I can’t find any other news stories which corroborate this story, other than Downdetector. 298 reports on DD is also pretty insignificant compared to what one would expect during such an incident.
Interestingly, https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/live-blog/microsoft-outage-outlook-teams-updates-fix-rcna609118 refers to multiple officials stating that their 911 services were not impacted by the MSFT outage.
Reader beware.
“This tech”, eh? Probably not an automated clickbait filter, then?
Unfortunately, a lot of it comes down to personal connections. Seems to be the only way to cut through the noise these days. I know this isn’t a satisfying answer for young people starting out who don’t have that network.
I am saddened to hear of their closure. As a fellow oldie who began reading them in high school when they debuted (and thought of myself as very sophisticated for doing so), I shall miss them.
I went looking in the Wayback Machine for the earliest archive of salon.com, which is from April 3, 1997 - https://web.archive.org/web/19970403013441/http://www.salon.com/
Amusingly, this domain wasn’t even theirs at the time, since the page welcomes hair salon professionals to the WWW! However, that site links to “Salon Magazine” via the charmingly quaint “E-Zines” link, which links to a different domain, salon1999.com . IA’s first capture of this site seems to be from December, 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981212032509/http://www.salon1999.com/
Are the first three years of Salon archived anywhere, or lost to internet history?
Funeral directors, too!
Between this and the Russian incident that everyone has stopped talking about…
The sternly worded letters have already been written.
All too true, unfortunately. No honor among thieves!
Very tempting to take a list of IP address ranges such as https://networksdb.io/ip-addresses-of/meta-platforms-inc and add them to our WAF blocklist, since I assume they won’t be honest about their user agent string when scraping.
And specifically gives Meta the right to create “test credentials” on sites and scrape resultant deep content such as product docs that are only available with an account. This is far more invasive and concerning than traditional site scraping and indexing.(refs: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/16/meta-grants-itself-right-to-scrape-content-from-business-customers-for-model-training/5303658 , https://m.facebook.com/legal/commercial_terms_preview )
True. However, the emphysema and lung cancer are rather telling, even if they didn’t ultimately cause his demise.
Picking one of the Camel endorsers out of the hat, Brian Keith: Quoting his Wikipedia bio: “…He suffered from emphysema and lung cancer during the latter part of his life, despite having quit smokingten years earlier.” … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Keith
Yup, I was there too! I remember Game Boy being a huge hit when they came out. Having one conferred instant coolness at my school.
Voyager. I’ve been extremely happy with it.
Was sunscreen not commonly used in those days? I can’t think of the last time I saw someone with such severe sunburn.
For those who’d like to see one of these aircraft in person (albeit a Short Solent rather than a Short Empire), the Oakland Air Museum (attached to Oakland Airport, in the San Francisco Bay Area) has one, and they open it for tours – https://www.oaklandaviationmuseum.org/short-solent-aircraft-tour I’ve been, and it’s very neat – there’s a small tropically themed stand-up bar in the cabin.
Thanks, CubitOom . Your points are well taken. Between this report, the Microsoft outage, and the US aviation ground-stop, there’s a lot of speculation floating around, so I’m keen to try and substantiate news. No patch on your well intentioned post, though. It’ll be interesting to see what transpires here.