Computer Network Outages
Twitter Is Down in a Worldwide Outage
Twitter, the social media giant with 330 million active users, was back online on Thursday morning after reports of a worldwide outage that came at a sensitive time for the company, which is locked in a heated legal battle with the billionaire Elon Musk over its acquisition. Downdetector, a website that tracks internet disruptions, recorded […]
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In Canada, Rogers Network Disruption Prompts Outages
TORONTO — An outage on Friday at Rogers, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies, caused significant internet, cable and cellphone disruptions, mostly in Ontario and Quebec, the country’s most populous provinces. The outage affected emergency services and some police services, including law enforcement agencies in Toronto and Ottawa, which were warning that some Rogers customers […]
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Chip Errors Are Becoming More Common and Harder to Track Down
Imagine for a moment that the millions of computer chips inside the servers that power the largest data centers in the world had rare, almost undetectable flaws. And the only way to find the flaws was to throw those chips at giant computing problems that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago. As the […]
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Four Resolutions for a Healthier Tech Life in 2022
The coronavirus pandemic has been packed with plenty of nasty tech surprises. We ran into the problem of a perpetual scarcity of hardware, like game consoles and graphics cards. Apple this year announced a major change to its data practices, including a tool to scan iPhones for child pornography, which critics labeled an invasion of […]
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