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Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Update: Outage resolved after 1 hour)

Countless popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal, Vimeo, Shopify, Stripe, and news outlets CNN, The Guardian, The New York Tim

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Global internet outage hits major websites - including the UK government site

Sites affected included Reddit, eBay, Twitch, The Guardian, Financial Times, Independent, New York Times and the Evening Standard.

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Facebook under new investigation by competition authority

The Competition and Market Authority is probing whether the company abuses its dominant market position.

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JD.com beats market expectations as COVID-19 boom persists

JD's mascot Joy is seen in front of a JD's shop in Hefei city, Anhui Province, China, May 19, 2021. /CFPChina's JD.com's first-quarter revenue beat Wall Street estimate

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4 ways martech will shift in 2021

The tidal wave of growth is upon us — an unprecedented economic boom that will manifest later this year, bringing significant investments, acquisitions, and customer growth. But most tech companies an

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Over 10,000 government and public sector workers targeted by hostile states on social media

The head of MI5 says people working in government and sectors that have access to private information are being targeted.

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Geico admits fraudsters stole customer driver’s license numbers for months

Geico, the second-largest auto insurer in the U.S., has fixed a security bug that let fraudsters steal customer driver’s license numbers from its website.In a data breach notice filed with the C

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Apple to enforce new app privacy notifications in coming weeks

A logo of Apple. /CFP Apple Inc. said on Wednesday that it will start enforcing a new privacy notification rule in the coming weeks, though digital advertising firms such as Facebook Inc. have

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Apple to enforce new app privacy notifications in coming weeks

A logo of Apple. /CFP Apple Inc. said on Wednesday that it will start enforcing a new privacy notification rule in the coming weeks, though digital advertising firms such as Facebook Inc. have

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Stockly lets e-commerce websites sell out-of-stock items from a shared inventory

Meet Stockly, a French startup that keeps the inventory of various e-commerce websites in sync. When you see an out-of-stock item on an e-commerce website, chances are you leave that website and try t

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Two students create a website to help residents get COVID vaccines

02:03 While the U.S. ismaking great strides in its COVID-19 vaccination campaign -- administering nearly 2.5 million doses each day, the process forgettingthose shots continues to be c

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Kargo unveils its new Fabrik publishing system

Digital advertising company Kargo is launching a new product and new business unit called Fabrik.Founder and CEO Harry Kargman explained that Fabrik is a content management system designed for publish

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Americans use robots to get vaccines as new COVID-19 risk rises

CFP As the vaccination rolls out in the U.S., many states have launched government-backed websites for citizens to register for the jabs. But most people have to rely on luck to find an empty

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Police warn students and universities against using 'the Pirate Bay of science'

Sci-Hub has been described as "the Pirate Bay of science", but often receives praise for opening access to research.

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Squarespace raises $300M at staggering $10B valuation

Squarespace has raised $300 million in a round of funding that values the company at a staggering $10 billion valuation.New backers include Dragoneer, Tiger Global, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Manag

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Russia's Restrictions on Twitter Are Meant to Force Compliance With Legislation, Kremlin Says

The restrictions places on Twitter by the Russian media watchdog are aimed at forcing the online giant to comply with national legislation, rather than to block anyone

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Russia sues social media companies over Navalny protests

In what authorities say is a coincidence, at the same time Twitter was throttled the website for the Kremlin went down too.