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
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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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AWS is down: February 16 outage explained
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Amazon Web Services (AWS) is experiencing a sudden spike in technical issues, causing widespread disruptions across various digital platforms on February 16, 2026. According to Downdetector data, reports began to climb sharply at 4.46 PM, with nearly 100 …
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Hollywood shaken by Brad Pitt-Tom Cruise fight video made with Chinese AI: ‘over for us’
scmp - A viral AI-generated video of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting atop a building is causing a stir online.The 15-second video comes from the latest AI video-generation platform, Seedance 2.0. The platform was launched this week by its owner, ByteDance, the…
- ByteDance AI product offensive — Reporter: China's fast, cheap models threaten Western AI leadership (5)
- Promotion and Lunar New Year push — Reporter: ByteDance giveaways stoke user adoption frenzy (1)
- Viral deepfake and Hollywood backlash — Reporter: Actors, studios rage against unauthorized cinematic AI (8)
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ByteDance AI product offensive — Reporter: China's fast, cheap models threaten Western AI leadership
Promotion and Lunar New Year push — Reporter: ByteDance giveaways stoke user adoption frenzy
Viral deepfake and Hollywood backlash — Reporter: Actors, studios rage against unauthorized cinematic AI
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Roku stock surges on earnings beat, record quarter for premium subscriptions
cnbc - Roku executives said in a shareholder letter that it marked "our biggest quarter ever" for net adds to premium subscriptions.
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Death Stranding 2 for PC finally has a release date, with new modes at launch
digitaltrends - Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is officially coming to PC this March, bringing Kojima’s surreal sequel to a wider audience along with new modes, features, and PC-specific upgrades.The post Death Stranding 2 for PC finally has a release date, with new mod…
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Spider-Noir trailer: Nicolas Cage channels film noir detectives, and its glorious
mashable - Nicolas Cage reprises his scene-stealing "Into the Spider-Verse" role in the live-action series "Spider-Noir," out May 27.
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State of Play live blog: don't miss the biggest PS5 announcements from Sony PlayStation
Adam Vjestica / theshortcut - We're covering all the news as it happens from Sony's State of Play presentation
- On-site State of Play coverage: schedules, liveblogs and full trailers. (8)
- PlayStation studios spotlight: God of War, Kena, Ghost of Yotei. (14)
- Remedy's Control Resonant: gameplay reveals, physics-bending NYC combat. (4)
- Third-party heavyweights: John Wick, Metal Gear, Marvel, Star Wars. (25)
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On-site State of Play coverage: schedules, liveblogs and full trailers.
PlayStation studios spotlight: God of War, Kena, Ghost of Yotei.
Remedy's Control Resonant: gameplay reveals, physics-bending NYC combat.
Third-party heavyweights: John Wick, Metal Gear, Marvel, Star Wars.
All Other Stories
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Gail Slater Leaves Role as Justice Dept.’s Antitrust Chief
David McCabe / nytimes - Her departure comes after months of mounting tension over her division’s work to determine whether companies violated antitrust laws.
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YouTube Finally Launches Native Apple Vision Pro App
Nehal Malik / iphoneincanada - It took just over two years, but YouTube has finally arrived on Apple Vision Pro. According to MacRumors, Google has officially launched a standalone YouTube app for visionOS, giving Apple Vision Pro users a native way to watch videos on a massive virtual…
- Can Google's other apps join Vision Pro next? (1)
- Two-year delay and third-party takedowns (2)
- YouTube lands on Vision Pro with 3D, 360, 8K (12)
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Can Google's other apps join Vision Pro next?
Two-year delay and third-party takedowns
YouTube lands on Vision Pro with 3D, 360, 8K
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US FTC airs concerns over allegations that Apple News suppresses right-wing content
Ram Iyer / techcrunch - In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson cited reports from Media Research Center, a right-leaning think tank, which accused Apple of excluding right-leaning outlets from the top 20 articles in the Apple News feed.
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Apple acquires all rights to Severance, will produce future seasons in-house
Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The show is expected to run for four seasons, with the possibility of spin-offs, a prequel, and foreign versions.
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Pokémon Pokopia Could Be the Switch 2’s Biggest Sleeper Hit
Kyle Barr / gizmodo - Pokémon Pokopia helps players stop catching creatures and instead become Poke-ecologists.
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This free YouTube Music feature just vanished behind a paywall
Craig Donaldson / pocket-lint - YouTube Music no longer wants you to look at lyrics for free.
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Riot Games is laying off half of the 2XKO development team
Anna Washenko / engadget - Another day, another wave of gaming layoffs. Today it's Riot Games with the announcement that it's cutting jobs on its pair-based fighting game 2XKO. For context, a representative from Riot confirmed to Game Developer that about 80 people are being cut, o…
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