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Downdetector
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Downdetector, the service that tracks online outages, drew heavy attention as users reported problems with YouTube. CNET reported that the YouTube issues were mostly resolved, advising viewers that service had largely returned to normal. The outage tracked by Downdetector prompted widespread searching in Mexico, the United States and Brazil as people checked whether the platform was down for them.
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An AT&T internet outage hit Northwest Arkansas, affecting nearly 400 customers, with users turning to outage-tracking services to report disrupted connections. The incident came alongside other reported service disruptions, including Google Cloud issues in Europe and Scotiabank banking app and online banking problems in Canada, keeping outage-tracking platforms busy with user complaints.
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Multiple major services suffered outages at the same time, sending waves of user complaints to Downdetector. AT&T went down for thousands of users including an outage in Arkansas, Google reported cloud disruptions in Europe, and Gemini faced global access problems in the US, UK and India. Instagram users also reported feed, posting and notification failures. ChatGPT additionally drew failure reports in Brazil.
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Thousands of users reported connectivity problems as outages affected Spectrum and other providers, including Verizon's 5G home internet and mobile services, with complaints tracked on Downdetector. Separately, a basin-wide Frontier internet outage in the Joshua Tree area was blamed on vandals cutting cables, leaving customers offline while crews worked on repairs.
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Downdetector is seeing a surge of reports as Google users in the US complain of problems including error 1155, missing chat history, Maps failures, Drive issues and slow loading. The monitoring site, which tracks service outages, is being used by people to check whether Google's services are down and how widespread the disruption is.