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Yahoo and AOL were down — live updates on massive outage that impacted Yahoo Mail and more

Tons of Yahoo and AOL users had a rough start to their day, as an outage appears to be underway.

Tom’s Guide

Yahoo down: Mail and AOL not working in major outage

Yahoo and AOL have gone down, leaving their email clients and other services not working.

The Independent UK

Is Yahoo Mail Down? Global Crash Leaves Thousands Facing 'Too Many Requests' Error

Yahoo Mail's worldwide crash sparks outrage as 'Too many requests' blocks thousands – live on the outage hammering email lifelines.

International Business Times UK

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Running Factorio from over 1,000 floppy disks is a masochistically manual process that surely sets a new record for game load times

Put aside a week to get the game loaded.

PC Gamer

68 People Confess The One Petty Moment They Wish They Could Erase From Their Past

No one is perfect, and mistakes are often how we learn, grow, and understand both ourselves and others. But not all mistakes are the same. Some cut far deeper than we expect and stay with us for years. On Reddit, people opened up about the dirtiest, slimiest, most backstabbing things…

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Yahoo and AOL mail were down for many –here's how the latest outage played out

Struggled with your Yahoo or AOL email today? You're weren't alone –here's what happened in the latest outage.

TechRadar

Why 12-Year-Old Mark Zuckerberg Built A Little Messaging Network For The Family Member Who Reportedly Wrote Him $100,000 Check To Start Facebook

Long before Facebook became a global social media giant, Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg was already coding innovative tech as a preteen.

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This pioneering instant messaging platform tried to keep up with the times - we take a closer look at why ICQ failed

ICQ was a real trailblazer when it came to instant messaging - so what went wrong?

TechRadar

‘A sweet place to live’: This teen lived in AOL’s headquarters for months before anybody noticed

Free food, free gym, free laundry, comfy couches? Why would you ever leave?

We Got This Covered

I added this $29 smart sensor to my mailbox and it's one of my favorite home upgrades ever

This $29 smart mailbox sensor saves you the dread and hassle of pointless trips to your mailbox by letting you know the moment your mail is actually delivered.

Tom’s Guide

Deal Dispatch: Big Retailers Wreak Halloween Havoc On Sugar Land Candy Company

This year’s Halloween isn’t so sweet for CandyWarehouse.com. The Sugar Land, Texas-based company went bankrupt, listing up to $500,000 in assets.

Benzinga

Turns out AOL is still a thing - and it's just been bought for $1.5bn

The next big Bending Spoons acquisition is AOL, for $1.5bn.

TechRadar

You’ve got a new owner: AOL is sold in reputed $1.5B deal to tech conglomerate

AOL, which became symbolic of the early internet age, is being bought by Italian tech company Bending Spoon

The Independent UK

Ex-Trump adviser John Bolton indicted on charges of mishandling classified information

Eighteen-count indictment handed down by federal grand jury in Maryland as US president calls former ally a ‘bad guy’

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Tom’s Hardware

AOL's dial-up internet service killed with a final modem screech after 34 years — America Online goes offline this week, but other dial-up services still exist

AOL's 34-year established dial-up service was finally shuttered this week.

PC Gamer

Dial up is dead—at least as far as AOL is concerned, as the company is pulling the plug after 34 years

But that doesn't mean US broadband infrastructure is necessarily picking up the slack.

Benzinga

Yahoo Reportedly Nears $1.4 Billion Sale Of AOL After Internet Pioneer Ends Dial-Up Era And Closes Another Chapter

Yahoo is reportedly close to selling AOL to Italian technology firm Bending Spoons for about $1.4 billion, a move that would hand off one of the most iconic names of the early internet just weeks after AOL retired its dial-up service.

The Independent UK

AOL's dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era

It’s official: AOL’s dial-up internet has taken its last bow

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Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Obscenity Blocks, Cooking Oil, and D.C.'s Tipped Minimum Wage (Vol. 19)

Good intentions, bad results.

Creative Bloq

30 years since the launch of Windows 95, the 90s still has some of the best sonic branding

Here's how you can recreate it.

Benzinga

The End Of An Era: AOL Discontinues Dial-Up Internet After 30 Years

AOL said last week stating that it would be discontinuing dial-up internet as of Sept. 30. The move marks the end of an era when it comes to the internet, as AOL is one of the last major companies to offer the service.

TechRadar

ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories from the demise of dial-up to the return of a missing Apple Watch feature

Catch up on tech news from Apple, Vive, Insta 360, and more from the past seven days.

AOL's dial-up internet hangs up the phone

What was once the way that most home users accessed the internet is soon to be no more – thanks for all the chirps and pings, AOL

The Guardian - US

In the time of tariffs, Nvidia and AMD cut unusual deals with Trump

Two chipmakers make revenue-sharing pledges, OpenAI reveals GPT-5 and AOL bids dial-up adieu

The Independent UK

A classic internet feature is coming to an end

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