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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Facebook's services and work tools return 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 …
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| Santosh Janardhan / Facebook Engineering: |
Facebook says configuration changes on its backbone routers disrupted network traffic between its data centers, causing an outage across its platforms — To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today's outage across our platforms.
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| Celso Martinho / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare says prior to Facebook's outage, Facebook issued several BGP updates, causing DNS resolution errors that knocked Facebook off the web — “Facebook can't be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. — Today at 15:51 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled …
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| New York Times: |
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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| Amy Cheng / Washington Post: |
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| 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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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Pro 8 review: new modern look, 120Hz display, and improved stylus, but it is expensive, accessories aren't included, and ports are limited — This is the best Surface Pro we've seen in years — I've been waiting for the Surface Pro 8. — Microsoft has been selling …
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| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio review: gorgeous, unique design, 120Hz display, good battery life, and Thunderbolt 4, but heavy and pricey with few ports — It's not cheap, but this convertible laptop is an artist's dream. — Alerts — Even among 2-in-1s, Microsoft's Surface Book was kind of a unicorn.
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| YouTube: |
Livestream of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee — Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies before Senate Commerce Committee https://www.c-span.org/video/? 515042-...
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| Keith Zubrow / CBS News: |
60 Minutes publishes the eight SEC complaints filed by Frances Haugen against Facebook, covering 2020 election, Jan. 6 riots, teen mental health, and more — For the first time, read the whistleblower's complaints to the SEC that led to 60 Minutes' report on Facebook.
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| Scott Pelley / CBS News: |
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| Scott Carpenter / Bloomberg: |
Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth fell ~$7B amid whistleblower exposé and Facebook outages; Facebook stock dropped ~5% Monday and is down ~15% since mid-Sept. — - CEO drops to No. 5 on list of world's richest, below Gates — Stock slide knocks his net worth down to $120.9 billion
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Filing: Circle, which backs the USDC stablecoin, received a subpoena in July from the SEC for documents on “our holdings, customer programs, and operations” — Circle Financial is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC), the payments company disclosed Monday.
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Review of Apple's A15 shows big efficiency gains and adequate speed improvements, which range from 2.5% to 37% over A14 depending on the type of workload — A few weeks ago, we've seen Apple announce their newest iPhone 13 series devices, a set of phones being powered by the newest Apple A15 SoC.
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Tweets: @catfish_man, @t3mporarybl1p, @aapltree, and @liliputingnews
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Europol announces the arrest of two alleged ransomware gang members in Ukraine, with help from US and French authorities, as some think they may belong to REvil — Two members of a ransomware gang were arrested in Ukraine following a joint international law enforcement operation.
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Tweets: @europol, @gossithedog, @christopherjm, @gossithedog, and @shanvav
| Rachel Phua / DealStreetAsia: |
Orca Security, which provides tools for protecting cloud-based assets, extends Series C to $550M led by Temasek at a $1.8B valuation, up from $1.2B in March — Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings has led a $550 million extended Series C round for Los Angeles-based Orca Security …
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| The Information: |
Sky Mavis, developer of NFT game Axie Infinity, raises ~$150M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, sources say at a nearly $3B valuation — Sky Mavis, the developer of the popular crypto-based online game Axie Infinity, is raising approximately $150 million in Series B funding …
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Tweets: @axieinfinity, @ldrogen, and @jeffjohnroberts
| Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: |
Neural Magic, which aims to boost AI inferencing speeds on off-the-shelf processors, raises $30M Series A led by NEA — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! — Neural Magic, a company that offers software … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Chile-based Buk, which offers HR management tools for Latin American companies, raises $50M Series A at a $417M valuation, its first outside funding — Chile's Buk, which has developed a human resources management platform for Latin American companies, announced today that it has raised $50 million … | Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Filing: Google's DeepMind reported £826M revenue in 2020, up 3x over the year, and £46M pre-tax profits, its first-ever profit — London-based group says its research is increasingly being embedded in commercial products — Google's UK artificial intelligence unit DeepMind … | Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Adaptive Shield, which helps secure SaaS apps to avoid data breaches, raises $30M Series A led by Insight Partners — Adaptive Shield, a Tel Aviv-based startup that automates the security of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, has secured $30 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners.| Bloomberg: |
A look at cryptocurrency exchange Suex, which appears to be operating in Moscow and is accused of laundering ransomware payments by the US Treasury Department — - Suex is first digital currency exchange sanctioned by U.S. — Platforms can allow cyber gangs to launder illicit proceeds
Tweets: @hkanji
| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
Sources: Warsaw-based Ramp, which offers services used by crypto exchanges, marketplaces, and wallets, raises $30M Series A at a $300M valuation — Quick Take — The crypto on-ramp firm has secured $30 million several months after closing its $9 million seed raise.
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| Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Rent the Runway, whose online marketplace offers subscription fashion rentals, files for IPO and reports loss of $84.7M on revenue of $80.2M in H1 2021 — - Rent the Runway filed for an initial public offering on Monday and revealed its subscriber base tumbled during the Covid pandemic but has since started to grow again.Sponsor Posts
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