US social media company X faced outages on Monday, impacting thousands of users globally, according to outage tracker Downdetector.

A Starlink outage disrupted U.S. Navy drone tests, highlighting the Pentagon’s growing dependence on SpaceX for critical military communications, according to internal documents reviewed by Reuters.

A widespread outage disrupted the social media platform Bluesky on Thursday, with users across the United States, the United Kingdom, and parts of Europe reporting issues affecting core features of the service.

Power outages were reported in northern Israel in the towns of Metula and Kiryat Shmona following a missile strike launched from Lebanon.

A payment system outage caused widespread disruption in Moscow on Friday, affecting shoppers, public transport, and businesses across the city.

A major outage involving self-driving cars operated by Baidu has disrupted traffic in the Chinese city of Wuhan, after a “system failure” caused dozens of robotaxis to suddenly stop in the middle of roads.

China’s artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek experienced its longest service outage since its rapid rise in early 2025, disrupting access to its chatbot for several hours on Monday.

Power has been restored in parts of Tehran and nearby Alborz Province following a temporary electricity interruption, according to Iran’s energy authorities.

Discord experienced an outage on Wednesday affecting tens of thousands of users, according to Downdetector, with many reporting issues on social media.