage courtesy of 'Lizard Squad'. This is the second outage, with the first one occurring on December 1st. Xbox Live is still experiencing issues hours later. Read more...

Apple's online store is down, new iMacs inbound? [Update]

Andrew Stevenson — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:38:43 +0000

Anyone wishing to buy an Apple product from the Apple store today may have to wait a little longer, with the site being down for updates. Does this mean that new iMac's be revealed today? Read more...

Study: The more you use Facebook, the :( you're likely to be

Andrew Stevenson — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 06:13:26 +0000

Facebook is a useful tool for sure, but at the moment it seems like it's just filled with people crushing candy. But a recent study shows that we may be most unhappy after using the social network. Read more...

Apple's PC market share rises. Or falls, who knows. The analysts clearly don't!

Andrew Stevenson — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:04:04 +0000

If you're Apple, you're either celebrating or accepting that you're part of the trend. Gartner and IDC have released sales figures showing Apple's US PC shipments is both up and down respectively. Read more...

Reddit will allow users to up/down vote ads

Max Slater-Robins — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:26:13 +0000

Reddit are introducing the ability to up vote, or down vote ads depending on their relevancy to you. If an advert is unsuitable, Reddit will hide it if you down vote the ad. Read more...

HTC's February revenue down 44% year-over-year

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:36:51 +0000

HTC have announced a 44% year-over-year drop in revenue during February 2013, to just $384 million. Many are predicting that if the new One doesn't sell well, HTC is doomed. Read more...

Poor HTC, profits down yet again

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:46:29 +0000

HTC - Quietly brilliant yes, but publicly haemorrhaging money. A 91% drop in profits for Q4 of 2012 has been announced, but CEO Peter Chou is optimistic for 2013 after a rough 2012. Read more...

Gmail is currently down [Update] Online again - maybe not

Brad Sams — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:58:03 +0000

If you are trying to log into your email account and are running into issues, it looks like Google's email service is currently offline at the moment with widespread outages being reported. Read more...

Apple stock down following iPad and iMac event

Andrew Stevenson — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:36:19 +0000

Apple finally revealed the iPad Mini, but also a refreshed iPad and new iMac and MacBook Pro hadware. But their stock price has taken a slight dip following the announcements. Read more...

Apple Store is down, new iMacs coming?

Steven Parker — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:29:45 +0000

This morning the Apple Store has been taken offline for an anticipated update to the iMac line, which will introduce Intel's Sandy Bridge Core CPU family to the iMac line after the update to the... Read more...

Details emerge on earlier Facebook outage

Alan Cone — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:06:07 +0000

Earlier today many of you probably noticed, and perhaps even posted about it here on the forums, that the social networking giant, Facebook, was down. The outage, which lasted approximately 2.5 hours, according to Robert... Read more...

WordPress.com goes down for two hours, takes 10.2 million blogs with it

Tom Warren — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:32:25 +0000

TheNextWeb reports that WordPress.com was down for two hours on Thursday, affecting 10.2 million hosted blogs. High profile hosted blogs including TechCrunch, GigaOM, CNN blogs, Redhat and Fail Blog, were all inaccessible for nearly two hours.... Read more...

Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO

Matthew Hopson — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:27:49 +0000

Mark Shuttleworth announced in a press call yesterday that he will step down from his role as CEO of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu operating system, but will remain involved in the Ubuntu project... Read more...

America to crack down on blogger payola

Matthew Hopson — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:20:30 +0000

US regulators are to crack down on bloggers who fail to disclose money or gifts received from companies when reviewing their products. In the new policy from the Federal Trade Commission, offending bloggers could eventually... Read more...

Bing Travel knocked out in Seattle data center fire

Sam Symons — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:53:42 +0000

A fire in Seattle has severed the power supply to a group of servers, which included Microsoft's Bing Travel section, according to a report by Tech Flash. Not only was that part of Bing knocked... Read more...

9 years down the road with Neowin

Steven Parker — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:30:52 +0000

Hi there it's Steve here, otherwise known as Neobond on the forums. It's also weekend, and a perfect day for an "opinion piece". Remember back in 2000 when we started? Many of you will because... Read more...

Gmail goes down again

Kevin Weiner — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:08:55 +0000

According to IT Pro, Gmail has crashed at 11 AM today, making it the third time this year Google has had problems with their service. A Google spokesperson said, "A number of our users had... Read more...