A Google Cloud outage breaks Snapchat, YouTube, Gmail

Don't panic, but two of The Youths™ biggest sources of entertainment are down.

Snapchat and YouTube, as well as Gmail, G Suite, Discord, and other services, are down in some eastern regions of the U.S. and Europe. A Google Cloud outage, which powers logins for many non-Google properties, is responsible. That report comes from The Verge, as well as matching comparisons of outages on DownDetector.com.

(Editor's note: All Google services, plus Discord, are working as of 5:22 p.m. ET and never stopped working for Mashable weekend editor Adam Rosenberg, who lives near New York City. So it's not a universal issue for everyone, even on the east coast.) Read more...