T-Mobile is ‘actively working’ to resolve a major outage.
… The outage also appears to impact customers on MVNOs, too. …
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Discord is back after a major outage.
For more than an hour on Friday, many people were having trouble connecting to Discord, with the platform showing a message saying that there were “increased API errors.” Discord confirmed it was investigating issues at 3:08PM ET, and by 6:38PM ET, it reported that all “critical functionalities hav… …
Xbox outage shouldn’t have affected games on disc, Microsoft confirms
… Xbox confirmed the issues had been resolved on Monday evening. In an update on X yesterday, Van Vliet blamed the outage on an external licensing service, but didn’t explain why disc-based games were impacted at the time. …
ChatGPT was down for about 45 minutes.
… During the outage, when I tried to access ChatGPT on the web, all that loaded was an error message. The company confirmed impacted services had recovered at 8:39PM ET. Update: OpenAI says the issues are resolved. …
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… This has now been resolved. …
Here’s how the new Microsoft and OpenAI deal breaks down
… In last week’s Notepad issue I reported on employee concerns about GitHub reliability, and then hours later GitHub had a major outage. It was a particularly bad one, thanks to a bug that randomly reverted previously merged commits code snapshots . Then on Monday GitHub had a search-related outage. …
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