Competition has been steep for Jumia, Africa’s largest e-commerce platform, especially from major Chinese companies like Temu and Shein.  Jumia is now using the same playbook its Chinese rivals have...

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Silicon Valley firms are rushing to train artificial intelligence models with tens of thousands of graphics processing units, and offering multimillion-dollar salaries to star researchers. Meanwhile, in Mongolia, Badral Sanlig...

Aug 22, 04:54 UTC
Completed - Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue caused by the unexpected power event has been fully resolved. Droplet connectivity in SFO2 should now be completely restored, and events like powering on/off should work as expected.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.

Aug 22, 01:25 UTC
Update - Our Engineering team has mitigated the issue with the unexpected power event and will continue to monitor this closely. Droplet connectivity in SFO2 should be restored, and events, such as powering on/off, should complete successfully now.

We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. We will post updates if any further unexpected issues arise, and once this maintenance is fully completed. Thank you for your patience.

Aug 22, 00:35 UTC
Update - Our Engineering team is still working on the issue with some nodes in SFO2 going offline. Some users may still experience connectivity and event processing issues in SFO2.

We apologize for the inconvenience. We will post an update once we've confirmed that this issue is resolved.

Aug 21, 23:29 UTC
Update - During this maintenance, an unexpected power issue has occurred, which has caused multiple nodes to go down. Some customers with Droplets in SFO2 may notice that their Droplets are experiencing connectivity and event processing issues.

Our Engineering team is working to resolve this immediately, we will post an update here once we have more information.

Aug 21, 21:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Aug 21, 20:50 UTC
Scheduled - We are initiating an emergency power maintenance in one of our data center cages. This maintenance is critical and must be performed immediately to ensure infrastructure stability.

Expected Impact:

All devices run on redundant power. We do not expect any customer impact during this maintenance. If the redundant power feed experienced an issue during the course of the maintenance (which is unlikely), customers could see impact to existing resources housed in the affected cages, including Droplets, rDNS, and Object Storage. We will post updates if any unexpected outage occurs.

To help ensure a safe operation, we've temporarily reduced Droplet capacity in our SFO2 region. Customers who deploy Droplets in SFO2 may see some sizes unavailable or run into capacity errors for large deployments. This is temporary, so if you do encounter an error, we encourage you to try to deploy once more once the maintenance is complete.

Our engineering and operations teams are onsite and will be monitoring affected systems closely throughout the maintenance. Emergency notifications will be sent promptly if any critical impacts arise.

We appreciate your understanding as we work to resolve this situation as quickly and safely as possible.

If you have any questions related to this maintenance please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket

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Artificial intelligence chatbots are starting to take over from low-wage workers, known as “chatters,” who impersonate OnlyFans stars in direct messaging with fans. The adult website’s creators rely on these...

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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva traveled to China in May, where he signed several deals including a five-year $1 billion commercial agreement with Wang Xing, the co-founder and...

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American tech giants have increased spending on artificial intelligence tools designed to resolve some of the world’s most pressing problems.  Since 2020, Google has spent $200 million on AI-driven social...

Aug 15, 15:42 UTC
Resolved - From 14:40 UTC to 14:52 UTC, users may have experienced errors when trying to use the API or while accessing our Cloud Control Panel at https://cloud.digitalocean.com.

Our Engineering team has implemented a fix and confirmed full resolution of the issue. Users should be able to access the API and Cloud Control Panel without issue now.

If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Singapore is known for channelling its best talent into the public sector and with GovTech it’s no different. The government aims to staff the agency with the same calibre of...

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China’s electric-vehicle revolution just engaged reverse gear. The world’s largest EV producer is flooding international markets with plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that run both on batteries and gasoline. Chinese hybrid...

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Aug 13, 09:30 UTC
Resolved - As of 18:45 UTC, our Engineering team has resolved the issues with OpenAI rate limits that were affecting certain DigitalOcean services. The problem, which began at approximately 09:30 UTC, caused errors (429s) for Agents using OpenAI models for serverless inference.

Systems Affected:

Serverless inference
Evaluations

Technical Details: The issue was caused by exceeding OpenAI rate limits, which resulted in 429 errors for OpenAI models.

Duration: The incident lasted for approximately 9 hours, from 09:30 UTC to 18:45 UTC. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and appreciate your patience as we worked to resolve the issue. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our Support team.

On the manicured roads of the United Arab Emirates, a driverless future is slowly taking shape. Robotaxis zip past palm tree-lined streets, luxury hotels, and glass towers glinting under the...

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At the glitzy Auto Shanghai show in April this year, the message was clear: China is making the cars of the future, and that future will be increasingly electrified, connected,...

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In February, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum unveiled Kutsari Center, a national chip design hub — the first step in an ambitious plan to develop a homegrown semiconductor industry. Dozens of scientists...

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Abu Dhabi is giving away what Silicon Valley sells. The United Arab Emirates is offering its advanced Falcon artificial intelligence programs completely free at a time when OpenAI, Google, and...

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Aug 7, 23:45 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team identified and resolved an issue with the doctl v1.136.0 that was affecting automations and integrations, including App Platform and GitHub Action.

Users with the affected version of doctl may see 404 errors blocking their pipeline. The issue was caused by missing binaries in the release. The broken release has been deleted. Automations depending on doctl should now function as expected.

We apologize for the inconvenience. The new release shall be published soon.

The push notification arrived quietly one morning in July on Airtel’s bright-red mobile app. The Indian telecom company had a tantalizing offer for its 360 million subscribers: Perplexity Pro, the...

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Western pharmaceutical giants are striking multibillion-dollar deals with Chinese biotech firms that use artificial intelligence, signaling growing confidence in China’s ability to deliver faster and cheaper innovative drugs.  In June,...

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Over 2.6 million Syrians live in Turkey as refugees, but for tech workers, it’s still a small world. In 2019, a group of refugees formed a nonprofit, Digital Istanbul, to...

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The Gulf’s trillion-dollar race to become an artificial-intelligence superpower faces the region’s biggest challenge: water. Data centers powering AI across the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are consuming water...

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