Ticker: Sony PlayStation Network outage enrages gamers around the world
A major outage of Sony’s PlayStation Network on Saturday left tens of thousands of gamers unable to access online services, stores and multimedia apps.
“We are aware some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN,” PlayStation said on its social media platforms.
Reports of connectivity issues spread quickly across social media, with users frustrated by error messages and login failures.
According to the Downdetector outage tracking site, users started to report issues with PSN late Friday.
Shortly after, Sony responded to users’ concerns, confirming the problems without providing details on the possible cause of the outage.
The PlayStation support webpage said “some services are experiencing issues,” including its account management and gaming and social services, as well as PlayStation Video, PlayStation Store and PlayStation Direct.
Last October the PlayStation network was down for several hours.
Trump pauses tariffs on millions of low-value packages from China
President Donald Trump has paused the imposition of tariffs on small-value packages arriving from China. It’s apparently to give federal agencies time to sort out how to process millions of such shipments that have come through the U.S. border every day without paying taxes.
The executive order, dated Wednesday, didn’t say when the pause would end but said it would cease when the Department of Commerce could put in place “adequate systems” to “fully and expediently process and collect tariff revenue.” Earlier this week, the U.S. Postal Service had announced it would not accept parcels from mainland China and Hong Kong, only to reverse the decision the next day.
