Facebook Inc’s Instagram said on Monday it is testing a feature to notify users of outages or technical issues directly on the photo-sharing app, days after two outages disrupted the social media giant’s services. The test will run in the United States and will go on for a few months, Instagram said in a blog…
Instagram Testing Feature to Notify Users of Outage or Issue Inside App
NTD Business Full Broadcast (Oct. 4)
A global outage for users of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. what’s the possible reason for it? US factory activity remains strong, despite many challenges, we hear from one of them. And the Biden administration sets out what trade with China will look like– as China fails to meet its promises on Trump’s the phase one…
System Outage Grounds United Flights Briefly
NEW YORK—United Airlines suffered a brief system outage early Friday and the Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop of less than an hour for all United flights. The ground stop order was lifted before 8 a.m. at the airline’s request, according to an advisory issued by the FAA. “We experienced a system outage this…
Amazon Restores Service After Global Outage
Amazon said its online stores had returned to normal services after a global outage disrupted shopping on its country sites. According to outage monitoring website Downdetector, services were disrupted for nearly two hours and at the peak of the disruption, more than 38,000 user reports indicated issues with Amazon’s online stores. They occurred on Sunday…
Websites of Major US Airlines Face Outage: Downdetector
Websites of major U.S. airline companies American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and Delta Air Lines faced an outage early on Thursday, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector. More than a thousand user reports indicated problems at Southwest Airlines, with over 400 user reports indicating the same for Delta Air Lines, according to Downdetector. That…
Major Australian Banks, US Airlines Hit by Widespread Internet Outages
SYDNEY—Websites of dozens of financial institutions and airlines in Australia and the United States were briefly hit by an internet outage on Thursday, after a second major blackout in little more than a week. The Australian outage, which also affected the country’s central bank, was caused by glitches on the servers of Akamai, an operator…
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, blamed the problem on a software bug that was triggered when a customer changed a setting. The problem at Fastly meant internet users couldn’t connect to a host of popular websites early Tuesday…
4 Die in House Fire During Texas Power Outage
HOUSTON—A fire official says three young children and their grandmother died in a Houston-area house fire early Tuesday morning while it’s believed they were trying to stay warm during a power outage. Sugar Land Fire and EMS spokesman Doug Adolph said that when firefighters arrived after the call at about 2 a.m., the house was…
Power Outage in Northern Mexico Hits 400,000 Users, President Says
MEXICO CITY—Mexico is working to fix a power outage that hit around 400,000 users and was caused by a cold snap in the north of the country, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday. Amid the bad weather, national electricity grid operator CENACE said on Twitter that the outage had come about due to…
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