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Blackout Leaves 91% of Venezuela Without an Internet Connection

Another massive, nationwide blackout struck Venezuela early Wednesday just as service was gradually being restored from two days of intermittent service. The extent of the outage can be seen in this chart provided by Netblocks.org, which tracks Internet disruptions and shutdowns in different countries and has become widely used in Venezuela amid the lack of…
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Several major US airlines hit by flight check-in system outage

Customers across the U.S. reported airline computer issues at a number of airports. A flood of tweets began to roll in a little after 11am ET (8am PT) about computer or network issues. Passengers on the ground said the issues related to the flight check-in systems being unable to issue boarding passes. A spokesperson for…
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