New York's Attorney General Wants To Hear From You About the AT&T Outage

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New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, announced on Thursday that she’s opened an investigation into the recent AT&T outage that left customers across the country without service. And if you live in the state of New York, James would like to hear from you.

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AT&T says its nationwide cellular outage was caused by a software update, not a cyberattack

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AT&T says an "initial review" indicates the outage that left many Americans without service was caused by a software update.

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AT&T Says Outage Wasn't Cyberattack Despite Widespread Conspiracy Theories Online

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AT&T issued a statement Thursday night to explain that the telecom’s widespread network outage earlier in the day wasn’t caused by a cyberattack.

FBI and Homeland Security are looking into the AT&T cellular outage, White House says

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National security spokesman John Kirby said the AT&T cellular outage is being looked into.

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Twitter appeared to suffer a new glitch during the Met Gala, logging out desktop users seemingly at random

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The Twitter logo, and Vogue editor Anna Wintour with Billy Nighy at the Met Gala.

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Dish Network confirms 'cybersecurity incident' caused multi-day outage of websites, customer service systems

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Twitter suffered an outage during Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime show — its 2nd in a week — despite Elon Musk's directive to maximize stability

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Elon Musk's Twitter profile, and Rihanna performing at Super Bowl LVII.

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Twitter went down because an employee accidentally deleted data, and there was nobody left on the team responsible due to Elon Musk's cuts, report says

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Twitter suffered a "massive outage" on Wednesday.

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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey mocked new owner Elon Musk's company over a major outage, saying it used to be where people talked 'when anything went down'

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Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk, former and current Twitter CEOs.

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Google is in a weird place right now

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