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Frustrating Xbox owners around the globe, reports are flooding in across the web that Xbox Live is currently down. Whether you're looking to jump into a game, stream your favorite shows, or navigate the dashboard, users are finding themselves locked out of any functionality. Users from Reddit to Twitter to my own living rooms are reporting that accessing any service is impossible. This includes playing games, accessing cloud saves, using apps, or even browsing the Xbox Store. The crux of the problem seems to be tied to the Xbox Live login. X...

Hey Geeks! Some big news hitting the wires today. A massive tech outage has thrown a wrench into major services worldwide, messing with everything from public transport to hospitals and banks. Here's the scoop: What's Causing the Outage? The chaos seems to be linked to a software update from Crowdstrike, a well-known player in cybersecurity, providing services to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, that affected Microsoft cloud systems. This update caused a glitch in Falcon; their cloud file protection system effectively blocke...

It weakened from a Category 2 hurricane to a tropical depression as it moved northeastward over central Mississippi

Verizon Fios internet went out for four hours early Tuesday along a swathe of the East Coast, with thousands of customers reporting issues online.

Washington — Hurricanes and high winds could “significantly impact” the U.S. bulk-power system and lead to the release of hazardous chemicals if facilities lose power, the Chemical Safety Board says.

How can a facility plan ahead for extreme weather events to keep its safety showers and eyewash stations supplied and functional?

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Outage reports had come down to less than 500 as of 6:30 p.m. ET (2230 GMT), according to Downdetector.

In today’s dynamic work environments, an increasing number of employees find themselves working alone.

Addressing 911 Failures: Cell Over Satellite Highlights the Importance of Backup Communication Systems or Business Continuity as a Service

The New York Daily News reports that union officials are claiming that 9/11 first responders have not received workers’ compensation benefits since the CrowdStrike outage last week. Direct deposit payments ranging…

EDITOR’S NOTE: The New York State Workers Compensation Board said Friday afternoon that the majority of online services should now be restored. “Users may still experience lingering issues with some applications,”…

The software update that grounded airplanes and disrupted hospitals worldwide Friday also wreaked havoc on workers’ compensation regulators in some states. Officials from Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York,…

Bryan Reinero talks with Jason Hand about handling outages and responding to failures. The episode explores basic problem-solving strategies and diagnostic techniques, organizing teams to address incidents efficiently, communicating with stakeholders, learning from incidents, and managing stress.

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Three months ago, cybersecurity platform provider CrowdStrike released an update that caused 8.5 million Microsoft Windows PCs and servers to crash. The glitch had a ripple effect across industries and global supply chains – almost three-quarters of the world’s computers use a Microsoft’s Windows operating system.

Spotify, Snapchat and Google Cloud report outages

Leverage the Crowdstrike outage to position your MSP as a business continuity expert. Use timely, relevant content from our extensive MSP library to attract new clients.

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A recent spate of Xcel power outages across metro Denver has prompted the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to consider opening an investigation.

The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is looking into recent power outages reported by Xcel Energy customers.

A handful of voting stations were temporarily closed due to power outages on Saturday morning during the final day of B.C.’s provincial election, while the only station in Dease Lake was fully closed because an election official had travel difficulties.

'Breakaway link' is key feature in new, safer utility connector

Reports of the outages spiked between midnight and 2 am EST, with the network receiving thousands of complaints during this time, according to Down Detector.

AT&T cell phone subscribers in Kent and Sussex Counties are experiencing difficulties when dialing and texting 911. In case of an emergency, please call the following emergency numbers: Kent County 911 Admin (302)734-6050 Dover PD Admin (302)736-7111 Sussex County 911 (302)855-2970 Rehoboth Beach (302)227-2577

T-Mobile and its Mint Mobile subsidiary had trouble on Tuesday.

T-Mobile, Mint Mobile outage maps: See which regions are affected

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Around half the people in the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte were without potable water Tuesday after a "technical incident" at a treatment plant, a local authority said in a statement. The "event of electrical origin" at the Ouroveni plant overnight from Monday to Tuesday "is leading to water cuts mostly located in the centre and south" of Mayotte's main island Grande Terre, the p

Food Safety During Power Outages

Average U.S. nuclear capacity outages during the summer of 2024 (June 1 through August 31) decreased to about 2.6 gigawatts (GW) per day from 3.1 GW in 2023, similar to average summer daily outages in 2022. Outages this past summer were highest in mid-July and early August, averaging 3.1 GW per day and peaking at 5.7 GW on the last day of August. More recently, nuclear outages have exceeded the five-year average because of weather-related disruptions and refueling outages.

Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a daylong outage left small business owners unable to process payments. The Block-owned company had, up until Friday morning on the U.S. West Coast, been battling a prolonged outage that had downed its services since Thursday afternoon. In a new posting on its status […]

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Square said there was “no evidence” a cyberattack caused an outage that left customers and small businesses unable to use the payment giant’s technology on Thursday through early-Friday. The payments technology giant said in a post-mortem of the daylong outage that the outage was caused by a DNS issue. DNS, or domain name system, is […]

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At the peak of the outage, lasting over an hour, over 14,000 users reported issues with accessing Instagram, while around 7,000 and 2,700 users faced issues with Facebook and WhatsApp, respectively

Reports from Downdetector.com revealed access issues, with X users unable to view posts and encountering a “Welcome to X!” message, while X Pro (previously TweetDeck) experienced loading problems displaying a “Waiting for posts” pop-up.

The problem, reported around 9 p.m., affected users in India and beyond

Outage tracking website Downdetector.com said ChatGPT's services were down for about half an hour, affecting over 19,403 users as of 7:13 p.m. ET (0013 GMT on Saturday)

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, it has attracted 250 million weekly active users

Canva, the popular graphic design platform, faced a temporary outage that affected users worldwide

The Detroit Power Outage brought eight hours of hardship to Detroit on Dec. 2 — hardship that could have been averted with microgrids.

NASA lost power on Sunday in California, delaying the launch of the IRIS sun observatory by one day.

A network device receives notification configuration information that includes a time interval criteria and a selected geographical area for providing power outage notifications. The network device receives, during a particular time interval, a loss-of-power alarm from a network interface device (NID) associated with a customer premises. The loss-of-power alarm includes a particular NID identifier. The network device retrieves, from a database, customer configuration information that associates the particular NID identifier with a particular address and identifies a power outage in a particular region associated with the particular address. The identifying is based on receiving the loss-of-power alarm and determining if other loss-of-power alarms have been received from other NIDs in the same region and within the particular time interval.

According to Emerald Downs President Phil Ziegler, impending darkness would have placed horses and riders at risk, and made cancellation a necessity.

Financial penalties have been imposed on Western Power for failing to meet its target for service performance to customers in regional areas.

Australia's passage to the women's football tournament at the Tokyo Olympics was confirmed with an unconvincing second-leg win over Vietnam.

A power outage in Adelaide has resurfaced hours after it had been resolved, impacting businesses and customers in the busiest section of the Adelaide CBD. The cause is still being investigated by authorities.

Damage to a fibre optic cable causes a 20-hour communications blackout across Western Australia's Kimberley region, proving bad for business, but reigniting old-fashioned conversation.

A telecommunications consumer group wants enhanced back-ups and safeguards after the telephone network for 50,000 people was cut off in the Kimberley.

The clean-up is underway after severe thunderstorms left a trail of damage but little precious rain in parts of South-East Queensland and the Darling Downs.

Thousands of homes are still without power this morning as a series of severe thunderstorms dumped heavy rain across parts of Sydney, the central coast and Wollongong last night.

Each year, weather-related power outages cost the U.S. economy as much as $33 billion a year. Additionally, one severe weather event has the potential to impact the daily lives and routines of millions of people. As 2017 marks the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, The Weather Company, an IBM Business (NYSE: IBM) and Zpryme are releasing the results of a survey that found that U.S. utility companies still feel underprepared for weather-related outages and that their reactive approach to outage prediction leads to lost time and resources.

IBM and Health Benefits Limited announce agreement to introduce National Infrastructure Platform to District Health Boards, based on IBM Cloud.