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A shadowy left-wing group has said it was behind the suspected arson that prompted the shutdown of a major Tesla plant near Berlin. The authorities and Tesla owner Elon Musk have condemned the actions of “terrorists.”  Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg in Gruenheide was evacuated on Tuesday when a nearby electricity pylon …

A massive power outage left thousands of people without electricity in Taiwan on Thursday morning, with authorities blaming the grid malfunction on a sudden system failure at Hsinta Power Plant. Taiwan Power Co. confirmed that the blackout was caused by “equipment failure” at the island’s second largest coal-fired power plant …

Tesla cars require the use of a cell phone to gain access, though other options such as a keycard are available as backup. Since Friday evening, as many as 500 people worldwide reported on social media that they couldn’t access their vehicle by either method and were receiving a server …

Telegram founder Pavel Durov took to the platform on Tuesday to congratulate his employees on a job well done, noting that not only had Telegram “welcomed over 70 million refugees from other platforms in one day” but that the platform had worked “flawlessly for the vast majority of our users” …

Facebook has confirmed that a routing problem throttled its services, bringing operations at its site, as well as that of Facebook-owned Instagram and WhatsApp, to a screeching halt.  “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues …

After mass complaints about the various platforms being down and users getting error messages, Facebook said it was working to resolve the issue. As the platforms have remained down for hours, more and more have piled onto Zuckerberg and gone to other social media apps that aren’t experiencing such issues, …

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Some of the internet’s most visited websites, including Amazon, Reddit, Twitch, GitHub, eBay, Etsy, Pinterest, and Stack Overflow, went offline, leaving many users from around the world wondering what happened. American and European news outlets were particularly hard hit, with websites including the New York Times, the Guardian, the Independent, …

The cloud computing services company, which is used by many websites across the world, revealed on Tuesday morning that the “issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented,” under an hour after it first announced it was investigating the issue. A glitch in Fastly’s system was allegedly behind …

The tracking website DownDetector showed more than 50,000 reports of the outage in just 15 minutes, shortly after 5 pm Pacific time, the timezone at Twitter’s San Francisco, California headquarters. Attempts to access Twitter’s blog returned a text error message about “upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers” due to …