World
A global Microsoft outage took out Outlook, Teams and Copilot
Microsoft says servers became unexpectedly unavailable and the load fell on everything else. For organisations that run on Microsoft 365…
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Technology
Two automated processes raced each other, one deleted the other’s work, and a fifth of the internet went down for fourteen hours
AWS blamed a latent race condition in DynamoDB’s DNS automation. The fix took three hours; recovery took fourteen, because a second system…
Technology
WhatsApp went down worldwide for two hours: what happened, and what to do the next time it does
From about 1 pm Bangladesh time on 25 October, two and a half billion people could not send a message. Meta blamed a "technical error". A…