Tue. 06/08 – Fastly Takes Down The Internet

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🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Fastly takes down the internet, highlighting how the internet is still really centralized. The US seized most of the bitcoins those hackers got from the Colonial Pipeline hack, highlighting how Bitcoin is actually eminently traceable. Facebook pokes Apple in the eye on WWDC day, and I give you a wrap-up of the bits a pieces we missed from WWDC yesterday. Sponsors: Kraken.com/techmeme or search "Kraken" in the app store Cybereason.com Links: Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Tech Crunch) U.S. Retrieves Millions in Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers (Wall Street Journal) Facebook will show creators how much money Apple and Google take from them (The Verge) EXCLUSIVE Apple in talks with CATL, BYD over battery supplies for its electric car (Reuters) Adobe launches M1 Mac-native versions of Lightroom Classic and more (The Verge) iOS 15: Find My network can still find your iPhone when it is powered off, or factory reset (9to5 Mac) Apple adds digital legacy service so users can prepare for the inevitable (Cnet) Apple will let users stay on iOS 14 and receive security updates, even after iOS 15 is released (9to5 Mac) Apple’s iCloud Plus bundles a VPN, private email, and HomeKit camera storage (The Verge) Book Recommendation: Network Effect by Martha Wells Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, June 8th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Fastly takes down the internet, highlighting how the internet is still really centralized.
0:14.7	The US seized most of the Bitcoin's those hackers got from the colonial pipeline hack, highlighting
0:19.9	how Bitcoin is actually eminently traceable.
0:22.6	Facebook pokes Apple in the eye on W.W.C. day,
0:25.9	and I give you a wrap up of the bits and pieces
0:28.6	we missed from W. W. D.C. yesterday.
0:31.9	Here's what you missed in the world of tech.
0:35.0	Many of the largest websites in the world went down early today,
0:40.0	including Amazon, Twitch, the BBC, the New York Times,
0:44.7	Spotify, Reddit, and the Financial Times,
0:47.7	all due to an issue at the Fastly CDN,
0:52.0	which has now been fixed.
0:53.4	Usually I don't report on things going down,
0:56.1	like, you know, when Slack goes down or Gmail goes down.
0:59.0	Because by the time I do, it's usually old news.
1:02.2	But I'm mentioning this outage because for like an hour, like half
1:06.1	the internet was dark. There are some huge names involved there. And it's also a reminder that while the
1:12.2	internet feels like it's this ad hoc
1:14.3	decentralized thing, it's really not. Here's Tech Crunch with an explainer.
1:18.4	Quote, content delivery networks or CDNs are a key part of the internet infrastructure.
1:24.0	These companies run global networks of servers
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