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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.
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| 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 …
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| Filippo Valsorda / Filippo.io: |
How the role of open-source maintainers could be professionalized, as the maintainer who fixed the log4j zero-day 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.| Richa Naidu / Reuters: |
Rescuers confirm at least six workers died in an Amazon warehouse hit by tornadoes in Illinois as search continues for more trapped workers — Six Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) workers were confirmed dead on Saturday after a series of tornadoes roared through a warehouse near St. Louis …
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| 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.
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Tweets: @mishaalrahman, @mistydemeo, @yifanlu, @xlerb, @ronamadeo, @liliputingnews, @killedbygoogle, and @journeydan. Thanks:@mishaalrahman
| 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 former Stripe executive Lachy Groom — Jin Stedge studied aerospace engineering at MIT, but after she found herself at Scotty Labs, an SRI International spin-out focused on autonomous driving …
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Tweets: @truenorthfleet, @elizabeth, and @ycombinator
| Gertrude Chavez-dreyfuss / Reuters: |
Assembly, a new blockchain under the IOTA network focused on DeFi, NFTs, and crypto game development, raises $100M and plans to launch its token next year — Some of the largest Asian venture capital firms and crypto hedge funds will invest $100 million to further develop applications … | Rebecca Torrence / FierceHealthcare: |
Reveleer, which lets US government-sponsored health care payers analyze member and provider data, raises $65M led by Oak HC/FT — Reveleer, a cloud-based platform helping payers analyze member and provider data, has landed $65 million in fresh capital. — The company allows government … Sponsor Posts
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