The US National Weather Service said on Friday it was experiencing nationwide internet and communications problems that could prevent users from accessing products on its websites or cause outdated information to be displayed.
The US National Weather Service said on Friday it was experiencing nationwide internet and communications problems that could prevent users from accessing products on its websites or cause outdated information to be displayed.
Hopefully that’s just caused by a reaction to the FAA thing and isn’t a simultaneous failure - after every major national event like this, 911 gets overwhelmed with people calling in to find out what’s happening / report that their wacky conspiracy theories are coming true / etc.
Though, several sources are also reporting that it’s down.
This administration is grossly incompetent and full of liars, so it’s impossible to take what they say at face value. This opens the door wide to speculation. Did it have something to do with their AI rollout? Is it a cyberattack by Iran that they are denying? Who knows. The one thing I do know is that there is no confidence in this administration and the shit show they’ve been running.
(Gossip that I can’t source but is pretty reputable is that the Microsoft issues yesterday are responsible for the 911 instability, it’s unrelated to the FAA stuff)
(Honestly I’m pretty comfortable believing it wasn’t a cyberattack - if a group or foreign power had the ability to do this, they would have waited two weeks for Thanksgiving to inflict maximum chaos instead of doing it on some random friday.)
The official explanation they just gave at their press flop is that the network collapsed under unprecedented load, their routers and stuff went down, this is an isolated network, and it has nothing to do with SMART the massive new AI system they just finished switching on yesterday. And that runs on the same isolated network. The one that was suddenly and unprecedentedly overloaded leading to cascading failures. The one chosen specifically to kill kuzco. Nothing to do with it.
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Well, I’m convinced.
The UK is also dealing with services down, possibly cyber security incident
Yeah, got caught up in the microsoft clusterfuck. Can’t believe the entire NHS runs on a single fucking unified .net app (jesus, even the US isn’t that stupid). I haven’t seen anyone calling it a cyberattack yet tho, if you have more info I’d love a better idea wtf is happening.
I only saw some clip from BBC tiktok someone shared