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Cloudflare says its Sunday morning problems were due to CenturyLink outage

Cloudflare said its Sunday morning outage affecting numerous websites was due to an IP outage by internet service provider CenturyLink. “Today we saw a widespread Internet outage online that impacted many multiple providers,” a Cloudflare representative said “This was not a Cloudflare-specific outage. Level 3/CenturyLink was responsible for an outage that affected many Internet services, […]

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Facebook pilot links user profiles with online news subscriptions

Facebook is testing the feature with a handful of publishers, ranging from The Atlantic to the Winnipeg Free Press, and early test results are promising. In June, subscribers who linked their Facebook accounts made 111 percent more article clicks compared to those who didn’t link their accounts, Facebook said in a blog post. “People have account and password […]

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Tesla worked with the FBI to block a million dollar ransomware attack

Tesla and the FBI worked together to prevent a group of ransomware hackers from attacking Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada, according to a complaint from the FBI. The documents, first reported by Electrek, show that on August 22 the FBI arrested a 27-year-old Russian citizen named Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov in Los Angeles.  According to a complaint shared by […]

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Facebook takes down militia group that organized armed response to protests

Facebook has removed the page for a Kenosha, Wisconsin militia group after it organized a “call to arms” event as a response to protestors demonstrating against the police shooting of Jacob Blake Jr. Facebook’s takedowns come after two protestors were shot and killed Tuesday night by “a young White man carrying a rifle,” according to The Washington […]