So much for having cloud redundancy at a global player then. Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Amazon Web Services was “unable to restore access…

If you’re trying to check your inbox or send an email in Microsoft Outlook, only to find the app uncooperative, you’re not alone. Outlook is currently down for many users as of Monday afternoon. That’s apparent to anyone who can’t get the app to work: Downdetector, which highlights user reports for app outages, shows tens…

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From the 17th If you’re trying (and failing) to access GitHub Monday morning, you aren’t alone. According to Downdetector, the hosting provider has over 15,000 user reports indicating issues or downtime with the service—up from roughly 3,000 reports when I first published this article. Whether you’re a developer trying to update your repository, or you’re…

Nine PBS, a PBS station in St. Louis, Missouri, must be given access to data it lost when its vendor went out of business, a judge ruled this week. Nine PBS, a PBS station in St. Louis, Missouri, sued data center company Iron Mountain in July to gain access to an archive of 70 years’…

Airbus is migrating its most critical applications for sensitive workloads from AWS to French cloud provider Scaleway’s under a drive to increase digital sovereignty.  As exclusively revealed by The Register in December, the European-based aerospace manufacturer, said it needed to guarantee the data remained “under European control” and was launching a tender at the start of…

In all of our discussions about how the digital revolution has created a system in which people don’t actually own the things they think they’re buying, I get particularly frustrated by the lack of change in it all. We’ve spilled much ink complaining that this clearly anti-consumer practice needs to be done away with, where…

A Microsoft user has lost all of his digital belongings after his account was deleted by the tech giant. A viral post from a gamer known as Joshua Khane has been making the rounds on social media after he put Microsoft on blast. The user noted that his account had been compromised, and after reaching…

Not a bad plan to have your mp3 files then I guess You may have been stymied when trying to cue up your afternoon work playlists today. Spotify posted on X that it was aware of “some issues right now for the app.” Shortly before 5PM ET, the company’s support page posted again to say…

I had no idea that ICANN wasn’t taking new gTLDs any more – I thought it was a one time craziness followed by just a running update of more being released as and when wanted. Good luck registering some original names, but there are rules 🙂 Source: New gTLD Program: 2026 Round | New gTLD…

Millions of German websites went dark, and apps stopped working on Tuesday night as Germany’s top-level domain (TLD) .de became unreachable. For users, websites like Amazon.de became unreachable. German publication Heise.de reports that key services in the country stopped working, including the Deutsche Bahn public transportation app. DNS resolvers around the globe stopped resolving .de…

Users began complaining about access on Monday morning at 0845 UTC, and, just after midday (UTC), Microsoft confirmed: “We’ve discovered some users may experience intermittent sign‑in failures, including ‘too many requests’ errors, or unexpected sign‑outs.” Affected iOS users were unable to access their email after being locked out due to too many failed password attempts.…

The statement does not say what Google Cloud is used for, what it stores. As the function of Google Cloud is to store data, this means that any data stored there (presumably all of it) is open to inspection by the US government anyway. Source: Europe picks 4 sovereign cloud providers, but one has Google…

Microsoft spent last week rejecting emails to Outlook recipients after what appears to be either a fault or overzealous blocking rules. The problem affects certain IP addresses, whose emails are rejected due to falling foul of reputation rules or appearing on a block list. A Register reader told us, “At the back end of January…

Azure Local can now run fully disconnected with no cloud connectivity, Microsoft confirmed at the London leg of its AI tour. The latest change comes amid heightened trade and geopolitical tensions between the US administration and Europe, with more customers in the trading bloc seeking reassurances about digital sovereignty. Like rival US hyperscalers, Microsoft has…

If you had trouble using ChatGPT today, you aren’t alone. The AI chatbot experienced a partial outage for many users this afternoon, with Down Detector saw reports reaching more than 12,000 reports around the peak point of the issue today.. OpenAI issued a status update shortly after noting that “elevated error rates” were occurring for…

Heads up, workers of the world: Microsoft 365 is currently down. Microsoft’s flagship work suite, which includes tools like Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook, is currently experiencing issues impacting users. It’s not yet clear exactly why these problems are occurring, but according to Downdetector (owned by Lifehacker parent company Ziff Davis) thousands of users are…

Microsoft’s January Windows update has delivered another blow for unsuspecting users – apps including Outlook might freeze when saving files to cloud storage services such as OneDrive or Dropbox. The megacorp acknowledged the latest issue days after releasing an emergency out-of-band update to deal with connection and authentication failures in the Windows App. Yet another…

Microsoft has kicked off 2026 with another faulty Windows update. This time, it is connection and authentication failures in Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 related to the Windows App. The January 2026 security update, released on January 13, is the culprit. According to Microsoft, the update can result in credential prompt failures “during Remote…

My boyfriend texted me those dreaded four words: “Is your Spotify down?” Sure enough his, mine and thousands of other users’ Spotify accounts appear to be down and out at the moment, with Downdetector recording over 10,000 reports from users. Spotify is apparently working on the problem. The account, Spotify Status, shared an update on…