Global RSS outage disrupts major news aggregators
Here are the facts: major news aggregator platforms and hundreds of publishers experienced a widespread RSS outage in the early hours of today, local time, affecting services across North America, Europe and parts of Asia, according to preliminary diagnostics that point to a corrupted feed parsing rollout from a central provider, multiple sources say.
The facts
The news broke at first light, when editorial dashboards stopped receiving new articles. Incoming items failed to appear in newsroom systems. External feed endpoints returned errors or stale content. Users saw repeated refresh attempts and error messages on aggregator interfaces. Some mobile apps served cached headlines only. Engineers recorded elevated latency and a sharp rise in failed HTTP requests to common RSS endpoints.
The consequences
Platform operators initiated rollbacks and throttled feed fetches while the central syndication provider issued emergency patches. Engineers advised publishers to repoint critical feeds temporarily and to increase monitoring. Several major outlets switched to direct API pushes to deliver key bulletins. Backups are being validated and logs are under analysis. According to official sources, a full incident update is scheduled within hours, and partial restoration is expected by the end of the day.
