https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/19/business/global-tech-outage
The outage appeared to affect card payments at Waitrose stores across Britain. Cashless customers, unable to buy their morning coffee and croissant, are taking to social media to complain.
Andrés R. Martínez
July 19, 2024, 4:49 a.m. ET19 minutes ago
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Andrés R. MartínezReporting from Seoul
A very tiny sample, but I now have access to my Windows computer after being one of the many people across the world that had been blocked from accessing key Microsoft programs that make their computers run. Hopefully more people will regain access soon.
Stephen Merelman
July 19, 2024, 4:45 a.m. ET23 minutes ago
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Stephen Merelman
In New York City, the Metropolitan Transit Authority said on its website that train and bus service was continuing as normal, but that some customer information systems were offline.
Liz Alderman
July 19, 2024, 4:40 a.m. ET28 minutes ago
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Liz AldermanReporting from Paris
In France, numerous media outlets reported problems. TF1 and Canal+, among the most watched, said in posts on X that they could not go on the air. Were all on stage, but theres a gigantic breakdown in the control room making it impossible to go live, Christophe Beaugrand-Guerrin, a TF1 presenter, wrote on X.
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