Tag: Service outages
Cuba’s internet cutoff: The go-to tactic for global despots
Cubans facing the country’s worst economic crisis in decades took to the streets over the weekend. In turn, authorities blocked social media sites in...
California tests off-the-grid solutions to power outages
SAN FRANCISCO — When a wildfire tore through Briceburg nearly two years ago, the tiny community on the edge of Yosemite National Park lost...
Rolling blackouts for parts of US Northwest amid heat wave
SPOKANE, Wash. — The unprecedented Northwest U.S. heat wave that slammed Seattle and Portland, Oregon, moved inland Tuesday — prompting a electrical utility in...
Tens of thousands in dark after blackout hits USVI
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. Virgin Islands' power company on Friday reported a complete blackout in St. John and St. Thomas, which...
Power outage hits 190K in Puerto Rico amid growing outrage
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A sudden power failure left some 190,000 clients in the dark across Puerto Rico late Wednesday, enraging many who...
Hong Kong’s stock exchange hit in latest wave of web outages
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange said it was hit by technical problems Thursday as a wave of brief internet outages appeared to hit dozens...
In Lebanon, a search for medicine and a stranger’s help
To all the struggles of life in Lebanon — the pandemic, the power outages, the inflation, the punishing financial and political crises — add...
Fastly blames global internet outage on software bug
LONDON — Fastly, the company hit by a major outage that caused many of the world's top websites to go offline briefly this week,...
Texas governor says power grid fixed; experts cite problems
AUSTIN, Texas — Despite experts who say Texas' power grid remains vulnerable, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott declared Tuesday that new reforms “fix all of...
FDA warns doctors to stop using heart pump tied to deaths
WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators warned surgeons Thursday to stop implanting a heart pump made by Medtronic due to power failures recently tied to...
