Month: November 2024
Reddit was down again – popular discussion platform suffered through second major outage in two days
Refresh 2024-11-21T16:10:07.365Z Success subreddit Reddit’s reversion had the desired effect and Reddit appears to be back online. Down Detector reports have dropped precipitously and we’re now able to navigate the discussion site. (Image credit: Future) 2024-11-21T16:03:03.052Z Reddit is already showing some signs of life. As of 11AM ET, it was…
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Reddit has recovered from an outage
Reddit had some issues on Wednesday afternoon, as many users couldn’t get the platform to load reliably. In a statement to The Verge, Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt said, “There was a bug in a recent update we made, but a fix is in place and we’re ramping back up.” Its…
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Reddit was down – the popular discussion platform had a huge outage
Refresh 2024-11-20T23:41:30.418Z Oh, Reddit. Even when you’re down, you know how to reach us. The discussion platform appears almost fully healed and Reddit has been mostly mum about the cause except for a brief comment from a spokesperson. Now, though, we have the “full story” and in completely Reddit fashion.…
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Reddit is down – live updates on the huge outage
Reddit suffered a major outage on Wednesday, plunging its millions of devoted users into discussion darkness, with no place to drop their hot takes, memes, and AMA. As of 4PM ET, the popular website was returning a mostly blank page with an upstream error at the top Down Detector put…
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Microsoft announces its own Black Hat-like hacking event with big rewards for AI security
Microsoft announces Zero Day Quest, a new hacking event for security researchers An in-person event will also take place Bug bounties for AI-related issues has also been doubled Microsoft has announced an open to all research challenge to encourage researchers to discover high-impact vulnerabilities in its programs. Zero Day Quest…
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Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts
Microsoft has been trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 for months now, ahead of the end of support date for Windows 10 in October, 2025. Earlier this year, Microsoft started using fullscreen prompts to warn Windows 10 users about the support cutoff, and now it’s…
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