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AdGuard is reporting a partial outage since 22:35 UTC. AdGuard DNS users in North America may experience DNS resolution issues.
Garmin Services is experiencing a major outage that began at 22:31 UTC, affecting satellite activation and subscription billing as well as LTE activation and subscription billing, according to a monitoring report citing delays with in Reach.
Instagram and Facebook are down for thousands of users in what is described as a major outage.
Instagram and Facebook are down for thousands of users in a major outage. Meta has not yet issued a statement on the cause or when it will be resolved.
Widespread fibre outage reported in central Auckland suburbs.
The Fourth China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) is being held in Beijing from June 22 to 26, 2026, with its Digital Technology section introducing a dedicated artificial intelligence zone for the first time, featuring demonstrations including a robot playing football and AI physical therapy.
Facebook outage reports surge in the U.S., with more than 20,000 users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.
ManyChat is reporting a partial outage since 21:47 UTC affecting Meta platform APIs, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Instagram and Facebook are experiencing a major outage, with users reporting the apps are not working, according to The Independent.
MRI Software is reporting a major outage since 21:39 UTC at its London data center (EUL), affecting Planet Mobile, Planet, Horizon, and two additional products. Investigation is underway.
Waymo has issued a new recall of its robotaxis following multiple reported incidents in which the autonomous vehicles drove past ramp closures and into construction sites.
A US spectrum auction has raised $3.5 billion, which will fund the replacement of Chinese telecom equipment.
Instagram and Facebook are down amid a major outage, with users reporting the apps are not working.
Google's YouTube settles with plaintiff ahead of second California trial over social media harm to children, attorneys say
Meta-owned platforms Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are down.
Card payment systems have gone down at UK pubs, leaving England fans unable to purchase drinks.
Germany's rail network has come to a complete halt due to an IT malfunction.
US users are reporting widespread issues with Instagram and Facebook, according to Downdetector.
Facebook outage reports surge in the U.S., with more than 20,000 users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.
Superhuman has acquired GPTZero, an AI detection startup.
YouTube settles with a minor plaintiff ahead of a second trial over alleged social media harm to children.
YouTube settles with minor plaintiff ahead of second individual trial over social media harm to children, attorneys say
Parts of the internet went down following a major network outage, according to Metro News.
Germinal has developed a novel approach for efficiently generating epitope-targeted antibodies with high experimental success rates, Nature Biotechnology reports on the de novo complementarity-determining region design.
Meta has created a prediction markets app.
Microsoft released the Azure Copilot Observability Agent for general availability. The agent links logs, metrics and traces across infrastructure to identify root causes of outages and suggest remedies.
Meta exposed data internally from its employee-tracking program, which collects workers' keystroke data to train AI models. Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative.
Waymo has filed its second voluntary safety recall in five weeks. The same failure recurred 13 times across two cities before the fix was deployed.
XPRIZE Wildfire Autonomous Wildfire Response Track finals testing is underway. Finalists are testing autonomous systems designed to detect and suppress a standardized and controlled incipient stage wildfire without human intervention.
Dialog claims it was hacked, and a misconfigured website left its members exposed.