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• Telecom09/24/2026@TechDesk

  M7.8 Mindanao Earthquake Hits PLDT and Smart Networks

  General Santos, Soccsksargen, 9500, PhilippinesPLDT

  

  Starts 06/07/2026 11:37PM UTCCONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins83% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 83%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better117 days agoThe USGS^[5] event page (reference 1) times the M7.8 main shock at 2026-06-07 23:37:41 UTC (07:37 on 8 June in Manila); PLDT's^[1] first advisory, dated 'June 8, 2026, 8 p.m.', reports teams mobilised 'following the recent earthquake'.

  A magnitude 7.8 quake off southern Mindanao cut power to PLDT and Smart sites around General Santos; by 10 June Smart had service back in 22 of 24 affected provinces, with Starlink links filling gaps.

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• Computing09/24/2026@TechDesk

  Winter Storm Knocks Out Oracle Data Center Running TikTok's US App

  2300, Oracle Way, Lakeshore, Austin, Travis County, Texas, 78741, United StatesOracle

  

  01/25/2026 - 02/01/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better250 days agoThe Register^[3]: "Users began reporting problems ... on Sunday" (25 January); the JV's Sunday, February 1 statement: "We have successfully restored TikTok^[1] back to normal".

  A weather power outage at a primary US data centre operated by Oracle hit tens of thousands of servers, leaving TikTok's US app buggy for a week just after the joint venture took over.

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• Telecom09/24/2026@TechDesk

  Nationwide Verizon Outage Strands Customers in SOS Mode for 10 Hours

  1095 6th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan, New York, NY 10036, United StatesVerizon

  

  Starts 01/14/2026 5:00PM UTCCONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins87% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 87%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better261 days agoVerizon's^[1] update page reads 'As of 10:15 PM ET, the outage has been resolved' (14 January); ABC News^[2] quotes Downdetector that customers 'began noticing interrupted service around noon Eastern time on Wednesday'.

  A software issue took down Verizon Wireless across the US for about ten hours, from around noon until 10:15 PM ET, with Downdetector counting more than 178,000 affected at the peak; Verizon gave affected customers a $20 credit.

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• Telecom09/24/2026@TechDesk

  Verizon Wireless Outage Leaves Phones in SOS Mode

  1095 6th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan, New York, NY 10036, United StatesVerizon

  

  Starts 08/30/2025 4:00PM UTCCONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.1 years agoVerizon's^[1] network president wrote on 31 August that 'yesterday afternoon and evening' customers lost service; CBS dates the first reports 'shortly after 12 p.m. ET on Saturday' and quotes Verizon that 'by midnight' service was fully restored.

  A software issue knocked Verizon Wireless customers from California to Florida into SOS mode for much of Saturday afternoon, with Downdetector reports peaking near 23,000 before service was restored by midnight.

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