Between September 2-3, 2026, nine Asia-Pacific countries and Mexico were flagged as having internet outages by a monitoring system, but the alert was false. Three other independent measurements showed networks remained operational, routing announcements continued, and user traffic persisted—only probe response rates dropped, indicating a measurement artifact rather than actual disconnection.
Philippine senators voted 13-1 to overturn a July 6 ruling, with six senators including Robinhood Padilla abstaining. The vote concerned a VP trial case, with Senator Escudero casting the sole negative vote.