Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors
Techmeme
December 11, 2021, 9:25 PM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter

Top News

CNBC:
AWS blames its hours-long Tuesday outage on network devices overloading, plans to revamp its status page to address complaints about updates and support cases  —  - A major Amazon Web Services outage on Tuesday started after network devices got overloaded, the company said on Friday.
LunaSec Blog:
A vulnerability in the Apache log4j Java logging library allows for remote code execution, impacting Steam, iCloud, Minecraft, and other services  —  A few hours ago, a -day exploit in the popular Java logging library, log4j, was tweeted along with a POC posted on GitHub that results …
More: Wired, Xe's Blog, Associated Press, VMware, VentureBeat, nvd.nist.gov, Ars Technica, Ariadne's Space, The Verge, VICE, Lawfare, CISA, CERT NZ, Red Hat Customer Portal, The Cloudflare Blog, Engadget, MobileSyrup, HackRead, TechSpot, Mashable, InfoQ, Check Point Software, Tech Xplore, Slashdot, Security Boulevard, Application Security …, The Hacker News, Rumble Network Discovery, The Cloudflare Blog, Gist, reddit, Cybereason I Cybersecurity …, iTnews, Sonatype Blog, Randori, Dark Reading, XDA Developers, TechRadar, PCMag, The Hill, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Huntress Blog, Search Engine Journal, Cisco Talos Intelligence Group, BleepingComputer, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, Protocol, Malwarebytes Labs, Tom's Guide, AppleInsider, BleepingComputer, The Register, Help Net Security, cybernews.com, TechCrunch, Threatpost, Michael Tsai, Security Affairs, GitHub, and Wynncraft Forums
Tweets: @yazicivo, @malwaretechblog, @filosottile, @filosottile, @_staticflow_, @nsa_csdirector, @secbro1, @kikta, @campuscodi, @bjorklundvictor, @laughing_mantis, @eastdakota, @swiftonsecurity, @gossithedog, @cyb3rops, @tarah, @matthew_d_green, @swagitda_, @malwarebytes, @caseyjohnellis, @gossithedog, @runasand, @filosottile, @dangillmor, @mcafee, @adamwathan, @gossithedog, @patio11, @k8em0, @randoriattack, @certnz, @cybernigma, @briannawu, @_noid_, @hackinglz, @gossithedog, @invalidname, @uscert_gov, @weldpond, @c_c_krebs, @gossithedog, @lunasecio, @eastdakota, @jacobian, @swiftonsecurity, @sans_isc, @erratarob, @malwarejake, @erratarob, @tgockel, @eastdakota, @eastdakota, @campuscodi, @gossithedog, @gossithedog, @getajobmike, @malwarebytes, @badlionclient, @gossithedog, @gossithedog, @gossithedog, @reybango, @campuscodi, and @campuscodi
Filippo Valsorda / Filippo.io:
How to professionalize the role of Open Source maintainers as the maintainer who fixed the log4j vulnerability says he works on the project in his spare time  —  Open Source software runs the Internet, and by extension the economy.  This is an undisputed fact about reality in 2021.
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record:
The Apache Software Foundation releases a security fix for log4j zero-day, which was discovered during a bug bounty engagement against Minecraft servers  —  The Apache Software Foundation has released an emergency security update today to patch a zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a Java library that provides logging capabilities.
New York Times:
Investigation: a site providing directions on how to die is linked to at least ~45 suicides, as Google and Bing refuse to remove it absent a legal requirement  —  It has the trappings of popular social media, a young audience and explicit content on suicide that other sites don't allow.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Narendra Modi's Twitter account was briefly compromised, tweeting that India had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and linking to a sketchy website  —  The Twitter account of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “briefly compromised” on Sunday, his office said.
Reuters:
Rescuers confirm at least six workers died in an Amazon warehouse hit by tornadoes in Illinois as search continues for more trapped workers  —  At least two workers were confirmed dead Saturday as rescuers searched the rubble of an Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) warehouse near St. Louis that collapsed …
Mishaal Rahman:
How a bug in Android 10 and above, triggered by the user not being logged in to the Microsoft Teams app, could prevent 911 calls  —  On the 29th of November, Reddit user KitchenPicture 5849 posted a harrowing story about how their Pixel phone failed to connect to emergency services.
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Congressional hearings with tech CEOs and execs in the past few years have yielded no new laws amid partisan divides over issues like privacy and misinformation  —  Holding a hearing that humbles the most powerful business executives in the world is much easier than legislating.
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
TrueNorth, a logistics service for independent truckers, raises a $50M Series B led by the Altman brothers and Lachy Groom, bringing its total funding to $61.8M  —  Jin Stedge studied aerospace engineering at MIT, but after she found herself at Scotty Labs, an SRI International spin-out focused …
Ben Brody / Protocol:
Profile of the Coalition for App Fairness, a group launched by Epic, Spotify, Tile, Match Group, and others to fight Google and Apple's app store policies  —  When Kirsten Daru took a job as general counsel at Tile, she hadn't thought she'd still be using her background in antitrust …

Sponsor Posts

Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning  —  SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds.  Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference  —  Stop preparing for agents.  Start running them.  100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM  —  This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
IDrive:
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI  —  L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.
Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Big Technology Podcast:
 GPT-6 & OpenAI's Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer's Scandalous Legacy
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Hard Fork:
 The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR's Ajeya Cotra
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
 Data Centers, Elon Musk, and the New Politics of Tech, with David Weigel
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Sources:
 Sam Altman on OpenAI's next model and the AI backlash
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
 Brian Singerman from GPx
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
 Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
Add your podcast here
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:25 PM ET, December 11, 2021.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

From Mediagazer

CBS News:
A US federal judge allows the Pentagon to fire three Stars and Stripes journalists, ruling the government likely did not violate their First Amendment rights

Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
SCOTUS rules via an emergency order that political parties are entitled to the same low-cost TV ad rates as candidates, giving an advantage to Republicans

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon is launching a FAST channel, The Don Lemon Channel, with Swerve TV; it will also be available on linear TV

More News

Earlier Picks

Queenie Wong / CNET:
Meta struggles with harassment in VR, where solutions like letting users record everything need to be balanced with privacy and headsets' storage and power
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Volvo Cars discloses a security breach that led to R&D data theft and could impact the company's operations; the Snatch ransomware gang claims responsibility
CNBC:
Instacart president Carolyn Everson says she will step down at the end of the year, less than four months after joining the company
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Meta launches new creator tools and says it is testing live chat support for some English-speaking users globally who are locked out of their accounts
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter