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When AWS suffered a series of cascading failures that crashed its systems for hours in late October, the industry was once again reminded of its extreme dependence on major hyperscalers. (As if to ...

Berachain validators today halted the network for an emergency hard fork to address Balancer V2 exploits affecting the blockchain’s ecosystem. The halt specifically targets vulnerabilities in Balancer ...

Balancer, a multi-chain automated market maker, suffered a major exploit that has resulted in an estimated $128 million in losses. Liquidity pools across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and other chains ...

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on Oct. 19 caused significant disruptions to numerous websites and online services. Error messages splashed across users' screens ...

Nothing reminds us of just how dependent we are on the internet than when your favorite app or website is broken. This was the case on October 19, 2025, when users experienced what became a worldwide ...

Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's European correspondent, covering tech policy and Big Tech in the EU and UK. Unofficially, she serves as CNET's Taylor ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Amazon Web Services has explained what went wrong to cause the major ...

An unprecedented Amazon Web Services outage that caused nearly 150 major sites and apps – including Snapchat, Venmo and Roblox – to go dark was apparently caused by a common tech glitch. The 15-hour ...

The outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday originated in the company’s US-EAST-1 region (Northern Virginia). AWS reports the root cause was an internal subsystem failure tied to the ...