The issues we are seeing are related to Claude.ai and with the login/logout paths. Anthropic has not yet detailed what caused the outage, though the company said it has identified an issue and is implementing a fix.
If your Gmail inbox is all out of whack today, you're not alone. Gmail users have been encountering issues with the automatic filters that keep their main inbox free from the clutter of promotional emails and non-urgent updates, and some have reported seeing notices that emails have not been scanned for spam. Google confirmed to Engadget and in an update on its Workspace status dashboard that it's aware of the problems, and is currently working on a fix.
Venmo announced early Thursday that an issue impacting the payment service had been fixed and it was "back up and running," after users reported trouble sending and receiving money for hours. "We're sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate you bearing with us while our team addressed this," the company said in a post on the social platform X. Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, showed reports that problems began spiking at about 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday.
The ADF outage, triggered by a faulty control-plane configuration change, brought Microsoft 365, Xbox Live, the Azure Portal, and thousands of customer websites to a crawl before a staged recovery returned services to normal. Moreover, the outage's blast radius was broad, demonstrating the profound dependency of the entire Microsoft ecosystem and its customers on AFD as a centralized edge fabric.
Someone definitely unplugged something they shouldn't have. This morning the worldwide internet saw some major outages after Amazon's AWS server farms suffered a whoopsie, taking down big-name games like Fortnite and Roblox, and as Eurogamer spotted, Palworld, Clash Royale and various Nintendo online services. Most of these have since recovered. Update: Fortnite has recovered, with multiplayer matches working once again. Nintendo is also back online, after both Switch and Switch 2 network services went offline for about four hours this morning.
It's one of the most popular options for online grocery shopping in the UK, but Tesco appears to be suffering technical troubles this morning. Thousands of people have been left unable to do their online shop, as the Tesco app and website are not working properly. According to DownDetector, problems started just after 8am BST on Monday and are affecting more than 1,100 users across the UK.
Despite the confirmed problems with Microsoft Forms, Microsoft's official 365 Service Health Status website continues to display "everything up and running." This discrepancy is expected to be addressed as the situation evolves.
