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Fastly blames global outage of websites on software bug
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The Fastly home page is seen on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
By: The Associated Press & Scripps National
Posted at 7:39 AM, Jun 09, 2021
and last updated 2021-06-09 10:42:01-04
LONDON (AP) â Fastly, the company that was hit by a major outage that caused many of the worldâs top websites to go offline briefly, blamed the problem on a software bug that was triggered when a customer changed a setting.
The problem at Fastly meant internet users couldnât connect to a host of popular websites including The New York Times, the Guardian, Twitch, Reddit, and the British governmentâs homepage.
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