22 Aug, 2026

Microsoft confirms outage affecting search in Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft says some users are experiencing issues searching in Microsoft 365 apps, including Outlook on the web, Outlook desktop, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive. According to an incident report seen by GeekFeed and tracked under MO1456424 in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, the root cause is what Microsoft describes as a recent deployment that causes resource utilization problems. […]

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Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services. GitHub confirmed the outage at 9:40 AM EDT on August 17, 2026, when it said it was investigating reports of performance problems affecting some of its services. The problems quickly spread across several […]

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Anthropic confirms Claude is down in major outage affecting multiple services

Claude is experiencing a major outage, with users reporting login problems and degraded performance across several Anthropic services. The incident began on August 16, 2026, at around 21:58 UTC, and is affecting Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. According to Anthropic’s status page, the company first said it was investigating an issue preventing some users from […]

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LexisNexis shuts down services after suspicious activity on servers

LexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline as part of its response to unusual activity on servers hosted and managed by an unnamed third-party vendor. The company said it is investigating the incident with assistance from a cybersecurity forensic firm and is rebuilding affected systems in a new environment before bringing the services […]

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Anthropic confirms Claude is down worldwide

Claude is down for some users, with Anthropic confirming elevated errors across multiple AI models. The disruption is causing requests to fail with a “529 Overloaded” message, including in Claude and tools that rely on its API. Anthropic began investigating the outage at 7:49 p.m. UTC on July 29. At 8:33 p.m. UTC, the company said […]

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OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down worldwide

ChatGPT is experiencing a major outage, and users are unable to load chats, including previous conversations. The outage started at approximately 5 AM ET and is affecting users worldwide, including those in the US and Europe. If you are affected, ChatGPT will get stuck at loading animations for the sidebar, and you won’t be able […]

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Microsoft blames massive Microsoft 365 outage on maintenance bug

Microsoft says a bug in its automated network maintenance request system caused Thursday’s massive outage by mistakenly removing IP routes from more devices than intended, disrupting Azure and Microsoft 365 services. The outage began at 10:44 AM ET on Thursday, July 23, and mostly affected customers accessing Microsoft 365 services through network infrastructure connected to […]

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Microsoft 365 outage affects Teams, SharePoint and other services

Microsoft is impacted by a massive outage affecting Teams and Microsoft 365 services, primarily affecting users in North America. At 11:11 AM ET on July 23, Downdetector recorded 2,403 reports, sharply above its normal baseline of 29. SharePoint accounted for 78% of the complaints, followed by Excel at 11% and the Microsoft 365 Admin Center at 6% […]

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Microsoft Exchange Online outage causes email delays, failures

Microsoft is working to address a widespread service issue affecting the mail flow pipeline for Exchange Online customers across North America, Asia-Pacific (APAC), and Europe. The company first acknowledged this incident (tracked under EX1331830) at 10:33 EDT, when it began investigating a stream of reports from users on social media. Some affected users are seeing temporary SMTP deferral errors, stating “The maximum […]

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Microsoft investigates Office Apps, Teams file access issues

Microsoft says an ongoing incident is preventing users of its Teams collaboration platform and Office for the web cloud-based productivity suite from opening files. “We’re investigating reports that some users are unable to open files in Office for the web or Microsoft Teams,” the company’s Microsoft 365 Status tweeted earlier. According to further information shared […]

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