Slack forms safety engineering team to reduce outages

(Reuters) — Collaboration software provider Slack Technologies Inc is building a safety engineering team that will develop methods to help reduce the disruptions that have been more frequent on Slack’s service than rival systems, the company told Reuters. Recurring outages have prevented Slack users from connecting with its service as the fas…Read More

Facebook and Instagram outages reported across US and Europe

Published time: 25 Jan, 2018 19:03 Edited time: 25 Jan, 2018 19:18 Facebook and Instagram users across the United States and Europe have reported problems accessing the social networks. Both of the social media platforms aren’t working for many people in cities across the two continents with a large volume of Facebook issues reported in […]

Leading cryptocurrency exchange faces outages as bitcoin rivals surge

Enlarge / Litecoin’s price has doubled in the last 24 hours. (credit: CoinMarketCap) This month’s cryptocurrency boom isn’t limited to bitcoin. Over the last 24 hours, two of bitcoin’s biggest rivals—Litecoin and Ethereum’s ether—have enjoyed huge price gains. Trading volume has been so intense that one of the leading cryptocurrency exchange services, Coinbase, has suffered […]

LA plant explosion sparks widespread power outages (VIDEOS)

Published time: 9 Jul, 2017 11:01 A power plant explosion has left large areas of Los Angeles without electricity, affecting homes, businesses and even vital infrastructure like traffic lights. The outages hit more than 140,000 homes and businesses in the San Fernando Valley Saturday, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) confirmed. “LADWP […]

Ofcom proposes free cash for lengthy broadband outages

Under new proposals by Ofcom, Brits could soon receive automatic compensation for slow broadband repairs and missed engineer appointments. The measures are part of a larger crackdown on the UK’s telephone and internet service providers. Openreach, the arm of BT that handles broadband infrastructure, was forced to become its own, “legally separate company” earlier this […]