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Google suffered a second outage today. The online search engine's email service Gmail went down on Tuesday. Google confirmed the outage on its status page around 4.30 p.m. ET. According to Google, affected users were able to access Gmail, but saw error messages, "or other unexpected behavior". The issues were finally resolved shortly before 7 p.m. ET. On Monday, several of Google's features suffered an outage including Gmail, YouTube and Google Classroom.
Big blackout at Google. Its ad server crashed, disabling publishers around the world from loading ads on their websites . Fred Katayama reports.
The EU hits Apple, Google parent firm Alphabet and Meta with the first ever probes under a mammoth digital law, which could lead to big fines against the US tech giants. Announcing the move, EU Commission executive vice-president Margrethe Vestager says that "DMA (Digital Markets Act) compliance is something that we take really seriously". Since March 7, the world's biggest tech firms have had to comply with the DMA, which aims to curb their behaviour and ensure that they give users more choice. SOUNDBITE
A Chinese software engineer was arrested Wednesday for stealing artificial intelligence technology from Google while secretly working for two Chinese companies, US Attorney General Merrick Garland says, while speaking at an event for white collar crimes, in San Francisco. SOUNDBITE