T-Mobile is ‘actively working’ to resolve a major outage.
… The outage also appears to impact customers on MVNOs, too. One NYC-based Verge staffer on Google Fi, which runs on T-Mobile’s network, has no service. …
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Xbox outage shouldn’t have affected games on disc, Microsoft confirms
… 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. …
Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc
… Outages like this, however, are showing the potential downside of a system that ties authentication requirements even to physical copies of games. The outage follows major layoffs at Xbox that were announced earlier this month. …
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. …
GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours
… The discovery of a major vulnerability in GitHub comes just days after GitHub had a major outage that randomly reverted previously merged commits code snapshots for some users. GitHub also had other outages last week, in what’s increasingly becoming a trend for the service. …
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
… With GitHub’s revenue now reporting into MCAPS and product work split into Microsoft’s Developer Division, some inside GitHub feel like there’s no leadership team anymore. “There’s basically no more GitHub at all anymore,” one GitHub employee told me last month. “It’s all Microsoft, and the company… …
Here’s how the new Microsoft and OpenAI deal breaks down
… I wouldn’t be surprised to see OpenAI’s models also appear on Google’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform service in the future. That gives Microsoft less of an advantage over its rivals, particularly for its Azure OpenAI service and its Foundry efforts. …
Social Media Platforms
… As a result, users have been experiencing “intermittent interruptions in service for their feeds, notifications, threads and search,” Bluesky says . The company first got a report of “intermittent app outages” at around 2:40AM ET this morning. …
Elon Musk broke the FAA — Palantir is picking up the pieces
… The outage disrupted more than 1,100 flights across the center’s 330,000 square mile, nine-state airspace sector. …
The Pope isn’t AGI-pilled
… A problem at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike sidelined banks, hospitals, and airlines around the world, and an outage at Amazon Web Services took down a large swath of the internet, from Reddit to Venmo. …