Tag: Service outages

Brief, widespread outage for numerous websites

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NEW YORK — Major websites went down Thursday in what appeared to be a brief but widespread outage. ...

Cuba’s internet cutoff: The go-to tactic for global despots

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Cubans facing the country’s worst economic crisis in decades took to the streets over the weekend. In turn, authorities blocked social media sites in...

California tests off-the-grid solutions to power outages

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SAN FRANCISCO — When a wildfire tore through Briceburg nearly two years ago, the tiny community on the edge of Yosemite National Park lost...

Rolling blackouts for parts of US Northwest amid heat wave

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SPOKANE, Wash. — The unprecedented Northwest U.S. heat wave that slammed Seattle and Portland, Oregon, moved inland Tuesday — prompting a electrical utility in...

Tens of thousands in dark after blackout hits USVI

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. Virgin Islands' power company on Friday reported a complete blackout in St. John and St. Thomas, which...

Power outage hits 190K in Puerto Rico amid growing outrage

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A sudden power failure left some 190,000 clients in the dark across Puerto Rico late Wednesday, enraging many who...

Hong Kong’s stock exchange hit in latest wave of web outages

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The Hong Kong Stock Exchange said it was hit by technical problems Thursday as a wave of brief internet outages appeared to hit dozens...

In Lebanon, a search for medicine and a stranger’s help

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To all the struggles of life in Lebanon — the pandemic, the power outages, the inflation, the punishing financial and political crises — add...

Fastly blames global internet outage on software bug

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LONDON — Fastly, the company hit by a major outage that caused many of the world's top websites to go offline briefly this week,...

Texas governor says power grid fixed; experts cite problems

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AUSTIN, Texas — Despite experts who say Texas' power grid remains vulnerable, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott declared Tuesday that new reforms “fix all of...