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# Outages

Jackery's Explorer 1000 V2 is our top pick for power outages at $519

The Jackery Explorer 1000 V2 is one of our favorite off-grid power units. Combining a 1070Wh battery, 1500W output, and fast charging, we called it "one of the best portable power stations around, a solid choice and one…

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TechRadar ·2 mo. ago

Home battery installations have hit a new high — and the powerful new Base Core promises to save you money and keep your home powered during outages

Base Power raises funds to roll out a new Base Core modelIt protects against power outages and gives back to the gridThe battery is available to purchase in Texas and Illinois initially What with plug-in home solar…

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Electrek ·3 mo. ago

Which portable power station is right for you? Bluetti's battery guide breaks it down

Power outages caused by severe storms can often last for hours, or days – and extreme heat just compounds the issue, making it harder to keep food and medicine safe when you need it.

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TechRadar ·4 mo. ago

Not prepared for cloud outages? You should be

Today’s global economy is deeply dependent on cloud services – the EU estimates that nearly 53% of its businesses use paid cloud services of some kind, with some countries reaching nearly 80%.

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TechRadar ·4 mo. ago

Your cloud vendors are shipping AI-generated code. More outages are coming.

Q4 2025 was a brutal quarter to be an enterprise IT leader. In October alone, AWS suffered a 15-hour DNS cascading failure that took down 141 services and impacted over 3,500 companies across 60 countries — Snapchat,…

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TechRadar ·7 mo. ago

Amazon is making even senior engineers get code signed off following multiple recent outages

Amazon and AWS have had a few high-profile incidents recently, caused by dodgy code Mandatory meeting responded to "Gen-AI assisted changes" Senior human oversight now required for code changes Amazon has reportedly…

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TechRadar ·8 mo. ago

The year of the AI agents? More outages? Here’s what lies ahead for IT teams in 2026

From AWS to Cloudflare, 2025 was a year full of major outages and cyberattacks. In particular, these have exposed a reliance on a select few cloud providers and vulnerabilities in complex IT estates.

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TechRadar ·last yr.

ChatGPT subscribers are getting frustrated with Sora restrictions and OpenAI outages – and I can't blame them

OpenAI Sora's video generation is still unavailable for new accounts The restrictions follow a week of regular outages affecting all ChatGPT users OpenAI says it's currently "experiencing heavy traffic" ChatGPT is…