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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Facebook's services and work tools return online after suffering a global outage for over six hours — Update: 5:55 p.m. ET: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are slowly but surely coming back up after more than 6 hours of being down. Your mileage may vary for now …
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| Santosh Janardhan / Facebook Engineering: |
Facebook says configuration changes on its backbone routers disrupted network traffic between its data centers, causing an outage across its platforms — To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today's outage across our platforms.
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| Celso Martinho / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare says prior to Facebook's outage, Facebook issued several BGP updates, causing DNS resolution errors that knocked Facebook off the web — “Facebook can't be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. — Today at 15:51 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled … | New York Times: |
Facebook employees and an internal memo say that, several hours into the incident, Facebook's security experts were still trying to identify the root issue — When apps used by billions of people worldwide blinked out, lives were disrupted, businesses were cut off from customers …
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| Amy Cheng / Washington Post: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Review of the now-released Windows 11: improved modern UI and sounds, but many promised features like Android apps are missing and new taskbar is a step back — Microsoft's new OS is a work in progress — Microsoft wants Windows 11 to feel familiar. While the company has attempted drastic changes …
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| Reuters: |
Frances Haugen's prepared Senate testimony: Facebook putting profits over safety has resulted in a system that amplifies division, extremism, and polarization — Former Facebook (FB.O) employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen will urge the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to regulate the social media giant … | Scott Pelley / CBS News: |
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Europol announces the arrest of two alleged ransomware gang members in Ukraine, with help from US and French authorities, as some think they may belong to REvil — Two members of a ransomware gang were arrested in Ukraine following a joint international law enforcement operation.
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| Scott Carpenter / Bloomberg: |
Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth fell ~$7B amid whistleblower exposé and Facebook outages; Facebook stock dropped ~5% Monday and is down ~15% since mid-Sept. — - CEO drops to No. 5 on list of world's richest, below Gates — Stock slide knocks his net worth down to $120.9 billion
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Android 12 review: big design improvements led by Material You, but the new widgets will need dev support to shine; Pixel phones get the update in a few weeks — There are a just a few noteworthy features in this design-focused update — The most exciting thing about a big Android update …
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Filing: Circle, which backs the USDC stablecoin, received a subpoena in July from the SEC for documents on “our holdings, customer programs, and operations” — Circle Financial is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC), the payments company disclosed Monday.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Filing: Syniverse, which routes texts for AT&T, Verizon, and others, says hackers had access to its databases and customer logins for 5 years; logins were reset — Syniverse handles billions of text messages a year, and hackers had unauthorized access to its system for years.
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Tweets: @ronwyden, @jason_koebler, @lorenzofb, @ericgarland, and @motherboard
| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Review of Apple's A15 shows big efficiency gains and adequate speed improvements, which range from 2.5% to 37% over A14 depending on the type of workload — A few weeks ago, we've seen Apple announce their newest iPhone 13 series devices, a set of phones being powered by the newest Apple A15 SoC.
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Filing: Google's DeepMind reported £826M revenue in 2020, up 3x over the year, and £46M pre-tax profits, its first-ever profit — London-based group says its research is increasingly being embedded in commercial products — Google's UK artificial intelligence unit DeepMind …
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