All articles tagged with #downtime
Nintendo released its August 2026 maintenance schedule, adding an extra one-hour window that impacts Switch Online for Switch‑to‑Switch transfers and save data cloud, with downtime planned for Aug 17–18 and an additional Aug 18 window dedicated to transferring save data between Switch models and the Save Data Cloud.
Letterboxd experienced a Sunday morning outage that logged users out and caused sign-in errors. The platform said it’s working to restore service and posted updates on X and its site; as of 10:50 a.m. PT, the outage had not been resolved.
OpenAI reported a worldwide outage affecting ChatGPT, preventing users from loading chats or sending messages due to 'too many concurrent requests' errors; the disruption also hit Codex and multiple OpenAI API endpoints, with a fix applied and the company continuing to monitor the situation.
Nintendo released its maintenance schedule for the week of July 19, 2026, revealing planned Switch Online downtime affecting Switch 2 and Switch in mid-August (Aug 17–18 across multiple time zones), with no additional sessions announced yet.
A widespread outage hit Meta’s core apps—Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger—leaving users unable to load or log into accounts. Downdetector logged a spike in reports as users worldwide reported being logged out or facing blank pages, and Meta acknowledged the issue, saying they’re working on a fix.
Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 has gone live again after maintenance, with servers back online and players able to jump into the new season’s updates and content as Epic Games completes the downtime window.
An Amazon Web Services outage centered in the US-EAST-1 region continues into its second day, with recovery slower than expected and outages reported by Coinbase, FanDuel, and Chartbeat; DownDetector shows ongoing issues as AWS restoration is expected to take several more hours and Coinbase notes funds are safe.
Discord faced an outage lasting a bit over an hour with users seeing increased API errors. The company said it was investigating at 3:08 PM ET and by 6:38 PM ET all critical functionalities had been restored for all users.
eBay suffered a global outage that disrupted core features like search, logging in, checkout, and item descriptions as the platform’s API went down for hours. DownDetector tracked a spike around 3:30 PM ET with reports from multiple regions; the site status page showed green, and eBay has not issued a public timeline for resolution. The disruption also affected third‑party tools relying on the API, raising broader ecommerce impact. Unverified posts mention a possible DDoS claim by the group 313 Team, but this is not confirmed. With many auctions ending soon, sellers risk lost bids and revenue.
Nintendo released a brief maintenance schedule for the week of April 26, 2026, affecting both Switch 2 and Switch devices. The downtime targets downloadable software (online licenses) and virtual game cards, with two short sessions on April 20 (and into April 21 for UK/Europe) across time zones: 7:00 PM PT / 7:30 PM PT and 10:00 PM ET / 10:30 PM ET, plus corresponding UK and European times. The downtime is described as brief, and Nintendo’s maintenance reports page can be used to track updates.
A cyberattack on Intoxalock disrupted its breathalyzer calibration services, leaving drivers unable to calibrate their devices and stranded; the company is offering 10‑day calibration extensions and occasional towing, with no disclosed data breach. The WIRED security roundup also covers the FBI resuming purchases of commercial location data, an Iranian-linked hack disrupting Maryland hospitals’ Stryker medical devices, an AI agent security incident at Meta, and the takedown of several botnets used in major cyberattacks.
Amazon.com suffered a three-hour outage affecting checkout, search, and login on its site and apps due to a software code deployment; the company says the issue is fixed and services are back to normal, with earlier AWS-related outages in other regions noted but no widespread US impact.
Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, faced heavy downtime with degraded functionality. Microsoft said a North America infrastructure issue is being addressed by rebalancing traffic and monitoring health telemetry, in an incremental recovery effort to restore services across affected platforms.
Thousands of Microsoft 365 users faced degraded access to Outlook, Teams and other apps. Microsoft acknowledged the outage, restored the affected infrastructure to a healthy state by about 4:14 p.m. EST, and began rebalancing traffic to a balanced state, though some users still reported issues and calls for compensation.
X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) went down Friday morning, with users seeing errors like 'Something went wrong' and a spinning reload. Downdetector logged roughly 200,000 outage reports by 10:52 a.m. ET, affecting both the app and website. The issues briefly eased around 10:35 a.m. before resuming at 10:41 a.m., with Cloudflare’s cybersecurity services cited as the likely source, marking yet another outage in a string of disruptions for the platform.