Apple suffered a widespread outage, knocking services such as Apple Music, iCloud and the App Store offline for some users and even affecting its internal corporate and retail systems. The problems prevented corporate employees from working from home and kept retail staff from completing tasks, according to workers. The outage hindered product repairs, swaps and…
Sky’s mobile, TV and broadband customers are bracing for price rises of up to £43 a year, in a further blow to cash-strapped families. The Succession broadcaster is enforcing an average price increase of £3.60 per month, with BT Sport and Sky Cinema packages rising by £1 a piece to £28 and £12 respectively. Most…
Every day billions of people send private messages as an essential part of daily life – to check in with family and friends, talk to their child’s teacher, and even communicate with doctors. It’s why apps that use end-to-end encryption – where only the sender and recipient can access the contents of a message –…
Swathes of the internet including Amazon, Reddit and many news outlets went offline on Tuesday following a glitch affecting a relatively obscure cloud computing company. Dozens of major websites and hundreds overall were rendered inaccessible when Fastly started experiencing issues, leaving the likes of the Government’s gov.uk domain, streaming services Twitch and Spotify unavailable for…
