The issue follows a separate incident on 24 July in which the PlayStation Network also suffered an outage for several hours. Both incidents have created unease about a so-called digital-only future in games and the questions over game ownership and licensing that come with it. In June, Rockstar Games announced that physical copies of GTA…
Gatwick Airport says its water supply has returned after passengers faced long queues for toilets and closed restaurants and bars after a major supply outage. Both terminals at the UK’s second busiest airport lost running water on Sunday morning after a power failure at a treatment works that serves the area. People told the BBC…
A PlayStation Network outage which left some gamers unable to play digital games for hours has been resolved. According to Down Detector, which tracks outages, tens of thousands of people reported problems globally, external with the service on Friday. The outage, which affected gamers’ ability to launch games, apps or network features on their PlayStation,…
A major outage at Australia’s largest telecommunications company has led to cancelled train services, left thousands of customers without mobile coverage, and sparked an investigation into emergency calls that were not connected. Telstra’s chief financial officer Michael Ackland apologised for the issue which began at 04:30 local time on Wednesday and affected “some mobile calls…
An outage affecting web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has taken out vast swathes of the web, including websites, banks and some government services. Amazon said on Monday morning that the outage had been “fully mitigated” and that most services are returning to normal after an hours-long stretch during which much of the internet…
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Healthcare company Kaiser Permanente is dealing with a system outage that is forcing its hospitals and pharmacies to fill out prescriptions with pen and paper — and is slowing down services at other parts of the company, too. “Kaiser Permanente is currently experiencing network interruptions, at one of our data centers, which is impacting some…
Shorouk Express The southeastern part of France, including the city of Cannes, suffered a power outage on Saturday, temporarily disrupting the international film festival. About 160,000 households lost power on Saturday morning around 10 a.m. following a fire at a high-voltage transformer and damage to power lines, France’s electricity operator RTE said, adding it is…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Elon Musk took two significant financial blows on Monday, with stocks in Tesla slumping dramatically to a lower price than before Donald Trump’s…
