

It’s far too early to declare Facebook dead. Kevin Roose’s take on the inside look at Facebook revealed by The Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” series, which in turn is based on Frances Haugen’s whistleblower leaks: Kevin Roose: ‘Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew’ ★ I’ll give it another shot this week, but one more like last week’s and I’m out. The premiere of The Problem With Jon Stewart can only be described as “plodding”. John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight devotes itself to the most serious issues in the world today, but the show is entertaining, fast-paced, and funny as hell. I like serious issue-based shows, too, but the good ones, like 60 Minutes, move along at a fast clip. I’m not saying Stewart can or should only do comedy. Strong “ When is this going to be over?” vibes. veterans who’ve been gravely harmed by the burning of toxic waste, but the show itself felt like a droll hour-long lecture - not a good sign when the show was in fact only 40 minutes long. I certainly sympathize with the plight of U.S. I watched the first episode and was bored to tears. Staff banter over each episode’s topic (expanded on in a weeklyĬompanion podcast). Segments in the show’s writers’ room, where Mr. Self-deprecating cracks like, “I am what’s left of Jon Stewart.”īreaking from his previous format, the show includes unscripted The camera, stifles giggles behind his fist and makes He twirls his pen, pauses for deadpan stares into Monologue (now wearing a T-shirt and bomber jacket instead of a In front of an audience, he sits at a table for an opening

Apple TV+ is decidedly more plush butįans will find aspects of “The Problem With Jon Stewart” familiar. “The Problem With Jon Stewart,” his first challenge is getting Now he’s attempting to re-engage with a show that offers fewer John Jurgensen, writing for The Wall Street Journal ( News+): The Problem With ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’ ★ The company wrote that it discovered the breach in May 2021, but The location of the parties in the call, as well as the content of Metadata such as length and cost, caller and receiver’s numbers, Was affected, but according to a person who works at a telephoneĬarrier, whoever hacked Syniverse could have had access to Motherboard about the scale of the breach and what specific data Syniverse repeatedly declined to answer specific questions from Then I realized that Syniverse’s “customers” are entire carriers, not individual people. Transfer (EDT) environment was compromised for approximately 235įor a moment I thought, 235 customers - that’s not too bad. Information allowing access to or from its Electronic Data Unknown “individual or organization gained unauthorized access toĭatabases within its network on several occasions, and that login The company, Syniverse, revealed in a filing dated September 27 Impacting more than 200 of its clients and potentially millions of Infrastructure used by AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and several othersĪround the world such as Vodafone and China Mobile, quietlyĭisclosed that hackers were inside its systems for years, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, reporting for Motherboard:Ī company that is a critical part of the global telecommunications Wheeee! Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked ★ Is a typo in the domain entered in the address bar.ĭNS, man. When attempting to open any of the three sites, they are givenĭNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN errors and advised to check if there Users worldwide are reporting that they are unable to accessįacebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, instead seeing errors that the Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram Down Due to DNS Outage ★ Can’t even imagine how complicated it is at Facebook’s scale. It was as if someone had “pulled the cables” from their data centers all at once and disconnected them from the Internet.ĭNS is deep dark stuff, and even at the pidgin level at which Daring Fireball operates, it terrifies me. Their DNS names stopped resolving, and their infrastructure IPs were unreachable. Facebook and its affiliated services WhatsApp and Instagram were, in fact, all down. Social media quickly burst into flames, reporting what our engineers rapidly confirmed too. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was going on. Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled “Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL” because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. “Facebook can’t be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. Tom Strickx and Celso Martinho, writing for the Cloudflare blog: Understanding How Facebook Disappeared From the Internet ★
