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With the terrible flight issues with Southwest Airlines during the recent holidays in the rearview mirror, there now has been another airline shutdown, which the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is calling an “outage.”  An overnight computer outage late on 10 January 2023 at the FAA lead to widespread flight delays and disruptions which is now cascading into hundreds of flight delays.  This just like a few weeks ago.[1] 

The FAA said the “outage” was in the Notice to Air Missions system,

A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network had severely disrupted services at a wide range of US companies beginning on 07 December 2021.  Amazon and some other services including Prime Video and Alexa were affected by computer problems.   Thousands of users in the United States have reported problems on the outage tracking website Downdetector.  There are reports in the US that customers of McDonald's, Netflix, Disney, and several other AWS clients, are had issues too.

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Facebook has been having its share of problems.  From a global outage to a Whistleblower gone public with claims that Instagram causes youth-based psychological issues, the social media giant is now on the defensive.  US Congress is currently taking another, yet closer, look at oversight of social media platforms. 

Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are finally back in operation after a worldwide outage hit the services and the businesses and people who rely on its platforms.  Fac