Very nice write-up about the importance of high-quality randomness (and the history of Random.org!) by Chris Baraniuk for BBC Future 🙌🎲

Today, we're launching a new randomizer that lets you place points randomly on a 2D canvas and draw lines between them. We made it on request for artist David Row (davidrow.com), but we’re sharing it with everyone. Enjoy! random.org/points/2d

We really enjoyed Heather McCalden's beautiful article about true randomness in the Financial Times today. And thanks for mentioning us! ft.com/content/a660ae… via @ft

We are back. Our cloud company is still resolving their issue, but the workaround we put in place is keeping us running. Thank you for your patience.

The issue has now been resolved. We are working on brining back a small number of results from the Third-Party Draw Service, but all functionality should be back to normal. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Multi-Round Giveaways are affected by an ongoing outage at our cloud company. We are putting a workaround in place.

The issue at our cloud company has been resolved and we are now back online. Note that some historical results from Multi-Round Giveaways are still coming back.

We are experiencing an outage at our cloud company. All services are affected.

Our cloud company are working on a solution. We're doing everything we can. Thank you for your patience.

We are back. Our apologies for the convenience and thank you for your patience.