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DeepSeek experienced a major outage lasting more than seven hours over the weekend, with users reporting issues on Sunday evening. The cause remains unclear.

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YouTube is experiencing an outage across the United States, with users in other countries like India and the Philippines also having problems with accessing the website. The issue seems to have started at around 8AM Eastern time and reached 326,000 reports in Downdetector before starting to taper down. More users reported having issues accessing the app, but I personally lost access to the homepage first.

It was the time of Novell networks, RG58 cables, and bulky tower PCs. It was also a time before the telemarketer's IT department employed specialists. Carter and his two colleagues - boss Mike and part-time student Stefan - therefore handled tasks ranging from programming to support, and everything in between.

An observability control plane isn't just a dashboard. It's the operational authority system. It defines alert rules, routing, ownership, escalation policy, and notification endpoints. When that layer is wrong, the impact is immediate. The wrong team gets paged. The right team never hears about the incident. Your service level indicators look clean while production burns.

Altogether, Cloudflare reported in its 2025 fourth quarter analysis that it observed more than 180 internet disruptions worldwide over the course of 2025, ranging from short, localized incidents to multiday nationwide outages. The most dramatic outages involved physical infrastructure failures, especially submarine cables and national power grids. For example, in Haiti, Digicel suffered two separate international fiber cuts in October and November, pushing traffic on its network close to zero during one incident and triggering multi‑hour outages until repairs were completed.