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IT Crash at Alaska Airlines: All Flights Grounded, Hundreds Canceled

IT Crash at Alaska Airlines: All Flights Grounded, Hundreds Canceled

Outage Timeline and Airline Response On Thursday afternoon (Oct. 23), Alaska Airlines reported a “significant IT outage” at its Seattle-area data center news.alaskaair.com. Soon after 3:30 pm Pacific, the airline imposed a system-wide ground stop on all Alaska and Horizon flights news.alaskaair.com. (Hawaiian Airlines flights were not halted.) By 11:30 pm PT the carrier announced the ground stop was lifted and flights were resuming news.alaskaair.com. In a midnight Pacific statement, Alaska said it was “working to get our operations back on track as quickly and safely as possible” news.alaskaair.com. Alaska urged passengers to check flight status before going to airports and noted it
24 October 2025
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Power Bill Bombshell: Synergy’s $40 Million Overcharge Scandal Shakes WA Customers

Power Bill Bombshell: Synergy’s $40 Million Overcharge Scandal Shakes WA Customers

Synergy’s $40 Million Billing Blunder – What Happened? Synergy, WA’s largest electricity retailer, has been caught overcharging customers by a staggering $40 million over 16 years abc.net.au. The revelation, made public on 10 October 2025, sent shockwaves through Western Australia. It turns out that nearly 174,000 customers who had closed their electricity accounts continued to unknowingly send payments to Synergy – payments the company accepted into those closed accounts instead of returning them abc.net.au. This went on from 2009 until now, unnoticed as a systemic issue. Synergy’s CEO Kurt Baker explained the root cause: a flaw in the billing system allowed automatic or mistaken payments to closed accounts to slip through abc.net.au.
10 October 2025
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Sam’s Club Shocker: Warehouse Giant Extends Sunday Hours – Members Thrilled as Shopping Windows Expand

Sam’s Club Shocker: Warehouse Giant Extends Sunday Hours – Members Thrilled as Shopping Windows Expand

Why the Change Now Sam’s Club says members “overwhelmingly” asked for longer weekend hours economictimes.indiatimes.com. In practice, extending Sunday hours helps spread out crowds and gives big-shopping members more flexibility. Plus members keep their 8–9 am head start, preserving that perk for a higher fee tier economictimes.indiatimes.com. The move also simplifies scheduling: most clubs will now run 8 am–8 pm every day (except a few local exceptions) economictimes.indiatimes.com. Walmart spokesman Steven Zapata confirmed to reporters that customer feedback prompted this shift economictimes.indiatimes.com. Analysts see this as a savvy member-driven strategy. A TechSpace2 analysis notes warehouse clubs are gaining share amid retail headwinds, with
10 October 2025
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Lithium Americas (LAC) Soars as US Govt Takes 5% Stake – Analysts Weigh In on EV Lithium Boom

Lithium Americas (LAC) Soars on U.S. ‘White Gold’ Stake – Latest News, Stock Rally & Expert Outlook

Latest News & Recent Developments (October 2025) U.S. Government Takes a Stake: The headline news propelling Lithium Americas in early October 2025 is the U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to take equity stakes in the company and its flagship project. On Oct 1, LAC announced a non-binding deal in principle with the DOE and GM to draw an initial $435 million from a previously approved federal loan lithiumamericas.com lithiumamericas.com. In return, the DOE will receive warrants for 5% of Lithium Americas’ common shares (exercisable at $0.01) and a 5% non-voting interest in the Thacker Pass JV on similar terms lithiumamericas.com. This effectively
6 October 2025
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Capital One Savers Cheated Out of Billions – $425M Settlement Payout Deadline Fast Approaching

Deadline Looms: Capital One’s $425 Million Settlement Could Put Cash Back in Your Pocket—Here’s What You Need to Know

In‑depth report In January 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau accused Capital One of luring savers with promises of “high interest” returns on its 360 Savings account while quietly freezing that rate at 0.3%. The bureau said the bank simultaneously rolled out a 360 Performance Savings account with the same terms and conditions but far better returns—up to 4.3% during the Federal Reserve’s rapid rate hikes eu.usatoday.com. According to the CFPB, Capital One did not notify existing customers about the higher‑earning product and kept them in the dark about the rate differential masslive.com. The bureau’s director, Rohit Chopra, alleged that the practice “cheated families out of billions
2 October 2025
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rockets 28 More Starlink Satellites – Ties Monthly Launch Record

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rockets 28 More Starlink Satellites – Ties Monthly Launch Record

Falcon 9 Launch Details and Milestones On Sept. 28, SpaceX executed a textbook launch from Vandenberg’s Space Launch Complex 4E. The Falcon 9 booster B1063, standing vertically on the pad, ignited and soared away at 7:04 p.m. PDT spaceflightnow.com. After clearing the pad, it flew on a south-easterly trajectory toward orbit. About 8½ minutes later the first stage used its grid fins and engines to steer back to Earth, touching down cleanly on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean spaceflightnow.com thenews.com.pk. The second stage continued upwards and deployed the 28 Starlink satellites roughly an
29 September 2025
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Apple’s Siri Gets ChatGPT-Like Brain – But You Won’t Get to Use It

Apple’s Siri Gets ChatGPT-Like Brain – But You Won’t Get to Use It

Apple’s new testing app Veritas represents a big step in Apple’s AI push macrumors.com appleinsider.com. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the app “essentially takes the still-in-progress technology from the new Siri and puts it in a form employees can test out more efficiently” au.investing.com appleinsider.com. Internally, Veritas is run on engineers’ iPhones to try features that Siri will eventually have. In practice it “behaves more like a chatbot,” says AppleInsider, referencing past chats and enabling longer back-and-forth conversations appleinsider.com. This lets Apple’s AI team rapidly prototype capabilities without constantly reworking Siri’s voice interface. What kind of new skills is Apple
28 September 2025
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Camera World Explodes: 48-Hour Blitz of New Cameras, Lenses, and Shocking Industry Moves (Sept 9–10, 2025)

Camera World Explodes: 48-Hour Blitz of New Cameras, Lenses, and Shocking Industry Moves (Sept 9–10, 2025)

Major Camera Announcements and Releases Nikon Enters Cinema: ZR Launch with RED DNA Nikon stole headlines by unveiling the Nikon ZR, its first-ever digital cinema camera, on September 10. Nikon teamed up with RED Digital Cinema to infuse the ZR with true Hollywood DNA – even co-branding it with RED’s logo. The ZR packs a 24.5MP full-frame sensor (apparently the same sensor as the Nikon Z6III) but repurposed for video, minus any mechanical shutter. It can record up to 6K/60p internally and introduces a new “R3D NE” RAW codec based on RED’s Redcode RAW format. This means ZR users can
10 September 2025
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Crypto Turmoil and Triumph: Ether’s Plunge, Trump’s $105M Token Bet & Stripe’s New Blockchain (Sep 5–6, 2025)

Crypto Turmoil and Triumph: Ether’s Plunge, Trump’s $105M Token Bet & Stripe’s New Blockchain (Sep 5–6, 2025)

Key Facts Market Whiplash Amid Fed Hopes and Fears Cryptocurrency prices saw sudden whiplash on Friday (Sep. 5) as macroeconomic news rattled traders. Early in the day, markets rallied on a soft U.S. jobs report – only 22,000 jobs added in August – which cemented bets that the Federal Reserve would finally cut interest rates coindesk.com. But euphoria was short-lived. Following the U.S. stock market open, crypto reversed course violently, led by a sharp plunge in Ethereum. Ether (ETH) collapsed nearly 4% within minutes, falling below a key bull-trend support coindesk.com. Bitcoin proved slightly more resilient, dipping about 2.5% to
6 September 2025
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Starlink Blitz, Spy Satellite Surprises & Space Station Boost: Space News Roundup (Sept 5–6, 2025)

Starlink Blitz, Spy Satellite Surprises & Space Station Boost: Space News Roundup (Sept 5–6, 2025)

Key Facts Government & Agency Developments NASA, ISS and International Partners NASA kept busy on multiple fronts. On Sept. 5, NASA announced it will broadcast the launch and docking of Roscosmos’s Progress 93 cargo ship next week, as the Russian freighter carries ~3 tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station nasa.gov. This Progress launch (scheduled for Sept. 11 from Baikonur) and its six-month stay at the ISS come as NASA also tests new ways to maintain the station’s orbit. Notably, a SpaceX Dragon CRS-33 cargo vehicle performed the first-ever reboost of the ISS using its own engines on
6 September 2025
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Internet Access Chaos: Blackouts, Crackdowns & Broadband Breakthroughs (Sept 5–6, 2025)

Internet Access Chaos: Blackouts, Crackdowns & Broadband Breakthroughs (Sept 5–6, 2025)

Major Outages and Internet Shutdowns In early September 2025, multiple outages and deliberate shutdowns disrupted internet access for millions across different regions. In the United States, a major Verizon network failure on August 30 demonstrated the fragility of even advanced telecom systems ts2.tech. Starting around midday (Eastern time), Verizon mobile users from California to New York suddenly lost service, with their phones stuck in emergency “SOS only” mode instead of connecting to any network ts2.tech. By mid-afternoon, outage reports spiked above 23,000 as people complained they couldn’t make calls or use mobile data ts2.tech. Verizon attributed the blackout to a
6 September 2025
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SpaceX Soars, Google Pays Billions, and More: Tech Bombshells of Sept 5–6, 2025

SpaceX Soars, Google Pays Billions, and More: Tech Bombshells of Sept 5–6, 2025

Key Facts Consumer Electronics and Gadget Highlights (IFA 2025) Major consumer tech brands kicked off September with a flurry of product news at IFA 2025 in Berlin – Europe’s biggest electronics expo which opened on Sept 5. Samsung grabbed headlines by unveiling its Galaxy S25 FE smartphone alongside a new Galaxy Tab S11. The Fan Edition phone and tablet are thinner and lighter than prior models, making only modest spec upgrades but coming at more affordable prices to broaden Samsung’s flagship lineup theverge.com theverge.com. Samsung’s push for value-oriented premium devices follows the strategy it used with earlier FE models to win
6 September 2025
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