Big Tech

The prolonged outage offered a reminder of the fragility of global internet connectivity and Amazon’s role underpinning much of online infrastructure.

The outage at Amazon services has impacted over 1,000 companies and affected millions of internet users.

Amazon Web Services, a cloud service provider, said most services were back up. Hulu, Snapchat and the British government’s official site were among those affected.

Employee activism has put some tech workers at odds with their bosses and tested internal policies at Microsoft and Google

The U.K.’s Online Safety Act took effect last Friday, requiring proof of age to access certain content

Age verification is well intentioned but it creates new privacy risks

Amazon, Apple, Google are all being accused of abusing legal privilege in battles to strip away their power