Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, December 14th, 2021.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

More fallout from what is now being called potentially the worst bug of all time.

Apple helps Android users discover if they're being tracked by air tags.

A new entrant into the AR and VR product category that I guess we're going to be covering a lot more going forward.

Amazon is coming for DoorDash and Instacart.

And how much did Meta have to pay to become Meta?

Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech.

Hey, so that whole Log4J thing continues to be a big, big deal.

How big? Well, how about the fact that the CISA director Jen Easterly said yesterday on a call with security and tech industry officials that the Log 4J flaw is likely

affecting hundreds of millions of devices right now and may end up being the most

serious bug she has seen in her entire career. In fact, quoting her directly, quote,

one of the most serious I've seen in my entire career, if not the most serious,

end quote, quoting from CyberScoop. We expect the vulnerability to be widely exploited by sophisticated actors

and we have limited time to take necessary steps

in order to reduce the likelihood of damage, she said, of the Apache Log4J flaw.

The issue is an unauthenticated remote execution vulnerability that could allow an intruder

to take over an affected device.

Hundreds of millions of devices are likely to be affected, said Jay Gazlay of CISA's

vulnerability management office in the call with critical infrastructure owners and operators.

CISA, a component of the Department of Homeland Security is setting up a dedicated

website as soon as Tuesday, that's today, to provide information and counteractive

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