Newark Liberty International Airport has faced many disruptions in recent weeks. Technology outages, air traffic controller shortages and runway construction at the busy hub have led to scores of canceled and delayed flights. The Federal Aviation Administration says it’s trying to improve the situation, including with software and hardware upgrades. On Wednesday, it met with…
An air traffic control facility that guides planes at Newark Liberty International Airport suffered a brief radar outage on Friday morning, the latest technological disruption at one of the nation’s busiest airports. The Federal Aviation Administration said that the outage, which affected communications and radar displays at the facility in Philadelphia, occurred just before 4…
On a recent afternoon in Philadelphia, an air traffic controller began shouting that he had lost his radar feed for planes flying in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport. Some of his colleagues still had radar but their radios went dead, prompting frantic calls to their counterparts in New York urging them to keep…
A major power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, shutting down trains, airports and other critical infrastructure and causing disruptions across the two countries. Energy authorities said the outage occurred following a disruption in the European grid. It was not immediately clear what caused the outage. António Leitão Amaro, the minister of state for…
The social media platform X, formerly Twitter, was experiencing intermittent outages on Monday, mostly on its app, according to Downdetector, which tracks reports of problems from users on websites. The first outages on X, which Elon Musk bought for $44 billion in 2022, were reported before 6 a.m. Eastern time, after which the site and…
The PlayStation Network, which users of the Sony PlayStation platform rely on to play games, download content and access apps, fluttered in and out of service on Saturday but remained down for at least some users more than 20 hours after widespread problems with the network were first reported. “You might have difficulty launching games,…
The Federal Aviation Administration was using a backup system to send real-time safety alerts to pilots late Saturday because its primary one was “experiencing a temporary outage,” the Transportation Department said. “The primary NOTAM system is experiencing a temporary outage, but there is currently no impact to the National Airspace System because a backup system…
Thousands of customers have reported problems getting their banking done with Capital One because of a disruption accessing online services that began on Wednesday and persisted into the weekend. On at least two different occasions on Friday afternoon, nearly 4,000 customers each time reported issues completing transactions with Capital One, a credit card and banking…
AT&T announced on Wednesday that it would start crediting customers for internet outages and long wait times, the latest initiative in a yearslong effort to revamp the company’s customer service. Starting Thursday, individual AT&T customers and small businesses that experience a fiber outage of more than 20 minutes or a wireless outage of more than…