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An apparent internet service outage has disrupted operations on countless major websites including Google, Spotify, and Amazon Web Services.Around midday Thursday, outage monitoring service DownDetector.com reported widespread service disruptions across commonly used platforms like SnapChat and YouTube, with many social media users reporting difficulty accessing several sites.Some notable web services experiencing disruptions include: Spotify, Discord, Google and related services like Google Maps, Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, SnapChat, YouTube, OpenAI, CharacterAI, FuboTV, Etsy, Vimeo, UPS, Shopify, Microsoft Azure, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Google Gemini, DoorDash, Calendly, Paramount+, IKEA, Twitch andMicrosoft 365.A full list of shuttered services can be found on DownDetector.com.Cloudflare, an...

A battery fire broke out in a Hillsboro data center Thursday morning, prompting evacuation of the site but causing no injuries.“Right about 10:20 this morning our crews got called to a fire involving a battery or batteries,” said Piseth Pich, a Hillsboro Fire & Rescue spokesperson. “When they arrived they found batteries inside a room inside what we understood to be a data center. The fire itself was contained to the battery set there and hadn’t spread anywhere else in that room.”

Denver airport’s air traffic control was reportedly struck by a staggering six-minute outage earlier this week after several radio transmitters suddenly went dark. The frequency outage meant that as many as 20 pilots were unable to reach air traffic controllers as they descended into Denver International Airport on Monday afternoon, ABC7 reported, citing sources. A controller eventually made contact with one aircraft on a “guard line,” which is typically only used when a pilot is in distress. That pilot was then able to contact other nearby planes and tell them to switch radio frequencies, the sources said. At the time...

Delta Air Lines on Friday filed a lawsuit against CrowdStrike in Georgia, accusing the security software vendor of breach of contract and negligence after an outage in July that brought down millions of computers and prompted 7,000 flight cancelations. Other airlines recovered more quickly than Atlanta-based Delta, which said the incident reduced revenue by $380 million and brought $170 million in costs. The flawed software update affected computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Days after the outage, Delta hired David Boies of law firm Boies Schiller Flexner to seek damages from CrowdStrike and Microsoft. Delta asked for damages to cover...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Communications Commission said on Monday that it was investigating a Verizon network outage across the United States after thousands of users reported outages. Chicago and Indianapolis were among the hardest-hit cities and some iPhone users were stuck in "SOS" mode. According to tracking website Downdetector.com, the outage began at around 9:30 a.m. ET and there were 66,761 reports as of 12:28 p.m. ET, with regions including Minneapolis, Phoenix, Omaha and Denver among the most reported areas being affected.

(WRIC) — AT&T customers in parts of the country are reporting an outage that’s left them without service or their iPhone devices stuck in SOS mode. Reports of an outage peaked just before 6 p.m. CST on Downdetector, with more than 5,700 users complaining of a service disruption. By 8:35 p.m., the reports fell to just over 3,400. According to USA Today, a company spokesperson said AT&T is working to fix a “software issue that may be disrupting the ability of some of our customers to connect to our wireless network.” The spokesperson told the outlet that the outage seems...

South Lebanon Water Establishment said that shutting down power plants will negatively affect their ability to pump sufficient quantities of water into the area. The Zahrani power plant, the last and only plant still providing electricity in Lebanon, reportedly shut down on Saturday, Sawt Beirut International reported on X, citing Lebanon's electric corporation, Électricité du Liban. The Jerusalem Post could not access Lebanon's Electric Corporation's website.

A Microsoft global outage has wreaked havoc across America, locking countless individuals out of their bank accounts, causing hospital cancelations and even grounding flights. The notorious Blue Screen of Death is popping up everywhere, from banks to supermarkets and media outlets, causing widespread panic and confusion. All United, Delta and American Airlines flights were grounded amid the chaos. Microsoft has issued a statement on the issue. “Our services are still seeing continuous improvements while we continue to take mitigation actions,” Microsoft said on X this morning. “We still expect that users will continue to see gradual relief as we continue...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A global internet outage early Friday morning is impacting major industries around the world, including banks, airlines, and TV stations. Our computers at the TV9 studio in Cedar Rapids were down for a period of time. The Cedar Rapids Police Department tells TV9 it was also affected. The FAA is issuing ground-stops for major airlines. The Eastern Iowa Airport said the outages happened at a time there were no flights, and so far there has been no impact.

July 19 (Reuters) - A global tech outage was disrupting operations across multiple industries on Friday, with airlines halting flights, some broadcasters off air and services from banking to healthcare hit by system problems. While major U.S. airlines - American Airlines (AAL.O), opens new tab, Delta Airlines (DAL.N), opens new tab and United Airlines (UAL.O), opens new tab - grounded flights, other carriers and airports around the world reported delays and disruptions early on Friday. Banks and financial services firms from Australia to India and Germany warned customers of disruptions. In Britain, booking systems used by doctors were offline, multiple...

On Tuesday afternoon, Massachusetts experienced a statewide disruption in its emergency calling system, caused by a malfunctioning firewall from the state’s 911 vendor, Comtech. Ars Technica reports that the Massachusetts government issued a press release this week detailing the cause of the two-hour 911 outage that affected the entire state. According to the statement, a preliminary investigation conducted by the State 911 Department and Comtech revealed that the interruption was the result of a firewall malfunction. This security feature, designed to protect against cyberattacks and hacking, inadvertently prevented emergency calls from reaching dispatch centers, also known as Public Safety Answer...

Department of Motor Vehicles facilities across the country reported outages on Thursday, impacting appointments and services in multiple states, officials said. Illinois secretary of state Alexander Giannoulias wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that they are "currently experiencing a nationwide network outage at our DMV facilities," adding: "All DMVs across the country are currently down." In a press release, Colorado's DMV said it was reaching out to impacted state residents who have appointments at a State Driver License Office to reschedule "due to a national outage with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators." "Most driver license services,...

A major cellphone outage affected users across the US early Thursday — even stopping some police departments from being able to receive 911 calls.AT&T seemed to have experienced the largest number of issues, with nearly 32,000 reports at around 4:30 a.m., according to data from DownDetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.More than 800 service outages were also reported on T-Mobile and Verizon, although a spokesperson for the latter put it down to users reporting problems trying to call people with other services.Others reported issues on smaller carriers including Boost Mobile,...

Update - 10 p.m. As of late Monday, a representative of the FBI's field office in Las Vegas told Channel 13 that the agency had started to look into the situation. As for visitors, in town for the Lady Gaga show on Sunday, Ed and Stephanie Congdon stayed at MGM's New York-New York resort on the Strip. "We became aware of some electronic issues that had (Monday) morning," Ed Congdon says. "It was particularly when we went to breakfast — they weren't doing any room charges, you had to either use your credit card or use cash." Sources have told...

Hi everyone. My home internet went down a week ago Friday (the 1st) late at night. My ISP promised ("committed") to having it up by 6:30 the next morning. It finally came on this past Thursday around midday, only to go off again around 10:15 AM yesterday (Saturday) when I tried to log into a Zoom meeting. They're claiming there's an "outage" and they keep sending me updated times when it will be fixed. In the meantime, I have to use the library's internet. Who's your ISP? Are they reliable? Inexpensive? Can you get a bundle?

witter's website was inaccessible for many users on Monday while others reported issues seeing photos and clicking through links in the app, marking one of the most wide-ranging service disruptions to date under new owner Elon Musk. Some users who attempted to load Twitter.com or TweetDeck, a service that allows users to organize their Twitter feed into lists, were met with an error message: "your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint." Other users were able to access the site (although it appeared to load slowly), but they were met with the same error message when clicking...

A major power outage caused by a fire at an electrical substation shut down the Oakland Airport in Northern California Sunday evening. More than 50,000 customers in the Bay Area were impacted and flights out of the area were halted after a fire broke out at a Pacific Gas and Electric substation around 1pm. Photos and videos posted on social media show stranded passengers at the airport waiting at their gates and to get through security which was shut down for hours.

After all flights in the U.S. were grounded early Wednesday morning over a system failure, the Federal Aviation Administration said it traced the issue back to a “damaged database file.” “The FAA is continuing a thorough review to determine the root cause of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system outage,” the FAA said in a statement Wednesday night. “Our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file.”The Notice to Air Missions system provides safety information to flight crews. “At this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack,” the statement continued. “The FAA is working...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is “continuing to assess the cause of the outage” that resulted in flights being temporarily grounded Wednesday morning, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a video update Wednesday afternoon. “The most important thing I want passengers to know is our number one priority is safety,” he began. “It’s one of the reasons why today for example, while this issue was being worked out on the system side, there was this ground stop of about an hour and a half nationwide to make absolutely sure out of an abundance of caution that no aircraft could take...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday responded to the news of a catastrophic Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) computer outage by ordering the department to turn the systems back on. “The president directed DOT/FAA to restore the system quickly and safely, and to determine causes,” White House chief of staff Ron Klain informed the public on social media, asserting that Biden was on top of the situation. .@POTUS was briefed by @SecretaryPete early this morning. @POTUS directed DOT/FAA to restore the system quickly and safely, and to determine causes. @SecretaryPete will provide @POTUS an update later this morning. — Ronald Klain (@WHCOS)...