Fastly: Tech firm behind internet outage explains what took down major websites worldwide | Science & Tech News

US tech company Fastly has revealed that a software bug triggered a global internet outage which took several major websites offline on Tuesday.

For around an hour, sites such as The New York Times, Evening Standard, Bloomberg and Le Monde, as well as self-proclaimed front page of the internet Reddit, shopping site eBay, and streaming platform Twitch, were all down.

Amazon and PayPal were also reported to have been taken offline during the outage.