Some of you must be dizzy from all the spinning in this thread today.
But I'm happy for you that Kotaku had a "breaking news" story to report today.
It seems quite obvious Sony took down this update just to be ultra careful not to brick thousands of machines like some of Microsoft's previous updates have done. Instead there seems to be a very small number of people affected by 2.4, and Sony got scared when places like Kotaku started banging down their door immediately.
I bet we'll see 2.4 back up tomorrow. Check out the GAF thread dedicated to this topic. Last I checked there wasn't a single post about someone having a bricked PS3 from this update. Yet we still see articles from 1up reporting "major problems".
Could they be any more obvious with their manufactured drama?