CBC New Brunswick4d ago
Copper theft shut down internet for some Bell users in southwest N.B.
Bell Media says stolen copper cable caused an internet outage for almost 200 people in three southwestern N.B. communities. The outages were expected to be resolved by 5 p.m. AT Sunday.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/stolen-copper-bell-service-9.7129729?cmp=rss
Metro – Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro6d ago

Russians use walkie-talkies and paper maps after Putin turns off internet

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/03/14/russians-use-walkie-talkies-paper-maps-putin-turns-off-internet-27425146/

Brian Greenberg Mar 12

Barely a week goes by without a major digital pillar, from Claude to government portals, vanishing from the grid. While it feels like the technology's getting worse, the reality is our infrastructure's become dangerously consolidated. We've moved from a "shop on every corner" model of distributed servers to a massive, centralized cloud. Today, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are essentially the power, water, and roads of the internet.

This centralization means a single configuration typo can now ground airlines or paralyze hospitals. Beyond human error, we're seeing a shift in global conflict. Cyberattacks are increasingly used in the "gray zone," a state of tension where adversaries cripple economic wealth by targeting our digital infrastructure. You should reconsider your team’s reliance on single-provider stacks, because in a world of cloud monocultures, being "online" is a privilege that can be revoked by a single bad update.

🧠 The shift to cloud computing has replaced distributed hardware with a few massive vulnerabilities.
⚡ Ransomware groups are moving away from tech giants toward softer targets like local infrastructure.
🎓 State-sponsored hackers are targeting specific data rather than broad disruption to avoid all-out war.
🔍 The 2024 CrowdStrike incident remains the gold standard for how one file can freeze the global economy.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2507517-claude-ai-why-are-there-so-many-internet-outages/
#InternetOutage #CloudInfrastructure #CyberWarfare #TechStrategy #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity

Claude AI: Why are there so many internet outages?

AI chatbot Claude going down is just one example of a recent IT outage. One of the main vulnerabilities of the modern internet is to blame for the growing number of incidents

New Scientist
seanpm2001 🇺🇦️🇬🇱Mar 11
Spectrum (company) had an Internet and cable outage in Walla Walla today from 11:57 am to around 1:50 pm. They never acknowledged this publicly, not even trying to explain what went wrong. So much for their "99.9% reliability" (this isn't even the first outage this year) luckily I was able to do other things in this time, and was pretty much unaffected, other than my telehealth meeting abruptly ending.
#holdingthemaccountable #spectrum #internet #cable #wallawalla #wallawallawashington #outage #internetoutage
DysruptionHubMar 4
Ohio County Schools, West Virginia, restore internet after potential cyberattack #WestVirginia #OhioCountySchools #Cyberattack #InternetOutage #K12 #EducationIT https://dysruptionhub.com/ohio-county-schools-outage-west-virginia/
Ohio County Schools, West Virginia, restore internet after potential cyberattack

District says it found no evidence of student or employee data risk after shutting off internet access as a precaution

DysruptionHub
Fluffgar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Feb 24
Another virginmedia outage?
#VirginMedia #outage #InternetOutage
https://downdetector.co.uk/status/virgin-media/
Virgin Media or Mobile down? Current problems and issues

Real-time Virgin Media status, problems and issues. Internet, mobile or cable tv down? We'll tell you what is going on.

downdetector.co.uk
Metro – Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from MetroFeb 16

Elon Musk’s X goes down for millions of users worldwide

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/16/x-goes-thousands-people-including-website-app-26933363/

Yehor 🇺🇦Jan 27

I'm back online from the longest internet outage in my life - 19 hours!
Have no idea what was broken on my #ISP side, but guess that was something huge.

A lot of things went wrong while offline. I had #HomeAssistant connection issues on #iOS. I had #Plex issues playing something. I even had issues with #PhilipsHue lights, because the time on the bridge switched to something completely unrelated to reality.

My #homelab was not prepared, but lessons were learned.
#InternetOutage #disaster

Show threadKevin Karhan Jan 27

But for those that don't know, #Toosheh is a pretty cool #datacasting tech which yeets stuff down at 51dBW directly onto #Iran, thus is pretty hard to jam or even detect, as propably a regular wok with a cheap LNB on a broom duct-taped to it can do the reception.

So if you know anyone stuck in #Iran and having to deal with #InternetCensorship and #internetOutage / #InternetBlackout / #InternetShutdown there, and they happen to have a DVB-S Reciever with "PVR ready" function (i.e. recording to a USB drive), Satellite Dish & LNB [all 3 are illegal to own in Iran, so best not ask them over the phone!] recommend them to shove a 4 GB Stick into it and let it record for >1 hour, then end the recording and use their application to extract the files in it.

  • The program loops hourly, so it can be programmed for recording when noone else is using the Reciever (i.e. late at night, early morning or at lunchtime)...

The parameters for the reciever are:

YahSat-1 @ 52,5°E
11.766 MHz / 11,766 GHz
Vertical Polarization
DVB-S (QPSK, 0,35 ROF, 16200+Pilot
27.500 kSymbols/s
FEC 7/8

They should find a station with a green title card and text in Persian.

All that's needed beyond the reciever is a Device with either Linux, Android or Windows to run their decoder tool.

  • AFAICT the package is substantial (~ 2GB) and should contain multimedia, VPN/Proxy details and @torproject / #TorBrowser as well as instructions.

#Iran #CantStopTheSignal #Datacasting #Airgapped #Broadcasting #TV #Satellite

QuasitJan 26

Aaaaand...our internet crashed again about half an hour ago. So we pulled out the Netgear modem and router, and replaced them with the Xfinity combo gateway. Didn't take too long to set up.

I just ran a speed test on Ookla. 538mbps download; that's about 400mbps SLOWER than before. But it's 295mbps up, which is over 250mbps faster than we've ever seen. So...I'll have to get in touch with them, I guess.

#Xfinity #Comcast #InternetOutage #Internet #WiFi