Month: June 2025

Meta inks a new geothermal energy deal to support AI

Meta’s geothermal ambitions are growing with a new agreement to support projects in New Mexico. It announced the deal with XGS Energy today, a company developing next-generation geothermal technologies that make it possible to use this energy source in places where it was unfeasible before. The plan is to add…

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Google services are experiencing a partial outage

Update: At about 2:30PM ET, Google posted that “All product impacts except Google Meet have recovered. Google engineers continue to work on full mitigation.” However, reports of issues have remained high for some other platforms. Original story: Google reported disruptions to several of its services today. According to the company’s…

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No, those amazing deals on Facebook aren’t real – it’s a scam, and here’s how to spot it

High-end and luxury products are being advertised with huge savings 4,000+ fake domains impersonating big brands have been spotted Victims are losing money without receiving their products More than 4,000 fake domains impersonating popular brands have been spotted in a scheme pushing scam ads targeting Facebook users. The campaign was…

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Spotify and parts of Google were down – here’s everything we know about the outage that hit major services

Refresh 2025-06-13T02:51:22.328Z Google Cloud says the issues are resolved As of 9:27PM ET, the Google Cloud status monitoring page says that the incident that impacted a vast number of services has been resolved. The full statement reads: “Vertex AI Online Prediction is full recovered as of 18:18 PDT. All the…

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Can’t access Spotify or a part of Google? Everything we know about this outage impacting major services

Refresh 2025-06-12T20:07:45.693Z Cloudflare is having some critical issues (Image credit: Shutterstock/Sharaf Maksumov) Cloudflare has posted a new update as of 3:57 PM ET on its own status page, detailing a bit more about what is going on and the potential impact here. You can see the statement in full below,…

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A massive internet outage is messing up Google Home, Spotify, and other services

On Thursday afternoon, many people with smart home setups connected to Google Home / Nest, or who are trying to stream music on Spotify, are coming up empty. All I’m seeing when I try to open the Spotify website is a message that says “Audiences in Jwt are not allowed,”…

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