Written 2026-10-28 around 15:00 UTC, about six hours after the crash. The toll and the cause are both still moving. Everything below is from reporting I read...
Spain: High-speed train crash kills dozens, rescue operations ongoing
Two high-speed trains carrying hundreds of passengers collided south of Madrid. Spain's transport minister said one of the trains was told to continue its journey despite a "red signal" being in effect. Follow DW.
@citrix Virtual Lap | Sergio Perez at the Hungarian Grand Prix
What Took the Internet Offline in Q3 2026
An examination of global Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare Radar during the third quarter of 2026. This review analyzes how power failures, natural disasters, and government shutdowns impacted network connectivity and traffic.
28 April 2025 Blackout
The final report of the Expert Panel on the 28 April 2025 blackout in continental Spain and Portugal identifies the causes of the blackout and outlines recommendations to strengthen the resilience of Europe’s interconnected electricity system. It was prepared by a technical Expert Panel of 49 members, including representatives from Transmission System Operators (TSOs), Regional Coordination Centres (RCCs), ACER and National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs), and was chaired by experts from two unaffected TSOs.
28 April 2025 Blackout
The final report of the Expert Panel on the 28 April 2025 blackout in continental Spain and Portugal identifies the causes of the blackout and outlines recommendations to strengthen the resilience of Europe’s interconnected electricity system. It was prepared by a technical Expert Panel of 49 members, including representatives from Transmission System Operators (TSOs), Regional Coordination Centres (RCCs), ACER and National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs), and was chaired by experts from two unaffected TSOs.
How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today
Today at 10:30UTC, the Internet had a small heart attack. A small company in Northern Pennsylvania became a preferred path of many Internet routes through Verizon (AS701), a major Internet transit provider.
rip.so :: the digital graveyard
A memorial to the messengers, social networks, browsers and websites the internet forgot.
The Cyber Resilience Act: A Five Alarm Fire
On October 21, 2016, CNN’s website was knocked offline. So was the BBC and Guardian’s. Amazon, Etsy and Shopify too, along with Quora, Reddit, and Twitter – among others. Huge swaths of the internet were taken down by a series of attacks on the DNS provider Dyn. These Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were
@citrix Virtual Lap: Max Verstappen Laps The RB16B At The Spanish Grand Prix
Event Recap: Toronto 2026
Overlooking Sankofa Square in downtown Toronto, a group of journalists and hackers gathered on October 5th to share ideas and techniques to navigate our new online world of AI chatbot mediation and fragmented social media. Being in Canada, this third edition of Protocols for Publishers had a different flavour to
AI #182: Pause For Reflection
This was a week of quiet aftermath, an opportunity to process recent events and start to figure out the path forward.
Archived Fact-Checked Media — MediaVault
“If confirmed, this is telling: Russian data centres get hit, and online activity around AfD suddenly plummets. 📉 So much talk about German patriotism… then the connection from Russia goes down. 🤔🇷🇺 https://t.co/hEPJkIVtA3”
Michael Bacarella on Twitter / X
Everyone’s heard of how awesome Jane Street is. Fewer people have heard about the times something stupid nearly put it out of business and it was saved by grit and dumb luck.Here's a story about how the NYC datacenter was almost destroyed by a false smoke alarm.— Michael Bacarella (@mbacarella) November 11, 2026
After strikes on Yandex data centers, social media users began talking about the disappearance of AfD and MAGA bots. | Межа
Three Yandex data centers stopped operating after strikes, and the company’s network traffic plunged. The data do not confirm claims that political bot activity also fell.
Elderly woman dies after two-hour wait for Victorian ambulance
The Ambulance Victoria service says it was under a period of significant demand when it received a Triple Zero call alerting it to the emergency.