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internet and communications problems that could prevent users from accessing products on its websites or cause outdated information to be displayed.
Incredibly curious if this is related to the FAA going down…
911 services are also apparently having issues right now, according to DownDetector.
https://downdetector.com/status/911/
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
my area’s 911 is fine. am first responder. my pager is working fine. hope nothing spreads.
The word we got is that problems very regional - the core issue is that some 911 dispatches when overwhelmed (like what happens when the FAA does something dramatic like shut down the whole of US controlled airspace…) aren’t able to shift any overload to other centers like they normally would. I have been told this is a result of microsoft’s outage hitting enterprise Exchange servers, though I’m unclear of the specifics on how the network relies on that product…
Possibly a false report. NWS says they’re not down.
This article has been updated too.
The US National Weather Service said on Friday its radars were operating normally and its radar website was fully operational.
God i hope the whole net goes down. All cloud services. Just, blackout.
Doom and gloom baby
Can it wait until Monday? I want to squeeze in a couple levels this weekend, got a long enough road to 60 already.
Sounds like some shit the tech bro /acc losers on X genuinely say and believe
I’m with you gib. I just spent the last week with only my phone. Went through my hot spot allowance in a day. Checked some stuff out of the library, and downloaded some games. It’s been pretty peaceful. Let it all stay down for a few weeks.
Did they also deploy an AI tool yesterday, like the FAA did?
It’s back up.
The US National Weather Service said on Friday its radars were operating normally and its radar website was fully operational. The NWS said outdated content from isolated webpages had been circulating but that there was no radar outage. Its website previously showed 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
Just blame Microsoft and go home folks.
Always a safe bet at any time not just this weekend
15 years ago, we started saying “thanks Obama” as an ironic nod to both his impotence and the harm coming from elsewhere. I miss that
911 is down too according to https://downdetector.com/
once again, down detector only measures how many people are looking at down detector, not any actual systems, and it should not be used as a reference for anything
no, it’s not all 911. that system is incredibly segregated. not all perfect. but not all linked like faa systems are.
