November 16, 20240 Comments

Netflix down for thousands of users in United States, Downdetector says By Reuters

(Reuters) -Netflix was down for thousands of users in the United States late on Friday, with more than 12,000 incidents reported, outage tracking website Downdetector.com said. The reports come as Netflix (NASDAQ:) airs a much-anticipated live boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, that promises to draw high traffic to the platform. The number of users indicating problems had fallen to 5,114, by 9:21 p.m. ET, however, according to

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November 15, 20240 Comments

X users jump to Bluesky

Getty You may have seen the word “Bluesky” popping up on your social media pages recently and wondered what people are talking about. It is an alternative platform to Elon Musk’s X and in terms of its colour and logo, it looks quite similar. Bluesky is growing rapidly and is currently picking up around one million new sign-ups a day. It had 16.7m users at the time of writing, but

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November 12, 20240 Comments

Netflix’s ad-supported tier hits 70 million users By Reuters

(Reuters) -Netflix said on Tuesday its ad-supported tier had reached 70 million monthly active users globally, nearly doubling from about six months earlier as customers seek more affordable options. The plan, priced at $6.99 per month in the U.S., now accounts for more than half of all new Netflix (NASDAQ:) sign-ups in regions where it is available. It reached 40 million global monthly active users in May. Netflix’s cheapest plan

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November 12, 20240 Comments

Netflix ad-supported tier has 70 million monthly users

People wait in a line to enter “The Lab,” a “Stranger Things” Netflix series experience in Madrid on June 2, 2022. Beata Zawrzel/ | Nurphoto | Getty Images Netflix’s cheaper, ad-supported tier has reached 70 million global monthly active users two years after it was launched. The company said Tuesday more than 50% of its new sign-ups are for ad-supported plans in countries that offer the option. Netflix said it

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November 9, 20240 Comments

Some LinkedIn users are being put off the platform by flirtatious DMs

Chinese spies used Linkedin to get information on German officials, according to Germany’s intelligence agency bfV. studioEAST | Getty Images Some LinkedIn users have reported receiving unsolicited flirtatious messages via the platform, with expert Bernie Hogan at the Oxford Internet Institute saying the employment-focused social website is increasingly being used for dating purposes. Blair Huddy, founder and CEO at Hudson Davis Communications, told CNBC Make It that one LinkedIn user

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November 9, 20240 Comments

OpenAI’s ChatGPT faces massive outage with thousands of users impacted By Reuters

(Reuters) – Microsoft-backed OpenAI said on Friday night it is facing an issue that has resulted in its popular chatbot ChatGPT being unavailable. The company said in a statement on its website that it was investigating the issue and working to restore functionality as soon as possible. Over 19,403 users had been impacted by the outage as of 7:13 p.m. ET (0013 GMT on Saturday), according to outage tracking website

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