Power outages have brought some OVH data servers to their knees, and unspecified issues have broken optical cable routing in Europe for POP.

CEO Octave Klaba tweeted that "2 separated 20kV lines are down" and said the team was trying to restart generators for its Central Europe SBG1 and SG4 data centres.

The numbers illustrate the fact that Snapchat still faces stiff competition from Facebook and Instagram.

More bad news: Snap also took a $40 million charge to write down unsold Spectacles. Spiegel said the company made the "wrong decision" based on the early sales traction.

Meanwhile, Snap's stock remains well below its post-initial public offering peak price of $29.44 as shares have declined nearly 40 percent since going public.

This process involves the victim sending a copy of the nude photo to his own account, via Facebook Messenger. This implies uploading a copy of the nude photo on Facebook Messenger, the very same act the victim is trying to prevent.

Facebook says it's not storing a copy of the photo, but only computing the file's hash and adding it to its database of revenge porn imagery.

Many people worried that Google was scanning users’ documents in real time to determine if they’re being mean or somehow bad. You actually agree to such oversight in Google G Suite’s terms of service.

Even though this is spelled out in the terms of service, it’s uncomfortably Big Brother-ish, and raises anew questions about how confidential and secure corporate information really is in the cloud.

Users in countries ranging from Brazil and Russia to Vietnam and Myanmar reported on social media that WhatsApp was down in their countries. The extent of the outage and the reasons for it were not immediately known.

WhatsApp has faced similar widespread outages this year, including for several hours in May.

Numerous Google Docs users have reported that they are being mysteriously locked out of certain files in their accounts.

Users have taken to Twitter to complain about the issue, saying that while they were working on documents the screen suddenly froze, and then a message came up telling them they could no longer access a file.

The update comes after YouTube made changes to the way videos were monetised, to stop ads appearing alongside extremist content.

In April and May this year, YouTube acted after investigations revealed that ads for big brands were being regularly shown on racist videos or those that encouraged violence against particular groups.

Software developers and testers must be sick of hearing security nuts rant, "Beware SQL injection! Monitor for cross-site scripting! Watch for hijacked session credentials!" I suspect the developers tune us out. Why? Because we've been raving about the same defects for most of their careers. Truth is, though, the same set of major security vulnerabilities persists year after year, decade after decade.

It's sad that eight out of 10 of the issues from 2013 are still top security issues in 2017. In fact, if you consider that the draft 2017 list combined two of the 2013 items, it's actually nine out of 10. Ouch.

GDPR will kick in next May, and, critically, it impacts not just European business but any business that holds data on European citizens. Put most simply, GDPR requires businesses to get the explicit consent of users to gather, store and, particularly, publish their information.

Intellectual property lawyers prefer a system that provides them with details on who owns a particular domain name (especially given widespread copyright infringement online) to one that excludes them from such information altogether.

Kids will -- if the company has its way -- grow up to utter a company name, as if they have some sort of personal relationship with one of the biggest corporations in the world.

The idea, as Jonathan Jarvis, a former creative director on Google's Labs team, told Business Insider last year was that Google's assistant should make you feel like Wonder Person.