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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Facebook's services are returning 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, but the services are in the process of coming back to life.
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| Tom Strickx / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare says Facebook appears to be reconnected to the internet with DNS working again, but services will take more time to be fully restored — “Facebook can't be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. — Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled …
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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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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
As WSJ's Facebook Files suggest, Facebook seems to be in a slow, steady decline, evidenced by frenetic pivots, executive paranoia, and talent attrition — A trove of leaked documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, hints at a company whose best days are behind it.
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Android 12 review: big design improvements led by Material You, but the new widgets will need dev support to shine; Pixel phones get the update in a few weeks — There are a just a few noteworthy features in this design-focused update — The most exciting thing about a big Android update … | 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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| 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.| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Amazon says Prime members can send gifts with a phone number or email address, no physical address required, rolling out to mobile users in the continental US — There's currently no way to opt out of the new feature — Amazon is launching a new gifting feature today that will allow subscribers …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Apple starts letting users report scammy apps from their App Store listings through its Report a Problem button — The ‘Report a Problem’ button is back — One month ago, we laid out a list of eight obvious things Apple could do to prove it puts App Store users ahead of profits.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
How Siri, launched a decade ago today, fell behind Google Assistant, Alexa, and others, likely due to management dysfunction, Apple's walled garden, and more — Ten years ago today, Apple's digital assistant Siri was revealed with the promise that the iPhone maker had finally figured it all out.| Will Knight / Wired: |
Clearview CEO says it has collected over 10B images from across the web and is building ways for police to find people, including deblurring and mask removal — In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance.| 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 … | Harrison Weber / dot.LA: |
In a blow to online streaming services, over 50,000 backstage movie and TV workers vote to authorize a strike after their union's demands were not met — Ratcheting up the stakes in an already tense labor battle, members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) …
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