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X Outage: Thousands Report Issues With Elon Musk's Platform
X outage: Thousands report issues with Elon Musk's platform:
Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced massive outages throughout Monday morning that impacted thousands of users in the US and UK.
The outage came as platform monitor Downdetector said it had seen tens of thousands of reports from US users of technical issues affecting the platform.
There were more than 8,000 outage reports from UK users shortly before 14:00 GMT, following a brief but notable surge of reports on Monday morning.
Connection issues lasted for some users into the afternoon.
Many users trying to access the platform and refresh feeds on its app and desktop site during Monday's outages were met with a loading icon.
Musk claims the outages stemmed from a "massive cyber-attack" that originated "in the Ukraine area".
But the technology billionaire, who has been a frequent critic of Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelensky, offered no evidence to support the claim and did not say whether or not he thought state actors were involved.
Earlier, he posted on X that "either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved".
[...] "We're not sure exactly what happened but there was a massive cyber-attack to try and bring down the X system with [Internet Protocol] addresses originating in the Ukraine area," Musk said in an interview with the Fox Business channel.
Alp Toker, director of Netblocks, which monitors the connectivity of web services, said its own metrics suggested the outages could well be linked to a cyber-attack.
"What we've been seeing is consistent with what we've seen in past denial of service attacks, rather than a configuration or coding error in the platform," he told the BBC.
Elon Musk Claims X Being Targeted in 'Massive Cyberattack' as Service Goes Down
Elon Musk claims X being targeted in 'massive cyberattack' as service goes down:
Elon Musk's X social media platform is experiencing multiple outages. Downdetector.com says more than 28,000 users reported an outage at 11:28 a.m.
The social media platform X (FKA Twitter) went down three separate times with the longest outage lasting several hours starting around 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET.
No official words has come from X save for a single tweet from owner Elon Musk claiming that the outage was due to a 'massive cyberattack.'
More than 40,000 Downdetector reports poured in from users during the second outage — around 35,000 during the third outage — stating that they couldn't even get the X website to load, and it spiked hard again for a third one.
Elon Musk Says DOGE Involvement is Making It Harder to Run His Businesses
Elon Musk says DOGE involvement is making it harder to run his businesses:
In an interview with Fox's Larry Kudlow on Monday, billionaire Elon Musk admitted that his involvement with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Donald Trump's initiative to reduce federal spending, is making it tougher to run his many businesses: X, Tesla, xAI, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neuralink, and Starlink.
"How are you running your other businesses?" Kudlow asked at one point. "With great difficulty," Musk replied. "Frankly, I can't believe I'm here doing this."
Musk and DOGE, which has around 100 staffers — a number that Musk expects to climb to 200 — have been criticized for overpromising and underdelivering on spending cuts across U.S government agencies. Government contracting experts say that DOGE's online record of reductions contains inaccurate information and inflates claims of "savings" by including misleading math about contract cancellations.
DOGE has also put the U.S.'s data and computing infrastructure at risk through its work, according to cybersecurity analysts. DOGE staffers, some of whom have little experience working with government systems, have reportedly accessed agency data through insecure means and copied that data onto unprotected servers.
[...] While Musk complains that his work advising DOGE has stretched him thin, the billionaire has been accused of using the initiative to weaken regulations that oversee his business ventures.
When asked by Kudlow if he would extend his involvement in DOGE by "another year," Musk said, "Yeah." "We're just getting things done, as opposed to writing a report," Musk added. "Like, reports don't mean anything. You've got to actually take action."
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(Score: 5, Funny) by Tork on Tuesday March 11, @04:21PM (14 children)
The Third Age. 🤡
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday March 11, @04:50PM (13 children)
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 11, @08:24PM (12 children)
"Sooner or later, everyone comes to Babylon 5."
-- Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, The Gathering
You should watch it: better story than Deep Space 9. Just realize, it doesn't look as good as it could have, but Paramount screwed Strazinsky(?) around bad and Warner Bros. didn't have teh skillz to do it justice.
It's worth watching just for Londo and G'Kar.... and Vir (RIP)!
("Would you prefer to be conscious or unconscious during the mating? I would prefer conscious, but I don't know what your .. pleasure threshold is."
Ambassador G'Kar to Lyta Alexander, The Gathering)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday March 11, @09:24PM (11 children)
I've been rewatching it lately as well. Good stuff, and I'm not being as annoyed as I remember being last time when Sheridan starts angrily lecturing you about morality. Or did that start getting really bad midway through season 4? I don't think I actually finished the entire show since the plot is wrapped up in 4.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 11, @09:44PM (10 children)
Season 5 wraps up 'everything'.
Psi-corps, (Emperor)Londo and (Bodyguard)G'Kar, Garibaldi fails (again), Lennier and Vir, Rangers (:/), Vorlon telepaths, the Drahk......
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday March 11, @10:32PM (9 children)
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 12, @08:10PM (8 children)
The movies? Mostly. Some tie up a lot of loose ends.
Crusader? Mostly not.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday March 12, @08:59PM (6 children)
Yeah... I'm ashamed of myself for that and I hope I didn't seriously ruin the fun of these shows for anybody. But, hey, I hurt myself in the process by missing some great stuff. Now that I've partially extracted my head from my ass I can finally watch these shows and appreciate them for what they are!
Thanks for giving me the shoutout, I need to get B5 (and Farscape) (... and Sega) into my rotation.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 12, @09:49PM (4 children)
This is the order suggested for viewing the show:
In the beginning (movie)
Season 1 --> Season 4E8
Third Space (m)
Rest of Season 4
Season 5 -->E21
River of Souls (m)
Legend of the Rangers (m)
Rest of Season 5
A Call to Arms (m)
All Crusade Episodes
**I would leave til the end** :
The Gathering (movie) Otherwise it goes after "In the beginning" movie (The Gathering is the pilot movie and can confuse things and has spoilers for the show)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday March 12, @10:08PM (3 children)
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday March 13, @11:20PM (2 children)
Farscape is another show that 'looks cheap and bad', but has some well written episodes, story wise. Even the shows that look like they'll be boring or like 'Oh, a flash-back show...GOD!' end up being "Oh, nice!"
Just get past the "Ugh-uh-ly" and enjoy.
I'm hoping they do B5 over again with big budget, as long as they do it well. I'd miss the original actors (Londo, G'Kar, Sinclair, Garibaldi and Ivanova are just perfect... especially Londo coming off as a Dracula impersonator, lol. I LOVE imitating Londo: he has a specific Imperial and Transylvanian way of elucidating every. single. word.)
Have to love Zathras as well:
“Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people’s needs. Very sad life… Probably have very sad death. But, at least there is symmetry.”
“The One will die. The One will get better. Zathras is very good at guessing.”
“The One is the One. The Other One is also the One. The One is a Wholesome Number. The One Three is not so Wholesome, very unbalancing.”
And a VERY IMPORTANT ONE:
"Oh. Not the one, no."
"Not the one what?"
"Not the one. Won't talk. Can't talk. Not the one. They told me, they did. Zathras listens, he does, yes. Zathras listens and does what he's told."
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday March 14, @12:01AM (1 child)
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday March 14, @11:26PM
I JUST started, then got interrupted (probably by my son, lol).
I'll have to check it later.
Problem is, i don't want animated... i want 'real' (live action). A good 'reboot' will be appreciated.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 12, @09:55PM
Oh, and Farscape is fun and also really good at times.
It is like B5: you have to get over the initial "Wow...that looks horrible" response to get to the good stuff.
The thing about B5 is that the show was pretty well all thought out ahead, and things that are coming in Season 3-4 are fore-shadowed in Episode 1 and Season 1.
You have to pay attention to really get what is going on.
And a hearty "Zooty, zoot zoot! to you!"
Londo: What reasonable explanation is there for the slaughter of unarmed civilians?
G'Kar: Curious. We wondered the same thing when you invaded our world. The wheel turns, does it not, Ambassador?
Londo: We should have wiped out your kind when we had the chance.
G'Kar: What happened? Run out of small children to butcher?
Kosh: They are alone. They are a dying people. We should let them pass.
Sinclair: The Narn or the Centauri?
Kosh: Yes.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday March 14, @03:31AM
Crusade was intended as a new show, a new story, with some connection to Babylon 5. But it was cancelled during its first season, resulting in the a lot of its owm loose ends. It was never intended for tying off loose ends in the previous show.