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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 …
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| 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: |
WhatsApp's global popularity, especially in developing countries, made its outage even more acute, impacting services in Lebanon, India, Brazil, and Mexico — When WhatsApp and other Facebook-owned apps went dark around 11:40 a.m. Eastern time on Monday, online tracker Downdetector received some 14 million reports of the outage.
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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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| 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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Windows Experience Blog, Windows Blog, Tom's Hardware, CRN, CNET, Ars Technica, Microsoft Security Blog, Windows Central, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @satyanadella, @thurrott, @panos_panay, and @tomwarren
| 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 …
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| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
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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, @karlbode, @lorenzofb, and @ericgarland
| Sohini Podder / Reuters: |
Filing: GitLab is looking to raise as much as $624M in its US IPO, targeting a valuation of ~$9B; GitLab was valued at $6B in a January secondary share sale — GitLab Inc, a coding platform backed by the likes of ICONIQ Capital and Khosla Ventures, is looking to raise as much as $624 million through …
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GlobeNewswire News Room, Benzinga, and Bloomberg
| 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.| Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Rent the Runway, whose online marketplace offers subscription fashion rentals, files for IPO and reports loss of $84.7M on revenue of $80.2M in H1 2021 — - Rent the Runway filed for an initial public offering on Monday and revealed its subscriber base tumbled during the Covid pandemic but has since started to grow again.| The Information: |
Sources: Andreessen Horowitz is leading a ~$150M Series B for Sky Mavis, developer of NFT game Axie Infinity, at a valuation near $3B — Sky Mavis, the developer of the popular crypto-based online game Axie Infinity, is raising approximately $150 million in Series B funding …
Tweets: @kateclarktweets and @amir
| Adam Ismail / Jalopnik: |
Experts say automakers use chips with older process nodes because they need long lead times for testing, which is at odds with how chipmakers prefer to operate — It's a classic case of two industries that have conflicting needs but still have to work together. — Alerts
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