In Brief Zoom says its platform is back online after suffering an outage for much of Wednesday afternoon. “Service has now been restored after the earlier outage, and we sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding,” Zoom said in a post on X at around 2 p.m. Pacific. The trouble began around 11:40 a.m., according to The Verge, citing data from Cisco’s ThousandEyes platform. Users on social media reported having trouble logging in, and getting an “Unable to Connect” error message when entering meeti ...