Google Cloud suffered an outage on Thursday, affecting many of its customers; Cloudflare, Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and others experienced service disruptions
Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify.
Google says “rare issues at Google Cloud” caused a week-long private cloud outage at UniSuper, an Australian pension fund for the education and research sectors
Google problems resulting in an inadvertent misconfiguration of UniSuper's systems
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel
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Sources: X shut down a tool for identifying coordinated disinformation campaigns in recent months, as the company moved services off Google Cloud to cut costs
Erin Woo / The Information :
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk impose...
Google Cloud blocked a 46M requests-per-second DDoS attack on June 1, the largest ever and around 76% bigger than the attack Cloudflare thwarted in June
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register :
Stripe's Patrick Collison, Microsoft's Brad Smith, Google's Thomas Kurian, and Cloudflare's Matthew Prince discuss moderation in internet infrastructure
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — It was Patrick Collison, Stripe's CEO, who pointed out to me that one of the animating principles … Tweets: @tomgara , @mathewi , @mattzeitlin , @seanrose , @...
Researchers find that hackers have breached Volusion, a Shopify rival, delivering malicious JavaScript code to between 6,500 and 20,000 online stores
up to 6.5k stores impacted (including Sesame Street online store) —hackers altered a JS file hosted on the company's Google Cloud account https://www.zdnet.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Google details the root cause behind the recent outage that caused Google Cloud to lose a third of its traffic, which affected Snapchat and YouTube among others
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YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Discord, and many other services were down throughout US during a major Google Cloud service outage, now resolved after 4+ hours
Tom Warren / The Verge :