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Y Combinator-backed Impact Drones to offer missile-intercepting drone service for data centers and grid operators
Following several strikes on data centers in US-Israel and Iran conflict
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Internet outages spike in Q1 2026, says Cloudflare
Iran War largely to blame
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Iran threatens to attack OpenAI's Stargate data center in UAE
After hitting Amazon and Oracle data centers
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Iran attack hits an Oracle data center in Dubai, causes limited damage
Dubai Media Office initially calls claims "fake news," later confirms shrapnel impact
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Iran makes further threats against Big Tech in the Middle East
Says it is in response to US attempts to kill Iranian leadership
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TikTok experiences issues at US data center, but avoids full outage
After major power outage earlier this year
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TikTok says outage is resolved, confirms it was an Oracle data center
Issues were caused by the harsh winter storm
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TikTok suffers data center outage in US
First weekend after official launch of new owner
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Oracle Cloud experiences outage in Europe, users say
DownDetector suggests cloud issues lasted six hours
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Oracle hiring for Abilene, Texas, Stargate data center roles
Join the first Oracle-OpenAI mega data center
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Oracle develops its own machine learning system to pinpoint data center outages
Hopes the solution will help cut server downtime
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Chinese companies exploiting sanctions loophole by accessing GPUs in the US - report
Chinese cloud providers have also attempted to establish data centers in the US to avoid sanctions
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Oracle Cloud, NetSuite, and Azure face outages in Sydney, Australia
Likely caused by an issue at a shared data center
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US gov't considering restrictions on China's access to American cloud providers
New regulation being mulled to close embargo loopholes
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Twitter fails to pay bills due to Oracle for months – report
Musk takes on his friend Larry Ellison, who owns a stake in the social media firm
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Cyxtera fire in Boston was caused by electrical fault which blew the doors off a battery cabinet
Oracle outage caused by serious arc flash incident
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Fire at Cyxtera data center causes Oracle NetSuite outage
Firefighters switched off power after seeing smoke
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Ongoing DNS failures at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Problems enter third day
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Twitter tries to renegotiate deals with Amazon and Oracle
And stops paying other bills
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Cooling failure brings down Google Cloud data center in London on UK's hottest day
Services are up again now, Oracle also affected
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TikTok’s chief security officer steps down, as US data is moved to Oracle
Amid claims the company sent user data to China
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Supreme Court tells Oracle to pay HPE $3bn for failing to support Itanium
Never mind if the Itanium chip failed, Oracle promised HP it would support it
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Veterans Affairs and Cerner to analyze Spokane outage
"Full root cause analysis" of major March outage
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Microsoft suspends new sales in Russia, following similar moves by Oracle and SAP
Potentially cutting the company off from both Azure and Xbox
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US Commerce Department decides not to enforce TikTok ban
Putting the forced sale of Tiktok's US arm in doubt
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Oracle rolls out two Government Cloud Regions in the UK
The two Clouds will be linked via Oracle's private network
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Oracle Cloud adds national security regions for Intelligence Community and DoD
Probably not for storing TikTok videos
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TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer steps down amid political battle with US government
Authorities are forcing TikTok to sell up its US division or be blocked out of the US markets entirely