Daily Archives: August 4, 2015

First Solar Defends Plans To Make Cheaper, Better Solar Panels

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First Solar executives discussed their second quarter earnings on Tuesday (it posted a profit instead of losses this time), and analysts were keen to know if the company can execute a plan to produce more efficient and cheaper solar panels while still meeting demand during what will be a busy year of solar power project construction before a key tax credit is set to end.

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AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon all having network problems in southeastern US

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If you live in the southeastern US and you’re wondering what’s going on with your cell service right now, know that you’re not the only one dealing with issues.

Several reports are coming in that show that all four major US carriers are experiencing outages across the southeastern US. AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon have all acknowledged the issues either in statements or on social media. AT&T told Re/code that it’s “working as quickly as possible to restore service,” and Verizon says that its engineers are working to address connectivity issues in portions of Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Exactly what’s causing the problems isn’t known, but a Sprint rep has said that a “local exchange provider” could be behind the issues. Whatever is happening, hopefully all four operators can get it figured out and taken care of soon, because this is a big outage that’s affecting the largest four US carriers in a large chunk of the US.

If you’re located in the southeastern US, are you having any issues with your service? Or are you lucky enough to have avoided the outage?

Sources: Re/code, Down Detector: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon

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DDOS Attack Temporarily Shuts Down International ‘DOTA 2’ Tournament

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The International DOTA 2 tournament is underway, but a reported DDOS attack forced Valve to suspend the matches for several hours. The tournament has had several Internet-related problems since it began, but commentators confirmed that a DDOS attack was indeed to blame for today’s outage. It’s a funny thing that even an official Valve tournament, with all the top players in the world on the same stage, still needs to deal with all the same outage problems that average gamers have to deal with all the time. There is no LAN mode for DOTA 2.

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