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: Monday, 4 October 2021 Understanding How Facebook Disappeared From the Internet ★ Amazed at the detail I was able to extract. I took the ProRAW file into Lightroom CC on the iPhone. 30-Second Night Sky Exposure on iPhone 13 Pro ★ Apple: ‘Celebrating Steve’ ★ġ0 years after his death, Apple has a nice short film - effectively narrated by Jobs himself - on its home page, along with a beautiful little statement from Jobs’s family. Was far more important than wanting to be right. Being curious andĮxploring tentative ideas were far more important to Steve than Socially acceptable talking about what is known. It is more comfortable, far easier and more In larger groups our conversations gravitate towards the tangible, With many people, curiosity is a decision requiring intent and
That after a traditional education, or working in an environment Many of us have an innate predisposition to be curious. Knowledge or expertise, nor was it casual or passive. His insatiable curiosity was not limited or distracted by his He was without doubt the most inquisitive human I have ever met. Jony Ive, in a remembrance of his friend for The Wall Street Journal ( News+): Tuesday, 5 October 2021 Jony Ive on Steve Jobs ★ The lack of a built-in iPad Weather app was a little weird before, but now that they have a built-in Weather widget that, when you tap it, takes you to The Weather Channel’s janky-assed website, it’s downright bizarre.
And they throw it all in the trash compactor when it comes time to drill down on the iPad. Apple just redid the Weather app in iOS 15 to be more beautiful. Insert the Steve Jobs giving the finger image here.ĭo executives hold some sort of blackmail on the iPad OS dev team within Apple? I can’t come up with a better explanation. And with that, Apple will be sending tens of millions of dollars (maybe more?) indirectly to - which, incidentially is now owned by IBM. And that default Weather widget is about to land on tens of millions of iPad screens with the launch of iPad OS 15 this fall. Yes, I know there is no shortage of third party weather apps. Generalissimo Francisco Franco Still Dead iPadOS Still Has No Weather App ★