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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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| 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
| 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
| 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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Tweets: @mishaalrahman, @mistydemeo, @yifanlu, @ronamadeo, @liliputingnews, @killedbygoogle, and @journeydan. Thanks:@mishaalrahman
| Reuters: |
At least two workers were confirmed dead at an Amazon warehouse hit by tornadoes in Illinois as rescuers search for other 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 …
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| 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 … | 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 … | 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, @wexler, and @adamkovac
| 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 — Sydney Smith had dealt with lewd, sexist remarks for more than a month while playing the Echo VR video game.
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