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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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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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| 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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| 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.
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| 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 …
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Tweets: @truenorthfleet, @elizabeth, and @ycombinator
| CNBC: |
Instacart president Carolyn Everson says she will step down at the end of the year, less than four months after joining the company — - Another high-profile Instacart executive is leaving the company. — Carolyn Everson announced Friday she will step down as president at the end of the year.
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| Angelica Mari / ZDNet: |
Brazil's Ministry of Health suffers a major ransomware attack, blocking access to millions of COVID-19 digital vaccination certificates and 50TB of data — Hackers claimed to have copied and deleted 50 TB worth of data from internal systems. — Websites under Brazil's Ministry of Health … | 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.
Tweets: @ceciliakang, @jkosseff, and @davidclinchnews
| 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 — Written by Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) and edited by @linuxct, Kuba Wojciechowski (@Za_Raczke), and Al Sutton (@alsutton).
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| 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 …
Tweets: @benbrodydc, @appfairness, @adamkovac, and @wexler
| 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 — Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars has disclosed that unknown attackers have stolen research and development information after hacking some of its servers.
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Volvo Cars Global Media …, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Slashdot, DataBreaches.net, Wall Street Journal, Jalopnik, ZDNet, Security Affairs, The Record, Reuters, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @cryptoron and @campuscodi
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the impact of supercomputers on chess, as world champion Magnus Carlsen, who boasts of being the least influenced by a computer, wins another title — Chess engines were supposed to make classical chess more predictable. Instead, they made the most inventive player of all time more creative.
Tweets: @chesscom, @clutchplay, @jamescrabtree, and @hartmannchess
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