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…

Here’s hoping the retailers offering tasty Cyber Monday deals that caught your eye aren’t having trouble with Shopify. The ecommerce platform is experiencing some issues. According to a support page, some merchants were having trouble logging into the Shopify platform, which was experiencing outages with the checkout and admin systems. Shopify’s point-of-sale (POS), API and…

The company acknowledged problems at 1148 UTC on November 18, stating: “Some services may be intermittently impacted.” After a long half-hour, it reckoned systems were returning to normal, but “customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates” as engineers continue to investigate and fix the underlying issue. Cloudflare provides security and infrastructure for a substantial…

After a 5 hour scheduled downtime on just Fortnite for the launch of the Simpson collaboration on the 1st of November, the whole ecosystem went crashing down. Without login services, many of the games just cannot be played. This together with the IBM, Azure, AWS and Cloudflare crashes shows just how vulnerable you are when…

How do you modernize digital collaboration in government without losing control over your data? Austria’s Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism (BMWET) faced this challenge in 2024 – and decided to take a clear, pragmatic step toward digital sovereignty. Within just four months between Proof of Concept and rollout, the ministry went live with…

A major Microsoft outage has caused services like 365 and Azure cloud platform to go dark hours before the company was set to report its quarterly earnings, CNBC reports. According to Downdetector, which monitors internet outages, tens of thousands of disruptions appear to have spiked just before noon on Wednesday, Oct. 29. The website, server…

Amazon has published a detailed postmortem explaining how a critical fault in DynamoDB’s DNS management system cascaded into a day-long outage that disrupted major websites and services across multiple brands – with damage estimates potentially reaching hundreds of billions of dollars. The incident began at 11:48 PM PDT on October 19 (7.48 UTC on October…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and more. The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1…

Vodafone fell over in the UK this afternoon, with Register readers reporting that many services including mobile coverage, internet services, and even the company’s own status page went down. The outage began on Monday at 14.25 BST, and 30 minutes later it peaked when monitoring website Downdetector.co.uk reported that almost 140,000 customers were unable to…

Austria’s military has completed a major IT overhaul, replacing Microsoft Office with the open-source LibreOffice suite across all its desktop systems. The change, finalized this month, affects approximately 16,000 workstations in the Austrian Armed Forces. This move will substantially reduce Austria’s software bill. At $33.75 per user per month, a Microsoft 365 E3 subscription for…

If you’re trying to use Google Meet and failing, it’s not your fault. Google is reportedly investigating the outage, and DownDetector has seen tens of thousands or reports about Google Meet not working properly since around 1:25 p.m. ET. “We are experiencing an issue with Google Meet beginning at Monday, 2025-09-08 10:25 PDT,” Google reported…