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…
A US Federal Aviation Administration system that provides safety messages to pilots experienced an outage for several hours on Saturday before resuming operations, the agency and airlines said. The outage of the “Notice to Airmen” system for more than three hours on Saturday was due to a hardware issue. In early February, the system known…
Warren Hu had just settled into his flight from New York to London, where he planned to visit his girlfriend, when he became one of the thousands of passengers whose travel was thrown into disarray early Friday because of a fire near Heathrow Airport. The plane carrying Mr. Hu, a college student in New York,…
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a close confidante of US President Donald Trump, has been challenged. Someone or some people have mounted a massive cyberattack on his X (formerly Twitter). The billionaire is furious and suspects the perpetrators could be based in Ukraine, whose president has been at the US’s receiving end over…