A suspicious fire hit the city of Cannes with a widespread loss of power Saturday morning — just hours ahead of the film festival’s closing ceremony. Several movies were wiped from the schedule, but the majority of the iconic event, including the final bash, will not be affected because organizers swiftly found an alternative power … Read more
Score another win for cable television as the streaming platform Hulu had a nightmare situation Thursday night during the Guardians’ ALCS Game 3 win over the Yankees. Many fans rushed to social media during the fateful 10th inning to express dissatisfaction with the streaming giant owned by Disney as their live sports watching came to … Read more
The Transportation Department said on Tuesday it is opening an investigation into Delta Air Lines after the carrier canceled more than 5,000 flights since Friday as it struggles to recover from a global cyber outage that snarled airlines worldwide. While other carriers have been able to resume normal operations, Delta has continued to cancel hundreds of flights daily. … Read more
Delta Air Lines canceled more than 700 flights on Monday, as the air carrier continued to struggle to restore operations after last week’s global cyber outage, even as other airlines were recovering from the incident. About 19% of Delta’s flights had been canceled Monday, according to data from FlightAware, out of roughly 1,300 flights to or from the US … Read more
Those who were left delayed or stranded due to the global IT outage Friday might be entitled to financial compensation. The CrowdStrike outage forced airlines such as Delta, United and American Airlines to ground flights due to issues with communications, leading to “mass chaos” for travelers. Globally, there were 46,013 total delays on Friday, the … Read more
A cancer patient says surgery to remove a four-centimeter mass from her brain was cancelled this week — due to the worldwide IT glitch. Chantelle Mooney, 41, was due to have a craniotomy on Friday 19 July — but says the surgery was cancelled due to the worldwide IT outage. Chantelle was diagnosed with stage … Read more
This airline literally wrote its own ticket. A passenger in India was flabbergasted after receiving a hand-scrawled boarding pass amid the Crowdstrike/Microsoft outage affecting computer systems across the globe. An X post detailing the scribbled ticket incident garnered over 5 million views as of Friday morning. “I got my first hand-written boarding pass today,” exclaimed … Read more
Those hoping to catch up on the latest sports highlights Friday morning on “SportsCenter” had to settle for alternative ESPN programming. As the global tech outage wreaked havoc on the world Friday morning, the media giant could not air its flagship program and instead broadcast “Unsportsmanlike” with hosts Courtney Cronin and Freddie Coleman. “The Microsoft … Read more
Their computer system was Mc-Done-alds. McDonald’s restaurants around the globe were forced to suspend online orders following a computer system failure that impacted outlets in the United States, China, Australia and other countries. “We are aware of a technology outage, which impacted our restaurants; the issue is now being resolved,” the burger giant said in … Read more
Is there another force at play? A massive cellphone outage affecting users across the US quickly piqued interest on Thursday — and so did the Netflix thriller “Leave the World Behind.” Subscribers to the Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile networks have experienced a drop in service and the reason has yet to be determined. Many AT&T … Read more