Apple has acknowledged a bug in Screen Time that causes parental settings to be reset. The company has confirmed that they are working on a solution, but no specific timeline has been provided.
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A weird bug was locking out users from their accounts and serving them with suspension notices even if no community guidelines were violated. Instagram has since worked on the issue and fixed it.
Instagram users are reporting that they are unable to log in, losing account access, receiving suspension notices and content getting deleted. Instagram has tweeted that it is looking into the matter.
2020 ends in a few days, which makes now the perfect time to take a look back at some events and happenings in the tech landscape which caught us off-guard, for better or for worse.
In our always-on world, data center downtime is not an option, unfortunately, inefficient data center policies can mean that continuous availability comes at an unnecessarily high price.
For the second time in two months, customers of the Australian mobile network Telstra have taken advantage of a free data day. Despite collectively using 2,686 terabytes of data, not all were happy.
A major outage to the Australia's largest mobile network, Telstra, has left millions of customers without access to phone and data service. Currently, the service is still sporadically having issues.
There are widespread reports from users around the world unable to access their cloud storage on Microsoft OneDrive. Access has now been restored to some, but the problem persists for many others.
Nominees for the MTV Video Music Awards should have been announced on Beats 1 today. Instead, the radio station is down, along with Apple Music, iTunes, the App Store, Apple TV and other key services.
A number of different Xbox services are down, including Xbox Fitness and Call of Duty for Xbox 360. There are no details on exactly what is happening, but Microsoft appears aware of the issues.
Google's Compute Engine, a central part of Google's Cloud Platform, is down without any specific details being posted by Google besides "Multiple services reporting issues" being listed.
After hacker group Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for two Xbox Live outages last week, the same group has taken credit for bringing down Sony's PlayStation Network today.
As we prepare to upgrade to Invision Board 3.4.5 we need to make changes to our huge (8+GB) database, and that requires among other things a database conversion.
The GoDaddy.com domain name and website hosting service is giving its many customers a one month credit as compensation for the downtime that hit the company on Monday.
In a post on Twitter's blog, the social networking service says that a "infrastructural double-whammy" was the reason behind the latest extended outage for tens of millions of users.
The Twitter.com website is currently experiencing some downtime with users in the US unable to access the social networking web site. The mobile apps that connect to Twitter don't work either.
Microsoft has admitted that there was an issue with its Windows Azure cloud-based services earlier this week that resulted in Azure experiencing downtime for nearly 10 hours.
It looks like Facebook may have been down for the first time that we can remember, with the site being unresponsive. AnonSec has claimed responsibility, however, is it just a coincedence?
BlackBerry services are down, once again. For most users in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, email, messaging, and web are unavailable, with little word from RIM on the status of things.
Users flood Twitter as Facebook goes down either entirely or partially for many users, however, the service is still accessible for some
Google's blogging and online publishing service, Blogger, has been suffering from something that is all too familiar to one of its main rivals, Tumblr: the service has been down since around half past noon PDT...
Twitter has been experiencing ongoing problems with displaying home timelines today and has continuously been disabling features. At first, the company decided to revert back to its old design; then, just a few minutes later,...
On the internet, no one can hear you scream. At least not if Skype is offline, as was the case for several hours today. Users around the globe began reporting problems signing in to the popular...
Neowin is currently upgrading its forums to Invision Power Board 3. During this time, the forums will be inaccessible. This upgrade started at 8:30 GMT, and we expect it to continue well into tonight. By...
The Neowin Forums have returned to their online status. Despite a weekend of almost nonstop work by myself, Dave, Tim, Rob, and multiple outside sources from Invision and elsewhere, we were unable to make Invision...
Google Incorported is having problems keeping its uptime pledge to some paying customers of its Google Apps suite of hosted services. Little over a month after introducing Google Apps' Premier version, which includes a 99.99%...
As JediXAngel pointed out in the forums, Microsoft is planning on taking down the Xbox Live service for the entire day on Tuesday October 17th. The downtime will begin at 12 midnight Pacific time on...
Last night one of our apache servers died, we don't know why or what caused it and we are still waiting for our server admin to respond to an email we sent. Also the forum...
The staff at Neowin would like to thank you for your continued patience as we work to improve the site. As you probably know, we are continually working on the performance of the site...
On Tuesday 29th of November we will be closing both neowin and neowin5.net so that we can shift all the data to the new servers. This transition will take place early Tuesday morning on Central...
ActiveWin has been unreachable for me since I last checked late Saturday, I caught up with Bob Stein, AW's frontman, and he was able to offer this response. We wish them a speedy recovery because...
Thanks to DrEaMiNgWeB for mailing us with this bit of news. For all of you out there with dot.tk domain names...., Dot.tk one of the largest free url redirection...
Just in from those nice people at geocities. "Dear Yahoo! GeoCities Member, GeoCities will be performing scheduled maintenance starting Friday, May 17th, 2002 at 9:00 pm PST (GMT-7). Service will...
Degger sends me notice that our affiliate and friends from Warp2search are back ! Below is an excerpt from the announcement o their site: What has happend the last days? Well,...
Our host let us know that we should let everyone know that after speaking with the data center where our server is located, there will be some down time while traffic is re-routed to other...
There has been alot of speculation as to what caused our downtime, I am posting this to end that speculation. We experienced database errors when we moved to the new server. Moving an mysql database...
As you may of noticed we suffered some downtime today, this is because our hosts ISP decided to catch up on some line work today (what with it being a free day in the States)...
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