The Morning After: Facebook’s empire goes offline | Engadget

I locked myself out of my condominium yesterday. It’s a uncommon incidence, however when it does occur, I often textual content my constructing’s WhatsApp group, begging somebody to buzz me in. So it was not a good time for Facebook’s whole community, together with WhatsApp, Instagram (oh and Oculus), to break down for six hours.

While it’s unclear precisely what occurred, throughout the downtime, the corporate’s outgoing Chief Technology Officer, Michael Schroepfer, stated it was because of “networking issues.”

Even inside Facebook, the problems reportedly led to staff being unable to entry emails, Workplace and different instruments. The New York Times reported that staff have been additionally bodily locked out of places of work as employees’ badges stopped working. Poor Facebook.

By 6 PM ET yesterday, many of the providers have been again, although Facebook for Business Status web page nonetheless confirmed “major disruptions” to core providers. On Facebook — when it was again on-line — CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the providers happening.

That didn’t assist me with my low-priority drawback. Fortunately, I gleaned a few of my neighbor’s cellphone numbers from WhatsApp, and despatched a couple of SMS SOSes, ‘00s type. Twenty minutes later, I used to be lastly again in my dwelling.

— Mat Smith

Microsoft’s most nice OS — till it is not.

Windows 11 is sort of right here, and it’s (typically) a strong step ahead aesthetically from Windows 10. According to Devindra Hardawar, among the modifications might annoy long-time customers. It’s a safer OS as nicely, however that additionally means it’s extra restrictive, hardware-wise, and doubtlessly tougher to improve. For these contemplating their choices, we now have a information to

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She says firm ‘chooses income over security’.

Internal paperwork printed by The Wall Street Journal not too long ago revealed that Facebook allowed VIPs to interrupt its guidelines, and it was conscious Instagram affected the psychological well being of teenagers. Now, the whistleblower who introduced that data to mild has revealed herself as Frances Haugen in an interview with 60 Minutes.

“I’ve seen a bunch of social networks, and it was substantially worse at Facebook than what I had seen before,” Haugen informed the present. “Facebook, over and over again, has shown it chooses profit over safety.”

Haugen joined Facebook in 2019, engaged on democracy and misinformation points, whereas additionally dealing with counter-espionage, in keeping with a private web site and Twitter account she and her group arrange. She labored as a Facebook product supervisor and left the corporate in May.

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Going the place Bezos has gone earlier than.

After many years of pretending to discover the universe in TV exhibits and films, William Shatner is definitely going to house. Blue Origin’s second vacationer spaceflight is scheduled for October twelfth. Shatner, 90, is to turn into the oldest individual to fly to house. He’ll take the document from 82-year-old aviation pioneer, Wally Funk, who was a passenger on New Shepard’s first crewed flight in July.

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Ready to put on on October fifteenth.

Apple has introduced when you can snag an Apple Watch Series 7. Pre-orders begin this Friday, October eighth, at 8 AM ET. The system, which begins at $399, might be out there one week in a while October fifteenth.

The largest change this 12 months is a bigger, always-on show. Apple has bumped up the case measurement choices to 41mm and 45mm whereas decreasing the bezel to 1.7mm, that means it ought to really feel fairly much like last-generation Watches, however with extra display screen. The person interface takes benefit of the bigger display screen, with a full, swipe-based QWERTY keyboard and two further watch faces.

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