It's apparently due to Fastly
>https://status.fastly.com
>https://twitter.com/MacRumors/status/1402212495444496399
A massive outage just took large sections of the internet offline
Amazon, PayPal, UK government and media websites - including ZDNet - all taken offline after infrastructure provider Fastly suffered "an issue"
Large sections of the internet went down on Tuesday morning.
Media publications including The Guardian, the Financial Times, The New York Times and ZDNet, as well as websites including Reddit, Twitch, Amazon, PayPal, and the UK government website gov.uk went down due to an outage.
Visitors to the sites were met with an error message: "Error 503 Service Unavailable". The problem appears to be widespread and could be linked to an outage at cloud platform and content delivery network (CDN) Fastly.
Fastly's service status indicates that it was experiencing global CDN disruption which is causing the global issue, with services across North America, South America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, South Africa and India all suffering from a "degraded performance"
"We're currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services," Fastly said in a service update posted at 09:58 UTC.
Services began returned about 45 minutes later when Fastly said "The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented" - at the time of publication, it isn't certain what the exact issue was, although the company has been contacted for comment.
>https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-massive-outage-just-took-large-sections-of-the-internet-offline/
>if the FBI is able to recover a bit coin transaction then intelligent people know what that means: there is no privacy in that realm as imagined and as discussed in their advertisement and marketting copy.