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The year of the AI agents? More outages? Here’s what lies ahead for IT teams in 2026

In 2026, AI agents, chaos engineering, and multi-cloud strategies will redefine IT resilience and risk management.

TechRadar · Feb 3

Outages, cable cuts, power failures, and more - 2025 was a rough year for the internet; these were its toughest moments

Internet outages in 2025 were driven by power failures, weather damage, cable cuts, and routine technical faults across diverse regions.

TechRadar · Jan 31

Botnet smashes DDoS traffic record, equivalent to streaming 2.2 million Netflix 4K movies at once — 31.4 Tb/s attack was large enough to take entire countries offline

Aisuru-Kimwolf botnet smashes DDoS traffic record at 31.4 Tb/s

Tom’s Hardware · Jan 31

Getting your work apps up to speed with AI can really pay off

Cloudflare is warning of a "technical glass ceiling" where artificial intelligence is being held back by legacy tools and infrastructure.

TechRadar · Jan 26

How CIOs can shift from patch and pray to risk-based software change

Forced updates and “patch and pray” thinking are creating avoidable risk in life-critical systems. Vendor business models, built on upgrade pressure and baked-in greed, are driving that risk.

TechRadar · Jan 22

Why Cloudflare (NET) Stock Options Could Be Due for a Comeback Trade

Although Cloudflare has struggled amid broader questions impacting the tech ecosystem, NET stock may surprisingly benefit from a reflexive swing higher.

Barchart · Jan 20

Pinterest CEO: the Napster phase of AI needs to end

I believe AI can benefit our 600 million users for years to come and at a fraction the cost that many associate with the technology.

Fortune · Jan 19

X down – latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage

Technical issues come amid widespread criticism of Elon Musk’s platform

The Independent UK · Jan 16

The 10 most impactful outages of 2025

Tom’s Guide tracked multiple outages in 2025 and these are the ones that had the biggest impact as services suffered interruptions this year.

Tom’s Guide · Dec 31, 2025

Downtime caused historic issues in 2025 - but who lost out most?

For many, 2025 will be remembered by outages and lost revenue opportunities.

TechRadar · Dec 29, 2025