Is YouTube Down Right Now? Outage Hits Over a Million People, According to Downdetector
Jeff Carlson / cnet - More than a million people around the world reported the popular video site had gone dark. Just in time for Olympics coverage!
- Engineers say service normalized after widespread outage (2)
- Investigation finds infrastructure failure caused two-hour outage (2)
- On-scene: users report mass YouTube outage worldwide (8)
- Seoul: YouTube experiences partial service disruption (1)
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Engineers say service normalized after widespread outage
Investigation finds infrastructure failure caused two-hour outage
On-scene: users report mass YouTube outage worldwide
Seoul: YouTube experiences partial service disruption
All Other Stories
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WordPress’s new AI assistant will let users edit their sites with prompts
Stevie Bonifield / theverge - Starting on Tuesday, WordPress users can edit their websites using the new AI assistant built into the platform's site editor and media library, TechCrunch reports. The AI has a sidebar in the WordPress site editor where users can ask it to edit and trans…
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Nintendo's Virtual Boy app is now available to download
Matt Tate / engadget - Nintendo’s Virtual Boy app is now available to download on Switch and Switch 2 as part of its Nintendo Classics offering. You’ll need to have a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership to access the launch titles, and unlike Nintendo’s other ret…
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WBD Board Rejects Latest Paramount Bid, Gives Company a Week to Submit ‘Best and Final’ Offer
Erik Gruenwedel / mediaplaynews - Warner Bros. Discovery’s board of directors has rejected Paramount Skydance’s latest “sweetened” $108.4 billion acquisition offer, telling the David Ellison-led company it has one week to submit a “best and final” offer on its existing $30-per-share all-c…
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and The Witcher 3 are coming to Game Pass
Kris Holt / engadget - Xbox has revealed the second batch of Game Pass additions for February. There are quite a few heavyweights in the mix this time, including Kingdom Come: Deliverance II and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Let’s start with what’s available today, though. Xbox pre…
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Bitcoin treasury company Nakamoto to acquire BTC Inc and UTXO in $107 million all-stock deal
Francisco Rodrigues / coindesk - Some reacted with concerns about dilution for existing shareholders due to the stock price decline and the related-party nature of the transaction.
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Snapchat Debuts Subscriptions to Bolster Creator Revenue
PYMNTS / pymnts - Snapchat is introducing a subscription program to help creators boost revenues. Creator Subscription will launch in alpha testing Feb. 23 with a select group of creators in the U.S., the social media platform announced Tuesday (Feb. 17), adding that there…
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