a lot of newspaper sites, amazon, reddit, twitch. people visiting them got a message saying error 503, service unavailable . it appears to have been all down to a company called fastly, which is a cloud computing provider which provides all sorts of essential services to websites. think of it as a traffic management system, guiding the traffic to them in a smooth way. well, it had a major problem. it s put out a statement saying, we identified a service configuration that triggered disruption globally and have disabled that configuration . to translate that, it was not a hacking attack, it was some issue with this company. what that s highlighted isjust how few companies we depend on to basically run the internet and if they go wrong, everything falls apart. around 3% of adults have a stammer that s according to the british stammering association. and one of those with the condition is the former scotland rugby union captain kelly brown. he has been speaking
amazon, the guardian and the new york times sites. (our technology correspondent rory cellan jones explained what happened this was a pretty serious outage. vast range of sites. a lot of newspaper sites, amazon, there was a message saying error 503 service unavailable. it appears to be all down to a company called fast leaf which provides all sorts of essential services to websites. think of it as a traffic management system guiding traffic to them in a smooth way. it had a major problem and has put out a statement saying we identify the service configuration that triggered disruption globally and have disabled that consideration. it was not a hacking attack, it was some issue with this company. what that has highlighted isjust how issue with this company. what that
today in the senate. democrats were unable to get those ten republican senators to get the support behind this. they clearly were not willing to blow up the filibuster over this, manchin made that clear. thanks so much. appreciate it. all right. breaking overnight, a new major hack against the state department s international aid agency. thousands of emails compromised, microsoft says it s the work of the same russian intelligence hackers who launched last winter s solar winds attack. the new target here dozens of human rights and other groups that have been critical of russian president vladimir putin. matthew chance is live for news moscow this morning. matthew, what more are you learning about this hack? reporter: well, all we ve got so far is what microsoft have blogged about in terms of what they ve identified in terms of this hacking attack which has been taking place as recently as this week in the united states with usaid and with other aid agencies and non-government org
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