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Service provider Cloudflare experienced an outage on June 12

Internet outages show signs of recovery as Spotify, Google and other popular online services are down for thousands of users

By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN (CNN) — Multiple popular online services were hit by outages on Thursday afternoon, including Spotify, Discord and Google, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service disruptions across the web. Downdetector also reported issues at Amazon Web Services, but the company says it was operating normally on Thursday. The disruptions came

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US inflation has been fairly tame to start the year; however

US wholesale inflation heated up in May

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — US wholesale inflation rose slightly in May, driven in part by costlier goods; however, tariff-related effects were largely muted. The latest Producer Price Index, a closely watched measurement of wholesale inflation, showed that prices paid to producers rose 0.1% in May, lifting the annual rate to 2.6%, according to

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An image of Disney's Mickey Mouse displayed outside the Disney Store in Times Square in December 2017 in New York City. Disney and Universal are suing AI photo generator Midjourney for alleged copyright infringement.

Disney and Universal team up to sue AI photo generator Midjourney, claiming copyright infringement

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Disney and Universal are suing AI photo generation company Midjourney, marking the first major legal showdown between Hollywood studios and an artificial intelligence company. Midjourney, which enables users to create realistic-looking images from a text prompt in just seconds, is one of the most popular AI image

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CFPB enforcement lead resigns, slams ‘attack’ on core mission in departure email

By Samantha Delouya and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Cara Petersen, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s acting enforcement director, resigned from the agency on Tuesday. In an email to colleagues announcing her decision, Petersen slammed the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency, which was established as a banking watchdog following the 2008 global financial

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