Hi, I'm Joe Kernan, co-host of Squawk Box with Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin.

And this is five things to know before the opening bell.

Some major websites coming back online, finally, following an overnight outage from Amazon Web Services,

AWS.

Disrupted sites included perplexity, Snapchat, Disney Plus, Coinbase, and Robin Hood.

In Apple, news on Apple, the latest generation of iPhones outsold the previous model by 14%

in its first 10 days on sale in the US and China.

That's according to a Bloomberg report, citing data from counterpoint point research.

China is accusing the US of a hacking campaign

aimed at the country's national time center.

China's state security ministry said

it found evidence of infiltration from as far back as 2022.

And finally, shares of medical device maker, Whole Logic are higher.

Reports say that Blackstone and TPG are in advance talks to acquire the company.

We're also watching the shares of Tesla proxy advisor, ISS, recommending investors vote against a pay plan for CEO Elon Musk that

would grant him nearly a trillion dollars more in stock if the company hits aggressive targets

in a post on X, which is owned by Musk. Tesla accused ISS of missing fundamental points of investing in governance.

And I saw a flippant, Elon Musk posted, that I really don't like this ISIS.

ISIS, because it's stuck in a next...

AIS.

Yeah, instead of ISS.

Andrew, you had, remember the pen you had?

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