Sunday, July 21, 2024

How indie game developer Terrible Posture Games avoided bankruptcy after an ~$800K investment from an unlikely source: Nerd Ninjas, another indie developer (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
How indie game developer Terrible Posture Games avoided bankruptcy after an ~$800K investment from an unlikely source: Nerd Ninjas, another indie developer  —  Terrible Posture Games got funding help from an unlikely source: another indie developer  —  Hi everyone.



Indian crypto exchange WazirX has "temporarily" paused trading activities days after it suspended customer withdrawals after losing ~$230M in a security breach (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Indian crypto exchange WazirX has “temporarily” paused trading activities days after it suspended customer withdrawals after losing ~$230M in a security breach  —  WazirX, one of India's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has suspended all trading activities on its platform days …



Malaysia's Johor state is attracting billions of dollars as tech giants take advantage of cheaper land and more abundant energy to build data centers (Mercedes Ruehl/Financial Times)

Mercedes Ruehl / Financial Times:
Malaysia's Johor state is attracting billions of dollars as tech giants take advantage of cheaper land and more abundant energy to build data centers  —  Companies take advantage of cheaper land and more abundant energy  —  In what were once wild jungle and palm oil plantations in southern Malaysia …



Academics say publisher Taylor & Francis hadn't told them about selling access to authors' research as part of a $10M+ Microsoft AI deal, nor let them opt out (Matilda Battersby/The Bookseller)

Matilda Battersby / The Bookseller:
Academics say publisher Taylor & Francis hadn't told them about selling access to authors' research as part of a $10M+ Microsoft AI deal, nor let them opt out  —  Authors have expressed their shock after the news that academic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge …



Saturday, July 20, 2024

Microsoft estimates that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5M Windows devices, or less than 1% of all Windows machines (David Weston/The Official Microsoft Blog)

David Weston / The Official Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft estimates that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5M Windows devices, or less than 1% of all Windows machines  —  On July 18, CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update that began impacting IT systems globally.  Although this was not a Microsoft incident …



The CrowdStrike debacle may have accidentally provided cybercriminals and countries like China a more detailed road map to disrupt US critical infrastructure (David E. Sanger/New York Times)

David E. Sanger / New York Times:
The CrowdStrike debacle may have accidentally provided cybercriminals and countries like China a more detailed road map to disrupt US critical infrastructure  —  With each cascade of digital disaster, new vulnerabilities emerge.  The latest chaos wasn't caused by an adversary …



CrowdStrike says a sensor configuration update to Windows systems triggered a logic error that resulted in a system crash and BSOD on impacted systems (CrowdStrike)

CrowdStrike:
CrowdStrike says a sensor configuration update to Windows systems triggered a logic error that resulted in a system crash and BSOD on impacted systems  —  What Happened?  —  On July 19, 2024 at 04:09 UTC, as part of ongoing operations, CrowdStrike released a sensor configuration update to Windows systems.



Trump's comments on Taiwan hollowing out the US chip industry are incorrect, and risks opening up a fissure for China to exploit and push its own tech sector (Tim Culpan/Bloomberg)

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Trump's comments on Taiwan hollowing out the US chip industry are incorrect, and risks opening up a fissure for China to exploit and push its own tech sector  —  Viewing the US-Taiwan relationship as contentious, instead of cooperative, risks opening up a fissure for China to exploit.



Friday, July 19, 2024

Microsoft says it fixed a configuration issue causing Microsoft 365 apps and services outage and restored several services; some services remain degraded (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Microsoft says it fixed a configuration issue causing Microsoft 365 apps and services outage and restored several services; some services remain degraded  —  Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble  —  UPDATED Microsoft's 365 subscription services are down for some users …



Netflix added 8M subscribers in Q2 vs. 5M est., as it benefited from a crackdown on password-sharing and popular titles like Bridgerton and Baby Reindeer (Reuters)

Reuters:
Netflix added 8M subscribers in Q2 vs. 5M est., as it benefited from a crackdown on password-sharing and popular titles like Bridgerton and Baby Reindeer  —  Netflix (NFLX.O) said on Thursday it added more than 8 million subscribers in its second quarter as the streaming service benefited …



CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says "the issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed", and CrowdStrike is working with impacted customers (George Kurtz/@george_kurtz)

George Kurtz / @george_kurtz:
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says “the issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed”, and CrowdStrike is working with impacted customers  —  CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We



Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft data centers (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the out...