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Yammer Extended Outage. Update: It's Back! – TechCrunch
Nik Cubrilovic @nikcub / 10 years Update: Yammer is back! In a blog post the company explains that the issue was with a master switch. Yammer, the Twitter-like short messaging service for business users, has been experiencing a prolonged period of downtime today due to DNS issues. The service first went down over 12 hours ago, was alive for a short period tonight, and then became unresponsive again a few hours ago. The issue is also affecting sister company Geni, who share the same DNS servers.
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[Note: although the following story is fiction, all quotations have been reproduced exactly from historical documents that exist.] Ed was old enough to remember his first transistor radio—a Zenith Royal 500—back when seven transistors attracted attention at the beach. Soon the Japanese showed up, doing better (and smaller) with six. By the time Ed turned 65, fifteen billion transistors per second were being produced.
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Logging out of Facebook is not enough
Important Update: Facebook has responded and issued a fix for this issue. See the follow up blog post “Facebook Fixes Logout Issue, Explains Cookies” Dave Winer wrote a timely piece this morning about how Facebook is scaring him since the new API allows applications to post status items to your Facebook timeline without a users intervention. It is an extension of Facebook Instant and they call it frictionless sharing.
Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto
Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto. He wasn’t Satoshi Nakamoto before or after Wired and Gizmodo suspected him to be last year, and he still isn’t Satoshi Nakamoto after revealing himself to be to The BBC, The Economist, GQ, Jon Matonis and Gavin Andresen. There is a long and fraught history in Bitcoin of claims and counterclaims about who Satoshi is, and one would think that lessons had been learned and a high standard would be set for subsequent claims regarding Satoshi Nakamoto.
Interpol Issues Alert for Soccer Execs
Interpol has put out a “red notice” for six soccer executives wanted in connection with a U.S.-led probe into corruption at FIFA. The U.S. is looking to extradite Jack Warner, Nicolás Leoz, and four sports-marketing officials. “The individuals concerned are wanted by national jurisdictions and Interpol’s role is to assist national police forces in identifying or locating those individuals with a view to their arrest and extradition,” the organization said.
FIFA Scrambles Press Conference
FIFA suddenly called a press conference Tuesday at its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. Originally scheduled for 5 p.m. local time (12 p.m. Eastern), the presser was pushed back twice and is now scheduled for 6:30 local, 1:30 Eastern. President Sepp Blatter is reportedly scheduled to attend a day after the New York Times reported that his aide essentially moved a bribe to an official.
FIFA’s Impossible, Corrupt Qatar Math: How FIFA Had to Have Known Forced Labor Was Needed for 2022’s Qatari World Cup
How did Qatar ever win the right to host the 2022 World Cup? Even by FIFA’s own math, corruption is the only answer. Sepp Blatter’s FIFA Presidential campaign, at least in public, consisted of a single statement—that he would run on his record as a FIFA executive of over 40 years and his record as president over the past 17.
FIFA’s Impossible, Corrupt Qatar Math: How FIFA Had to Have Known Forced Labor Was Needed for 2022’s Qatari World Cup
Sepp Blatter’s FIFA presidential campaign, at least in public, consisted of a single statement—that he would run on his record as a FIFA executive of over 40 years and his record as president over the past 17. To watch him spin his Friday re-election as a mandate for change—only days after a significant number of his executives had been arrested on criminal corruption charges—may seem both hypocritical and surreal to observers. But to football fans, it is nothing new. That’s FIFA.
Textbook Rental Market Heats Up: BookRenter Raises $6M Series A – TechCrunch
Nik Cubrilovic @nikcub / 11 years Earlier this month college textbook rental company Chegg raised $112M as part of a combined Series D and debt round, bringing the total raised by the company to a massive $144M. Competitor BookRenter will tomorrow announce a Series A round of $6M, raised from Storm Ventures and Adams Capital Management. BookRenter has only raised a fraction of the capital of their competitor Chegg, but the company claims that it is growing at over 300 percent, year-over-year.
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