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Apple must face lawsuit over iCloud storage, judge rules

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-03-12 15:36:19

Apple’s iCloud storage policies are unpopular with users for a variety of reasons. And according to a judge’s ruling, certain aspects of those policies might just be monopolistic, as Apple’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit related to iCloud storage has just been denied. Here’s what that means. iCloud storage lawsuit against Apple is moving forward in California Mike Scarcella writes at Reuters: Apple must face a proposed class action accusing the iPhone maker of illegally monopolizing the market

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US court denies Apple’s request to dismiss antitrust case concerning iCloud

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-03-12 19:18:20

A California district court on Monday denied a request by Apple to throw out a class action lawsuit that alleges the iPhone maker violates competition laws by forcing users of its devices to back up their critical files and device settings on its cloud storage service, iCloud. The complaint also accuses Apple of not allowing third-party cloud services to access certain files, and preventing them from offering a “full-service” storage that competes with iCloud. U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee had

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Tencent bets its China WeChat and gaming expertise will help it win cloud business in Europe

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2026-03-13 03:37:02

Chinese tech company Tencent is a gaming giant and the parent company of WeChat, the ubiquitous social messaging app in China. Tencent has spent years evolving into a gaming and social media giant in China and in the process, has built up its cloud computing capabilities. The technology firm is now looking to bring that expertise to Europe as it ramps up expansion of its cloud business overseas, Dowson Tong, CEO of Tencent's cloud group told CNBC. "We have strengths and competence in very spe

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The cracks in the OpenAI-Microsoft relationship are reportedly widening

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-03-13 01:40:51

In Brief OpenAI and Microsoft may be reaching an inflection point in their relationship, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The report, citing anonymous sources, says OpenAI executives have considered publicly accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior throughout their partnership. OpenAI executives also mulled whether to seek a federal regulatory review of their contract with Microsoft. OpenAI is trying to loosen Microsoft’s grip on its intellectual property and computin

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Cutting cloud waste at scale: Akamai saves 70% using AI agents orchestrated by kubernetes

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2026-03-13 08:11:15

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Particularly in this dawning era of generative AI, cloud costs are at an all-time high. But that’s not merely because enterprises are using more compute — they’re not using it efficiently. In fact, just this year, enterprises are expected to waste $44.5 billion on unnecessary cloud spending. This is an amplified problem for Akamai Technol

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43% of games skipped GPU upgrade to pay rent instead | Liquid Web

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-03-13 15:35:00

About 43% of gamers skipped a graphics processing unit (GPU) upgrade just to pay rent, according to a new report by Liquid Web. Based on a survey of 1,000 PC gamers, Liquid Web came up with a variety of conclusions about what affects the buying decisions of gamers. And clearly they’re pretty price sensitive now. Liquid Web surveyed the PC gamers to uncover what drives today’s graphics card decisions. The company noted that cloud gaming is a way for players to deal with the high costs of upgrad

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Google issues apology, incident report for hourslong cloud outage

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-03-13 19:10:22

Google apologized for a major outage that the company said was caused by multiple layers of flawed recent updates. The company released an incident report late on Friday that explained hours of downtime on Thursday. More than 70 Google cloud services stopped working properly across the globe, knocking down or disrupting dozens of third-party services, including Cloudflare , OpenAI and Shopify . Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Meet and other first-party products also malfunctioned.

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Google issues apology, incident report for hours-long cloud outage

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-03-14 04:19:13

Google apologized for a major outage that the company said was caused by multiple layers of flawed recent updates. The company released an incident report late on Friday that explained hours of downtime on Thursday. More than 70 Google cloud services stopped working properly across the globe, knocking down or disrupting dozens of third-party services, including Cloudflare , OpenAI and Shopify . Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Meet and other first-party products also malfunctioned.

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Oracle's stock closes out best week since 2001 on cloud momentum

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-03-15 20:08:43

Oracle CEO Safra Catz speaks at the FII PRIORITY Summit in Miami Beach, Florida, on Feb. 20, 2025. Oracle shares enjoyed their best week since 2001 as Wall Street cheered a strong earnings report and bullish comments on the company's prospects in cloud computing. The stock jumped about 24% for the week, with almost all the gains coming in the two trading days after the company's quarterly earnings release. The last time Oracle had a better week was in April 2001, in the midst of the dot-com cr

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Oracle's stock on pace for best week since 2001 on cloud momentum

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-03-15 23:36:15

Oracle shares are on pace for their best week since 2001 as Wall Street cheers a strong earnings report and bullish comments on the company's prospects in cloud computing. The stock is up about 24% for the week, with almost all the gains coming in the two trading days after the company's quarterly earnings release. The last time Oracle had a better week was in April 2001, in the midst of the dot-com crash, when so-called dead-cat bounces were common. The prior quarter Oracle shares lost almost

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Google links massive cloud outage to API management issue

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-16 07:39:02

Google says an API management issue is behind Thursday's massive Google Cloud outage, which disrupted or brought down its services and many other online platforms. Google says the cloud outage started around 10:49 ET and ended at 3:49 ET, after causing issues for millions of users worldwide for over three hours. Besides Google Cloud, the incident also impacted Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Cloud Search, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Meet, Google Tasks, Google Voice, Google Le

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The cloud broke Thursday and it'll happen again - how to protect your business before then

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-03-16 11:54:00

Akaradech Pramoonsin/Getty Images After a rocky Thursday afternoon on the internet, both Google and Cloudflare services appear to be operating normally as of Friday morning. When trouble started, the question wasn't what's wrong with what cloud service; it was, what service isn't down? Also: The best cloud storage services of 2025: Expert tested What happened on Thursday? First, this was not just an American problem. Google Cloud reported that it was a global problem. Google stated that mult

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Some apps are battery vampires - how to root them out and shut them down

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-03-16 16:14:11

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Running low on battery power is a common complaint among mobile phone users. Beyond complaining, you want to preserve the juice before it runs out. One way to do that is to determine which apps are draining your battery the most. Here's one expert who can steer you in the right direction. Blame the cloud In an analysis shared with ZDNET, Thomas Davy, CEO and co-founder of cloud optimization firm Cloud ExMachina, blames one particular factor for bat

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Cloudflare: Outage not caused by security incident, data is safe

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-17 12:09:24

Cloudflare has confirmed that the massive service outage yesterday was not caused by a security incident and no data has been lost. The issue has been largely mitigated. It started 17:52 UTC yesterday when the Workers KV (Key-Value) system went completely offline, causing widespread service losses across multiple edge computing and AI services. Workers KV is a globally distributed, consistent key-value store used by Cloudflare Workers, the company’s serverless computing platform. It is a funda

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We Tested the DreamCloud Mattress: Could It Be the Best Budget Luxury Bed in 2025?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-17 08:02:00

With 5+ years of mattress testing experience, we use our different sleeping position and body type perspectives to offer well-rounded, honest reviews. 8.0 /10 SCORE CNET Score With five-plus years of mattress testing experience, we use our different sleeping position and body type perspectives to offer well-rounded, honest reviews. Read more on How we test Our Verdict Our Verdict Best for: Back sleeper Stomach sleeper Score Breakdown Performance 8 /10 Policies 8.5 /10 Durability 8.5 /10 Feature

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PSA: Widespread internet outage affects Spotify, Google, Discord, Cloudflare, more [U: Fixed]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-17 07:06:57

Update: The issue has now been resolved. The original post follows below. If you’re having trouble accessing multiple major services today, you’re definitely not alone. Reports from users, and confirmed by data from Downdetector, indicate a widespread internet outage is currently impacting a wide range of popular platforms and infrastructure providers. Among the affected services: Spotify Google services (including Google Cloud, Meet, Drive, and Nest) Discord CharacterAI Snapchat Cloudfl

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Cloud collapse: Replit and LlamaIndex knocked offline by Google Cloud identity outage

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2026-03-17 19:05:33

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Days after OpenAI and Google Cloud announced a partnership to support the growing use of generative AI platforms, much of the AI-powered web and tools went down due to an outage of the leading cloud providers. Google Cloud Service Platform (GCP) and some Cloudflare services began experiencing issues around 10:00 a.m. PT today, affecting s

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Oracle shares pop 13% to record high on earnings beat, cloud optimism

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-03-18 03:26:07

Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder, chief technology officer and chairman, at right, and U.S. President Donald Trump share a laugh as Ellison uses a stool to stand on as he speaks during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 21, 2025. Trump announced an investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and took questions on a range of topics including his presidential pardons of Jan. 6 defendants, the war in Ukraine, cryptocurrencies and other t

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Google suffers cloud outage, causing disruptions for OpenAI, Shopify and other services

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-03-18 03:22:54

A visitor walks past a Google Cloud sign at the booth of Google during the Hanover technology Fair (Hannover Messe) on April 22, 2024 in Hanover, northern Germany, with Norway as partner country. Google's cloud suffered significant global outages on Thursday, knocking down or disrupting a number of large internet services. "We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products," a status page from Google Cloud showed, indicating that the outages began at 10:51 a.m. PT. "Our engineering

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PSA: Widespread internet outage affects Spotify, Google, Discord, Cloudflare, more [U]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-18 03:06:57

If you’re having trouble accessing multiple major services today, you’re definitely not alone. Reports from users, and confirmed by data from Downdetector, indicate a widespread internet outage is currently impacting a wide range of popular platforms and infrastructure providers. Among the affected services: Spotify Google services (including Google Cloud, Meet, Drive, and Nest) Discord CharacterAI Snapchat Cloudflare Pokemon TCG Live FuboTV Etsy Downdetector has logged massive spikes

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Massive cloud outage knocks out internet services across the globe

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-03-18 03:42:00

Tetra Images/Getty Images The question now isn't what's wrong with what cloud service, it's what service isn't down? There's a storm in the air where I'm writing, but it's nothing like the one roiling the clouds at this time. Across the social networks, there are numerous reports that Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Cloudflare, the content delivery network (CDN), are all down. As one software engineer put it, "How can Google Cloud, AWS, and Cloudflare all be down at the same time

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Google Cloud outage brings down a lot of the internet

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-03-18 03:34:10

Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify. It appears that a Google Cloud outage is at the root of these other service disruptions. Google Cloud said it started investigating service issues affecting its customers at 11:46 a.m. PT. The company still does not have an ETA for when its services will be back online. “We are currently investigating a service disruption to some Google Cloud se

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Google cloud and other internet services are reporting outages

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-03-18 08:31:03

A visitor walks past a Google Cloud sign at the booth of Google during the Hanover technology Fair (Hannover Messe) on April 22, 2024 in Hanover, northern Germany, with Norway as partner country. Google's cloud was suffering from global outages on Thursday, as were other cloud-based services. Users on social media reported that several major internet services were experiencing disruptions due to Google cloud platforms. "We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products," a status

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Google Cloud and Cloudflare hit by widespread service outages

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-18 08:04:22

Google Cloud and Cloudflare are investigating ongoing outages impacting access to sites and various services across multiple regions. Cloudflare first acknowledged these issues less than 30 minutes ago when it reported Access authentication failures and Cloudflare Zero Trust WARP connectivity issues. "We are seeing a number of services suffer intermittent failures. We are continuing to investigate this and we will update this list as we assess the impact on a per-service level," it added in a

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A massive Google Cloud outage messed up Google Home, Spotify, and other services

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2026-03-18 08:55:09

Our engineers have identified the root cause and have applied appropriate mitigations. While our engineers have confirmed that the underlying dependency is recovered in all locations except us-central1, we are aware that customers are still experiencing varying degrees of impact on individual google cloud products. All the respective engineering teams are actively engaged and working on service recovery. We do not have an ETA for full service recovery. We will provide an update by Thursday, 2

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A lot of the internet is down right now

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-03-18 08:34:10

Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify. It appears that a Google Cloud outage may be at the root of these other service disruptions. Google Cloud said it started investigating service issues affecting its customers at 11:46am PT. The company still does not have an ETA for when its services will be back online. “We are currently investigating a service disruption to some Google Cloud s

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GCP Outage

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-18 11:11:07

This page provides status information on the services that are part of Google Cloud. Check back here to view the current status of the services listed below. If you are experiencing an issue not listed here, please contact Support . Learn more about what's posted on the dashboard in this FAQ . For additional information on these services, please visit https://cloud.google.com/

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Oracle shares pop 15% to record high on earnings beat, cloud optimism

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-03-18 19:43:15

Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder, chief technology officer and chairman, at right, and U.S. President Donald Trump share a laugh as Ellison uses a stool to stand on as he speaks during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 21, 2025. Trump announced an investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and took questions on a range of topics including his presidential pardons of Jan. 6 defendants, the war in Ukraine, cryptocurrencies and other t

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OpenAI will reportedly start using Google's cloud servers

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-18 06:23:12

This is another move by the company to diversify its compute portfolio beyond Microsoft Azure. OpenAI has inked a deal with Google to begin using the latter's cloud service to meet its growing needs for increased computing capacity, according to a report by Reuters . This is something of a surprise, given that Google and OpenAI are rivals in the AI space. The terms of the deal remain unknown, but reporting indicates it has been in the negotiation phase for the past several months. This marks O

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Asset sprawl, siloed data and CloudQuery’s search for unified cloud governance

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2026-03-19 14:30:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Gaining visibility — and, ultimately, insights — into enterprise cloud assets is growing ever more challenging. Cloud estates are sprawling and fragmented, and inventory capabilities in existing tools can be narrow and unintuitive, separating elements like cost and security data into disconnected platforms with limited flexibility. Cloud

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