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Diwali Blackout: How the AWS Outage Crippled Major Apps Across the World
Amazon Web Services (AWS) faced a widespread outage on October 20, disrupting several major platforms, including Apple TV, Reddit, and Snapchat. The outage, lasting nearly 12 hours, coincided with Diwali celebrations in India and affected online businesses running festive campaigns. AWS later attributed the issue to a DNS error in its US-East-1 reg...
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Reddit Says 80 Percent Top Subreddits Open After Blackout Over API Pricing Protest
Reddit said that most of the company’s communities were operating as normal — four days after a protest that shut down thousands of its online forums in protest over its plans to raise fees. In a blog post-Thursday, the company said that 80 percent of its top subreddits, or digital message boards, are currently open. The post was Reddit’s fi...
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Thousands Of Subreddits To Be Made Private In 48-Hour Protest. Here's Why
The protest is mainly because of the new pricing imposed by Reddit on third-party app developers seeking access to the site's APIs.
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In A First, A Social Media Blackout In Kashmir To Curb Street Protests
Concerned that street protests in Kashmir valley were showing no signs of ebbing, the Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday ordered internet service providers to block 22 social media and instant messaging sites including Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter for the next one month in Kashmir.
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On Reddit, Bearing Witness to an (Un)civil Uprising
After three days, things seem to be returning to normal at Reddit, but this incident has shown how even the "front page of the Internet" shouldn't take users for granted.
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Diwali Blackout: How the AWS Outage Crippled Major Apps Across the World
Amazon Web Services (AWS) faced a widespread outage on October 20, disrupting several major platforms, including Apple TV, Reddit, and Snapchat. The outage, lasting nearly 12 hours, coincided with Diwali celebrations in India and affected online businesses running festive campaigns. AWS later attributed the issue to a DNS error in its US-East-1 reg...
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Reddit Says 80 Percent Top Subreddits Open After Blackout Over API Pricing Protest
Reddit said that most of the company’s communities were operating as normal — four days after a protest that shut down thousands of its online forums in protest over its plans to raise fees. In a blog post-Thursday, the company said that 80 percent of its top subreddits, or digital message boards, are currently open. The post was Reddit’s fi...
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Thousands Of Subreddits To Be Made Private In 48-Hour Protest. Here's Why
The protest is mainly because of the new pricing imposed by Reddit on third-party app developers seeking access to the site's APIs.
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In A First, A Social Media Blackout In Kashmir To Curb Street Protests
Concerned that street protests in Kashmir valley were showing no signs of ebbing, the Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday ordered internet service providers to block 22 social media and instant messaging sites including Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter for the next one month in Kashmir.
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On Reddit, Bearing Witness to an (Un)civil Uprising
After three days, things seem to be returning to normal at Reddit, but this incident has shown how even the "front page of the Internet" shouldn't take users for granted.
