Typhoon Peipah made landfall in Japan on Friday, bringing heavy rainfall, strong winds and widespread disruption to transport and power infrastructure as it moved eastward along the Pacific coast before weakening into an extratropical depression. The year’s 15th typhoon made landfall twice in western Japan, near Sukumo and then again in northern Wakayama. In Shizuoka…
Social media platform X began to recover on Saturday evening following a major outage that disrupted access for thousands of users across the United States, according to outage tracking site Downdetector.com. Reports of service disruptions peaked at over 10,000 but had dropped to around 1,041 by 7:42 p.m. ET, the site said. Downdetector compiles outage…
North Korea’s internet was hit by a major outage that lasted several hours on Saturday, knocking off connections to government websites and official news services online and severing the reclusive country from cyberspace. It was not clear what caused the outage but it may have been internal rather than a cyberattack, as connections via China…
Following consecutive global outages on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk has announced a return to his intensive work schedule, committing to spending nearly all his time across his companies. The tech billionaire announced that he would be sleeping in conference rooms, server rooms, and factory floors to personally oversee critical developments…
French police were investigating a possible arson attack as being the main cause for a power outage which hit the Alpes-Maritimes region in southern France on Saturday, including Cannes, which is hosting its world-famous annual film festival. “We are looking into the likelihood of a fire being started deliberately,” said a spokesperson for the French…
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…
Spain’s national power company said early Tuesday that nearly all power had been restored in the country, mostly ending a major outage that affected airports, trains, traffic lights and other critical infrastructure. The company, Red Eléctrica, said that 99 percent of power demand in Peninsular Spain was being met, and that all substations on the…
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…
Zoom, the popular cloud-based video conferencing platform, is currently experiencing widespread outage, disrupting meetings and communication for thousands of users across the US and other countries. Users trying to access Zoom’s website and mobile app were met with an “Error 50003” message, signaling a connection issue. As of 3:30 pm ET on Wednesday, more than…
MUMBAI: India experienced the flip side of going cashless when Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the platform that accounts for more than four-fifths of all digital transactions in the country, suffered a major outage Saturday, leaving users struggling to make payments across malls, parking lots and shops.Users across India reported failed payments. Some got debit alerts…