Month: January 2026
Verizon-owned Visible is offering outage credits, too
As spotted by 9to5Google, a message sent to Visible customers explains: “Yesterday we let you down and for that we are sorry. We are giving you a $5 credit towards your next month of service that can be redeemed after Jan 16 when paying with a credit card online.” The…
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Ted Sarandos says Netflix will commit to 45-day theatrical releases
Though Netflix’s plan to buy Warner Bros. Discovery has prompted concerns about how the deal might hurt the movie theater business, the streamer’s co-CEO says that there is nothing to worry about. In a new interview with The New York Times, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said that, should the WBD…
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OpenAI releases a cheaper ChatGPT subscription
OpenAI is expanding a low-cost subscription tier called ChatGPT Go to the US and the rest of the world. Go was released in India in August and later became available in another 170 countries prior to Friday’s global release. “In markets where Go has been available, we’ve seen strong adoption…
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Ads are coming soon to ChatGPT, starting with shopping links
ChatGPT will soon start showing you sponsored products or services if they’re related to your conversation. In an announcement on Friday, OpenAI says it will start testing ads in the coming weeks for logged-in users in the US who use the app for free or have a ChatGPT Go subscription.…
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X has been down for most of the morning
X is still struggling with an outage that has intermittently taken the service offline and made it slow to load for much of the morning. According to X’s developer platform page, there is an ongoing incident related to streaming endpoints that’s caused increased errors. The incident started at 7:39AM PT,…
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X is still having issues following an hour-long outage on Friday
On Friday morning, X and Grok went offline for users around the world on both the websites and apps. Outage reports began spiking on DownDetector around 10:00AM ET, while Cisco’s ThousandEyes outage map noted over 600 X servers around the world that were having problems. Attempts to load the site…
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