How Akamai crashed the Internet, TikTok’s algos figure you out fast, Google transparency, Etherium forking, health “misinformation,” and more on this episode of Grumpy Old Bens.
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NOTES / LINKS:
Akamai DNS failure crippled the Internet for two hours
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/22/akamai-dns-problem-causing-wide-internet-issues
Akamai Says It Has Fixed Issues That Affected Many Websites
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-22/ups-home-depot-among-websites-hit-by-widespread-service-outage
Akamai DNS global outage takes down major websites, online services
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/akamai-dns-global-outage-takes-down-major-websites-online-services/
DuckDuckGo’s new email privacy service forwards tracker-free messages
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgos-new-email-privacy-service-forwards-tracker-free-messages/
How TikTok’s Algorithm Figures You Out – WSJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfczi2cI6Cs
Bill Would Strip Social Media of Protections for Health Misinformation
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bill-to-strip-social-media-of-protections-for-health-misinformation-11626976800
Americans spend again and American Express profit surges
https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-879a94ac579792e7021d31dab9bee477
Single Japanese man, 51, almost masturbates himself to death after suffering a stroke moments after he ejaculated
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9810615/Japanese-man-masturbates-death.html
Twitter reveals surprisingly low two-factor auth (2FA) adoption rate
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/twitter-reveals-surprisingly-low-two-factor-auth-2fa-adoption-rate/
MLB to test electronic device for catchers to give signals to pitchers
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31869009/mlb-test-electronic-device-catchers-give-signals-pitchers
Most URLs are syntactically valid javascript code
https://george.mand.is/2021/06/idle-javascript-observations/
Transparency from Google search
https://blog.google/products/search/learn-more-and-get-more-from-search/
EIP 1559 Ethereum fork
https://academy.ivanontech.com/blog/what-is-eip-1559-and-will-ethereum-go-deflationary-with-it
93% of paint splatters are valid Perl
https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
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