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Massive internet outage: Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify all down, users report
Update: June 13, 2025, 12:44 p.m. ET — Read our latest report on the possible causes of Thursday's internet outages.
UPDATE: June 13, 2025, 9:45 a.m. ET — Google Cloud reported that all services had "been fully restored" following the large-scale disruption on Thursday. The company pointed to a statement from Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on X.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.Popular IT provider Cloudflare, meanwhile, reported it was fully recovered and that the outage on Thursday lasted a total of 2 hours and 28 minutes.
"We’re deeply sorry for this outage: this was a failure on our part, and while the proximate cause (or trigger) for this outage was a third-party vendor failure, we are ultimately responsible for our chosen dependencies and how we choose to architect around them," it wrote in a blog post.
UPDATE: June 12, 2025, 9:30 p.m. ET — At 9:27 p.m. ET, Google Cloud reported that "All the services are fully recovered from the service issue." An update from the company stated: "We will publish analysis of this incident once we have completed our internal investigation."
UPDATE: June 12, 2025, 6:50 p.m. ET — As of this writing, error reports at Down Detector have dwindled, and hosting platforms like Google Cloud and Cloudflare report that known issues were resolved. As for the cause of the widespread internet outages, a Cloudflare representative claimed that Google Cloud was responsible for the disruption. Read our original story below.
Is the entire internet down?
Around 2:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, June 12, users started reporting widespread service disruptions at popular websites and apps, including Twitch, Gmail, Discord, Nintendo Switch Online, Spotify, and dozens of other platforms. By 3:30 p.m., some services were restored, although ongoing outages continued.
The service Down Detector showed a spike in error messages across the internet, and users took to social media to complain of problems at their favorite websites. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.) Mashable reporters experienced problems accessing some Google services, such as Google Meet, when the outage first occurred.
Credit: Down DetectorCloudflare, a popular IT management company that provides hosting services, is among the services disrupted by the massive internet outage. Cloudflare reported "Broad Cloudflare service outages" on its website on Thursday afternoon. The company initially reported that they are "continuing to investigate this issue." However, a more recent message stated, "We are starting to see services recover. We still expect to see intermittent errors across the impacted services as systems handle retried and caches are filled."
At the same time, a Google Cloud status page stated, "Multiple GCP products are experiencing Service issues."
According to Down Detector, the following sites are experiencing a spike in user error reports:
Discord
Google (Google Cloud, Gmail, Google Meet, and others)
Spotify
Twitch
character.ai
Rocket league
Cloudflare
Etsy
Pokémon Trading card game
Snapchat
fuboTV
Anthropic (maker of Claude)
Shopify
Gemini
MLB.tv
Doordash
Ikea
Equifax
Marvel
Vimeo
Nintendo Switch Online
Gitlan
Calendly
Disruptions to services like Cloudflare, Google Cloud, and Shopify could cause ripple effects across the internet. And because the disruption occurred during work hours, frustrated workers are complaining of problems accessing tools like Google Meet. As of 3:35 p.m., many of the impacted websites appeared to be recovering, according to user reports on Down Detector.
On social media sites like X, confused users reacted in real-time to the widespread service disruptions across the internet.
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UPDATE: Jun. 12, 2025, 4:40 p.m. EDT This story has been updated with additional details about the widespread internet service disruption. An earlier version of this story stated that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was impacted by the outages; however, an Amazon representative told Mashable this is not the case. An AWS spokesperson said, "Currently there are no board service issues with AWS."
Cloudflare outage: What to know, latest updates
UPDATE: Jun. 12, 2025, 5:06 p.m. EDT According to the Cloudflare status page, the service issues have been fully resolved. "All Cloudflare services have been restored and are now fully operational," the company wrote. "We are moving the incident to Monitoring while we watch platform metrics to confirm sustained stability."
Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday afternoon, affecting a wide variety of services, including Cloudflare.
Down Detector showed a spike of user-reported issues for the popular IT tool, but it was far from alone. User-reported issues for major sites and services flooded in. Sites like Spotify, Google, Snapchat, Discord, Nintendo, Character.ai, and more all saw spikes on Down Detector. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.)
Cloudflare has provided regular updates on the issues on its status page. Most recently, it wrote: "Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency." That update was posted online at about 4 p.m. ET, indicating the problems persisted, to some degree, hours after it was first identified.
"Cloudflare engineers are working to restore services immediately," the company added. "We are aware of the deep impact this outage has caused and are working with all hands on deck to restore all services as quickly as possible."
The large spike on Down Detector has begun to trend downward and, in an earlier update at about 3:15 p.m. ET, the company noted it was "starting to see services recover" but still expected "intermittent errors." According to the most recent updates, the service issues have been resolved.
What is Cloudflare?Cloudflare, in short, supplies IT management for lots of businesses. The idea is it improves website security, hosting, and functionality and, apparently, works with many of the sites you might come across daily.
"Cloudflare powers Internet requests for millions of websites and serves 78 million HTTP requests per second on average," its site reads.
So, a disruption to Cloudflare could cause ripple effects across the digital world.
This is a developing story and will be updated as new details emerge.
Amazon, other major online retailers still working amid major internet outage
Amazon and other major online retailers' websites are still working amid this afternoon's massive internet outage, but they're taking their time to load.
The outage appears to be affecting dozens of online services, including the ecommerce platform Shopify. Walmart and Target rely on Shopify to support their third-party marketplace sellers.
SEE ALSO: Massive internet outage: Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify all down, users reportMashable reporters were able to add products to their cart and get through the checkout process on Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and eBay as well as several online stores that use Shopify (Sennheiser, Good American, Allbirds, Brooklinen, and Netflix). However, all sites we tried were very slow to load.
It's still unclear what exactly caused today's outage.
This story is developing.
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Massive June 12 internet outage explained: What we know so far (updated)
UPDATE: June 13, 2025, 10:45 a.m ET — The massive internet outage that struck Thursday afternoon appeared to be fully resolved. Read more about the possible cause of the disruption.
Google Cloud wrote that all services had "been fully restored" in its latest statement. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian also wrote on X that the company regretted "the disruption this caused our customers."
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.Cloudflare, a popular IT provider, meanwhile, reported it was fully recovered after an outage that lasted about 2.5 hours.
"We’re deeply sorry for this outage: this was a failure on our part, and while the proximate cause (or trigger) for this outage was a third-party vendor failure, we are ultimately responsible for our chosen dependencies and how we choose to architect around them," it wrote in a blog post.
On Thursday afternoon, a massive list of popular internet services all started experiencing outages at the same time.
Thousands of confused internet users took to Google and social media to ask why they couldn't log into their favorite websites and apps. The front page of Down Detector was a menagerie of spiking orange line graphs, starting around 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, June 12. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.)
So, what caused the outage?
Here's what we know so far.
What's causing the service outage?In a statement to Mashable, a representative for hosting platform Cloudflare pointed the blame at Google Cloud. In addition, the Cloudflare status page attributed the service to "an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency" for Cloudflare services.
Initial speculation focused on internet hosting platforms like Cloudflare and Google Cloud, as both companies reported problems Thursday. An initial update on the Cloudflare status page stated, "We are seeing a number of services suffer intermittent failures. We are continuing to investigate this and we will update this list as we assess the impact on a per-service level." And at the Google Cloud status page, the company reported that "Multiple GCP products are experiencing Service issues."
On Friday, a Google Cloud spokesperson provided this statement to Mashable: "Following a disruption to a number of Google Cloud services, all products have now been fully restored."
What's happening at Google Cloud?By 5:15 p.m. ET on Thursday, the Google Cloud status page stated, "Most of the Google Cloud products are fully recovered," though some "residual impacts" continued. By Thursday evening, service had been fully restored, ending the Google Cloud outage.
A previous update on the page said: "We have identified the root cause and applied appropriate mitigations. Our infrastructure has recovered in all regions except us-central1. Google Cloud products that rely on the affected infrastructure are seeing recovery in multiple locations. Our engineers are aware of the customers still experiencing issues on us-central1 and multi-region/us and are actively working on full recovery. We do not have an ETA for full recovery."
What does Down Detector say?Starting around 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, June 12, Down Detector, a platform where users can report issues with popular websites and apps, received an avalanche of user reports, with Google Services, popular AI platforms, and e-commerce websites all affected. Social apps like Twitch, Nintendo Switch Online, and Discord all received a spike in error reports as well.
Even more services. Credit: Screenshot: Downdetector Some impacted services. Credit: Screenshot: Downdetector More services. Credit: Screenshot: DowndetectorThe spike in outage reports started to calm down by 3:30 p.m., and after a few hours, most platforms seemed to be operating normally again.
Is Google down?During the initial outage, Down Detector users reported problems to a variety of Google services, although Google Search and Gmail appeared to be working for most users. Multiple Mashable reporters also experienced problems accessing services such as Google Meet. Google Cloud experienced issues, which would help explain why so many Google services were struggling.
What websites, apps, and platforms were affected?As of 3:20 p.m. ET on Thursday, dozens of popular platforms were down or experiencing disruptions. According to Down Detector, the following sites reported a surge in error messages:
Discord
Google and all related services (e.g. YouTube, Google Meet)
Spotify
Twitch
Character.ai
Rocket League
Cloudflare
Etsy
Pokémon Trading Card Game
Snapchat
fuboTV
Anthropic
Shopify
Gemini
MLB.tv
Doordash
Ikea
Equifax
Marvel
Vimeo
Nintendo Switch Online
Gitlab
Calendly
Bluesky
Grok
Fortnite
Apple Music
Netflix
Disney Plus
Prime Video
This story is developing...
UPDATE: Jun. 12, 2025, 6:30 p.m. EDT This story has been updated with additional details about the widespread internet service disruption. An earlier version of this story stated that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was impacted by the outages; however, an Amazon representative told Mashable this is not the case. An AWS spokesperson said, "Currently there are no board service issues with AWS."
The internet is down. Social media is not taking it well.
Countless sites and services — stalwarts like Twitch, Gmail, Discord, Nintendo, and more — went down on Thursday afternoon, eastern time. The internet, even as large swaths of it went down, was quick to react on social media. And, in short, people were freaking out.
People posted screenshots of Down Detector, which showed, well, just about everything was out. It's worth noting that Down Detector registers user-reported issues, so you still may have access to sites experiencing spikes. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.)
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This story is developing and will be updated as needed...
Is Google down? Users report issues with Google Meet, Nest, and more
If you're having trouble with Google right now, you're not alone.
On Downdetector, users started reporting outages with Google around 1:30 p.m. EST — so you're not the only person experiencing tech issues today. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Downdetector.)
SEE ALSO: Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI are all downAnd Google Search isn't the only thing on the internet struggling right now. Mashable editors are experiencing service disruptions to Google Meet in particular.
"We are currently investigating a service disruption to some Google Cloud services. Please view our public status dashboard for the latest updates," a Google Cloud spokesperson told Mashable over email. As of this writing, Google's status dashboard reports that "multiple [Google Cloud Platform] products are experiencing Service issues."
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.And, on Downdetector, users are also reporting outages with Google Cloud, Discord, Spotify, Amazon Web Services, CharacterAI, Snapchat, Cloudfare, Rocket League, Pokemon TCG, Google Nest, FuboTV, Box, HighLevel, Etsy, Vimeo, OpenAI, Google Drive, Mailchimp, Shopify, UPS, Microsoft Azure, Google Maps, Anthropic, cursor, reCAPtcha, Dialpad, Verizon, YouTube, Gmail, NPM, AT&T, T-Mobile, Gemini, Twitch, Pokemon GO, Dragon Ball, Phasmophobia, DoorDash, and more.
So, basically, the entire internet is having issues.
SEE ALSO: Much of the internet is down and social media is not taking it wellThis is a developing story.
I Finally Added USB-C Ports to My PC, and It Was Harder Than I Expected
USB-C is one of the greatest additions to modern computers. We’ve gone for 10 cables that might do 5 jobs to 1 that can do at least 10. However, not every PC comes with a USB-C port, or if it does, it may be a little older. Here’s how I added an extra USB-C port to my PC.
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Someone spent $150,000 on a Labubu. Yes, really.
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That’s not a typo. As reported by CNN, at a recent auction in Beijing, a mint green, first-generation Labubu figure measuring a whopping 131 centimeters tall (that’s over four feet!) sold for 1.08 million yuan, or about $150,325.
Let’s pause for effect: $150K. For a toy figure with a devilish grin and bunny ears. If you weren't convinced by now, Labubu is an icon, a legend — and she is the moment.
SEE ALSO: The cult and community of Labubu What makes this $150K Labubu so special?This wasn’t your everyday Labubu plush keychain from Pop Mart (which typically retails anywhere from $27.99 to $39.99). This Labubu figure was the only one of its kind, auctioned at the prestigious Yongle International Auction House, which normally deals in fine jewelry and modern art. So when the auctioneer banged the gavel and congratulated the anonymous online bidder, it wasn’t just a win; it was a moment in collectible toy history.
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So, why are people paying Range Rover money for a Labubu?Thank the global Labubu craze.
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Amazon Prime Video ads to double, report says
It's not your imagination — you're likely seeing more ads these days.
Prime Video, Amazon's streaming offering, has quietly doubled its ads, according to an exclusive report from Adweek. Citing ad buyers and documents it reviewed, Adweek reported that Amazon has moved to four to six minutes of ads per hour of streaming. That's double the two to three-and-a-half minutes when Prime Video first launched ads in January of last year.
“Prime Video ad load has gradually increased to four to six minutes per hour,” an Amazon representative told an ad buyer, according to Adweek.
It seems like every streaming platform has gradually moved to include more ads. HBO Max — then known as Max, which was previously HBO Max, which was previously HBO Now, which was previously HBO Go — rolled out ads last year and recently cracked down on password sharing. That's a double whammy of ad inconvenience. Netflix? Ads and password sharing crackdown. Hulu or pretty much anywhere else? Ditto.
You can, of course, pay extra to get an ad-free experience. For Amazon, that means an extra $3 per month. Streamers, of course, have rebranded the ad-supported tiers as cheaper options.
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FREE GIFT CARD WITH PURCHASE: When you grab the new Sony WH-1000XM6 noise-cancelling headphones at Amazon for $448, you'll get a free $30 Sony gift card to spend as you please.
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Sony dropped its newest flagship headphones last month, the WH-1000XM6s, and we're loving them. And so are our readers; the noise-cancelling headphones are one of Mashable readers' top purchases in May 2025. They're expensive (shocker), but our reviewer Timothy Beck-Werth says they mostly justify their cost, thanks to phenomenal noise cancellation, a comfortable fit, improved audio quality, and a travel-friendly design.
If you're in the market for a pair of elite headphones and want to be among the first adopters of the newest Sony technology, Amazon will give you a free $30 gift card with your purchase of the Sony WH-1000XM6s. This deal is only available at Amazon, which also has the best price on the headphones. They're $448 at Amazon, while they're listed at $449.99 (full price) at Sony, Best Buy, and Target. Sure, $1.99 isn't much as far as savings go, but paired with a free $30 gift card, it's the best deal you'll find on the headphones right now.
SEE ALSO: The 9 best headphones of 2025 — how do the new Sony XM6 compare?The listing doesn't specify how you'll receive your $30 gift card, but we can assume the information will be emailed to the account you have on file at Amazon after your purchase. The deal is only available until 2:59 a.m. ET on June 23, so if you want to score a free gift card with your purchase, you have about a week and a half to decide.
If you need some influencing, check out our full review of the new flagship headphones.
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All colorways of the 13-inch Macbook Air M4 are on sale for $849 at Amazon
SAVE $150: All colorway options of the M4 Apple MacBook Air (13-inch, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) are on sale at Amazon for $849, down from the normal price of $999. That's a 15% discount.
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The school year might be winding down, but it's already time to consider the next round of classes. If you could use with a shiny, new, and speedy laptop, there's a great Apple deal at Amazon today that's well worth a look.
As of June 12, every colorway option of the M4 Apple MacBook Air (13-inch, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) is on sale for $849 at Amazon, marked down from the normal price of $999. That's a 15% discount that shaves $150 off the list price.
If we're being honest, a lot of us look at our laptop as much (or more) than our phones, the dog, or even a partner. Because of that, you deserve a laptop that comes in a colorway that brings you joy. Apple gifted us with options on the M4 Apple MacBook Air and with today's deal, you can choose what suits you best. Go with the bright Sky Blue, stick with a classic Silver, go all-drama with Midnight, or stick with the cheery Starlight. While we've been in a flurry of discounts on the M4 Air this spring, it's rare to see every color option included in the sale.
SEE ALSO: The Apple Watch SE is still down to $169 at Amazon — act fast to save $80In terms of performance, you're in good hands with the M4 Air. Mashable considers it the best MacBook to buy in 2025, largely thanks to the upgraded M4 chip and better cameras. There's also the near-silent operation which is also welcomed.
Mashable Senior Editor Stan Schroeder also points out the upgrade to internal memory in his review. Last year's model topped out at 8GB but the new M4 Air comes with 16GB of starting memory. Plus, you get the option to use two external displays. Apple mentions this model can get up to 18 hours of battery life, so you're in for all-day use before you'll need to recharge.
If you've been considering a MacBook upgrade, today's deal on every colorway on the M4 Air means this is a great time to snag the 13-inch model for $849. You'll be so thankful of the speedy new chip come next semester.
The best tech deals to shop this week-
Apple AirPods Pro 2nd Gen With MagSafe USB-C Charging Case — $169.00 (List Price $249.00)
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Roku Ultra 4K Ultimate Streaming Player (2024 Release) — $79.99 (List Price $99.99)
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Beats Pill Bluetooth Speaker — $99.00 (List Price $149.95)
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Roborock Qrevo Master Robot Vacuum and Mop — $799.97 (List Price $1599.99)
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Apple AirTag (4-Pack) — $74.99 (List Price $99.00)