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



Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 2028, as the state races to increase electricity production (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

Pranshu Verma / Washington Post : Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 202...