Friday, July 19
Daily News Stuff 19 July 2024
Watership's Down Edition
Watership's Down Edition
Top Story
- Everything is down. (ABC) (no, the other one)
Supermarkets, airports, petrol stations, universities, law firms, Bunnings, blood donation services, banks, government departments, Microsoft, police computer systems, NSW emergency services, 7-11 and the ABC's own video editing department are offline across Australia because security company Crowdstrike went splat.
Reportedly any computer with Crowdstrike installed is now throwing the Blue Screen of Death after a bad update and the only solution is to boot into safe mode and remove the driver.
Banks, airlines, and emergency services in the US are also affected. (Twitter)
And Europe.
Fortunately hamsters are naturally immune.
And so apparently is Twitter.
Tech News
- AMD's latest 12-core laptop chip comes in just slightly behind Apples 16-core M3 Max on multi-threaded workloads. (Tom's Hardware)
And ahead on single-threaded tasks.
No word on respective power consumption but the M3 Max is not a lightweight in that regard.
It's up to 46% faster than Intel's Core i9 185H as well. (WCCFTech)
Can't buy it yet, but laptops are expected to be in stores before the end of the month.
- Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut. (GitHub)
Take that, Bob from the NSA.
- Don't think I mentioned this one: Email addresses for 15 million Trello users have been leaked. (Bleeping Computer)
We used this at work for a brief time, some years ago.
It sucks.
- Google has ruined Fitbit. (Ars Technica)
Google has ruined Google, so that's no surprise.
- The DOJ's assault on Apple will harm consumers, says App... Rand Paul. (Reason)
I respectfully disagree. Or more precisely, respectfully don't give a damn.
- The USPS shared customer postal addresses with Facebook, LinkedIn, and Snapchat. (Tech Crunch)
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these asshats from violating your privacy.
- RealPage says it hasn't done anything wrong in building its illegal rental price-fixing scheme. (Ars Technica)
"Nobody is above the law, except us", explained a spokesman.
- Meta won't release it's new multimodal Llama AI in Europe, because fuck Europe. (The Verge)
The words they actually used were "the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment" but that translates to "fuck Europe".
- Russia has slammed Google's censorship while at the same time demanding Google remove 5.6 million search results just for mentioning VPNs. (TorrentFreak)
It's a free country. Well, it's not, but... I guess there really isn't a but.
Disclaimer: Prime Day is here. I bought curtains.
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Since they integrated Trello into Atlassian's cloud accounts quite some time ago (and also reduced free-tier functionality while jacking up the price), I wouldn't be surprised if it led to attacks on Jira/Confluence/BitBucket for customers not using two-factor auth.
I use Trello for planning out my Japan trips with my sister, because I haven't found a decent alternative for that sort of shared vacation planning.
-j
I use Trello for planning out my Japan trips with my sister, because I haven't found a decent alternative for that sort of shared vacation planning.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Friday, July 19 2024 09:06 PM (oJgNG)
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Finally, Europe's naturally unpredictable regulatory environment bears fruit!
Posted by: normal at Friday, July 19 2024 10:48 PM (LADmw)
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My new company got hit by this, and we're seeing some server outages. An IT mailing list said that they've been restarting them, and also had to help about 80 people reboot their computers. No mention of replacing hardware, but I doubt they'd say what they did if they weren't able to get the machines working again, and that doesn't mean other people couldn't be having worse problems.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, July 20 2024 12:22 AM (MItL9)
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"Can't buy it yet, but laptops are expected to be in stores before the end of the month."
The reports about this make me wish I needed a new laptop.
The reports about this make me wish I needed a new laptop.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, July 20 2024 12:22 AM (MItL9)
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Along with Crowdstrike, there are an interesting array of failures appearing lots of places. To use a word style from elsewhere - they vilify excellence, and then wonder why nothing works.
Posted by: Frank at Saturday, July 20 2024 01:39 AM (5rlmi)
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The Crowdstrike SNAFU hit my company hard. Our Azure hosted stuff was down for a very short time, but our legacy hosting center took several hours to respond to calls and get someone to physically access our servers. Our few on-premises servers that run our 24 hour response center went down, and were in a locked room that nobody could get into because the access card system was also down. For extra fun, most of our systems are bitlocker encrypted, and the bitlocker keys are in a database on a server that was... down. I'm sure we'll be reviewing some of our practices.
Posted by: David Eastman at Saturday, July 20 2024 02:27 AM (rmrII)
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David, that is a truly impressive Catch 484. (Catch 22 squared.)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, July 20 2024 04:43 PM (PiXy!)
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Heavens! Seeing that 484, I guess I'd never processed that the square of a number is also the product of the squares of its factors. It makes sense, it's just something I'd never bothered thinking about.
Posted by: normal at Sunday, July 21 2024 07:29 PM (bg2DR)
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