Tens of thousands report Amazon outages
Bradly Shankar / mobilesyrup - If you’ve been having issues with Amazon right now, you’re not alone. Since around 2:30 p.m. ET, more than 20,000 people reported outages on Downdetector. On the site, some people report being unable to sign in or view the correct prices, while others say…
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Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says
cnbc - Amazon said the Bahrain facility was damaged due to a nearby drone strike, and two data centers in the UAE were directly hit by drones.
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US and EU police shut down LeakBase, a site accused of sharing stolen passwords and hacking tools
Zack Whittaker / techcrunch - Authorities say LeakBase was "one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals," and maintained an archive of hacked databases containing hundreds of millions of passwords.
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GPT-5.3 Instant lands: OpenAI cuts refusals, boosts web reasoning 26%
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - OpenAI has released an update to one of the most widely used models inside ChatGPT — GPT-5.3 Instant.…
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Facebook is down, interrupting your poking and Meta's ads business
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Go outside and smell some flowers Meta’s flagship service, Facebook, is experiencing an outage.…
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Accenture Acquires Ookla, Downdetector As Part of $1.2 Billion Deal
BeauHD / slashdot - Accenture is acquiring Downdetector parent company Ookla from Ziff Davis in a $1.2 billion deal to bolster its network analytics and visibility tools for telecoms, hyperscalers, and enterprises. "The deal, which will transfer all of Ziff Davis's Connectiv…
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Google Chrome shifts to two-week release cycle for increased stability
Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - Google Chrome will shift from a four-week to a two-week release cycle to roll out new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements more frequently. [...]
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Iran's cyberwar has begun
Jessica Lyons / theregister - 'Expect elevated activity for the foreseeable future' Iranian hackers have launched spying expeditions, digital probes, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the wake of the US and Israel launching missile strikes over the weekend, and secur…
- AI and phishing threats — weaponized agents, rising scams, deepfakes (8)
- Iran-linked cyber operations — espionage, DDoS, app propaganda (4)
- Maritime and infrastructure disruptions — GPS, AWS outages, internet cuts (4)
- OTHER — warnings, VPN workarounds, industry hires, communications advice (4)
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AI and phishing threats — weaponized agents, rising scams, deepfakes
Iran-linked cyber operations — espionage, DDoS, app propaganda
Maritime and infrastructure disruptions — GPS, AWS outages, internet cuts
OTHER — warnings, VPN workarounds, industry hires, communications advice
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Back to Top / Monday, March 2, 2026, 3:22 pm / permalink 20018 / 28 stories in 4 days
Starlink to partner with Deutsche Telekom to launch satellite mobile service in Europe
cnbc - The service will go live in 2028. It comes as Starlink's owner, SpaceX, gears up for an IPO.
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Is Claude down? Anthropic confirms major outage
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Anthropic’s Claude AI is currently experiencing a significant global outage today, Monday, March 2, 2026. Users attempting to access the chatbot are encountering a variety of errors, ranging from login failures to total service blackouts. The disruption c…
- Anthropic investigates; engineers probe elevated errors (2)
- Breaking: Global Claude outage leaves users stranded (4)
- Users report disruptions; Claude's sudden popularity noted (2)
- What we know: causes, symptoms, and fixes (2)
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Anthropic investigates; engineers probe elevated errors
Breaking: Global Claude outage leaves users stranded
Users report disruptions; Claude's sudden popularity noted
What we know: causes, symptoms, and fixes
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The digital front: Iran’s internet down for second day amid reports of U.S.-Israel cyberattacks
cnbc - Iran is facing widespread internet disruptions following the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes over the weekend.
- Cloud and data-centre hits: AWS outages and regional tech disruptions (4)
- Internet blackout and cyber ops: prayer app weaponized nationwide (5)
- Markets shock: oil, gold, bitcoin swing as war rattles investors (23)
- Military strikes and regional fallout: leadership killed, Gulf on edge (11)
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Cloud and data-centre hits: AWS outages and regional tech disruptions
Internet blackout and cyber ops: prayer app weaponized nationwide
Markets shock: oil, gold, bitcoin swing as war rattles investors
Military strikes and regional fallout: leadership killed, Gulf on edge
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US court blocks landmark law limiting social media use for children
ft - Judge rules Virginia does not have right to restrict ‘minors’ access to constitutionally protected speech’
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Archer teams up with Starlink to bring internet access to its Midnight air taxi
Max Knoblauch / sherwood - The announcement marks an “industry-first collaboration,” says Archer.
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Google Maps wins access to one of last countries where app does not work
ft - South Korea lifts data restriction that have prevented US tech group from providing navigation services
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OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems
Reece Rogers / wired - An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.
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Discord puts global age verification policy on hold after backlash
therecord - In responding to pushback about Discord's impending age verification policy, co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy said the platform "failed at our most basic job: clearly explaining what we're doing and why. That's on us.”
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Discord delays global rollout of age verification after backlash
Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The company added that 90% of users won’t need to verify their age and will be able to keep using Discord as usual.
- Delay and backlash — Global rollout postponed amid user outcry. (5)
- Persona vendor controversy — Users distrust Persona; Discord distances itself. (1)
- Technical fixes & alternatives — Company promises credit-card, on-device, inference options. (2)
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Delay and backlash — Global rollout postponed amid user outcry.
Persona vendor controversy — Users distrust Persona; Discord distances itself.
Technical fixes & alternatives — Company promises credit-card, on-device, inference options.
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Russia launches terror probe into Telegram chief Pavel Durov
Milena Wälde / politico - Moscow claims the messaging platform has been used in thousands of cases of sabotage, terrorism and extremism.
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Ofcom issues largest-ever Online Safety Act fine
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Ofcom has issued the largest fine to date under the Online Safety Act (OSA), demanding that 8579 LLC pays £1.35m for failing to implement age verification on its pornographic sites. The regulator launched an investigation into the company, which owns doze…
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Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the cou…
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