Techstrong News Recap – July 25, 2022
On July 25, Natan Solomon discussed the heatwave that shut down multiple UK data centers and Apple’s $50 million settlement over its butterfly keyboards. He also covered Amazon’s legal action against 10,000 Facebook group administrators, the release of Facebook’s reverse chronological feed and China’s massive fine on ride-hailing giant Didi. Finally, he previewed articles from Security Boulevard, Digital CxO and Container Journal, which cover Radware’s newest use of blockchain technologies, what CIOs need to know about graph databases and the significance of 1 billion Flux downloads.
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Today is July 25th and here the headlines. First in news a heatwave forced Google and Oracle to shut down their computers as record temperatures hit much of the UK the tech Giants suffered outages as cooling systems failed at London data centers. Oracle reported that two cooler units in the data center experienced failure causing temperatures to rise and eventually shutting down the systems.
Separately overheating all so affected a Google cloud data center in London in order to prevent damages to the machines Google powered down some of the computers. Although the outages were unexpected. He waves are expected to persist.
So it'll be interesting to see how the measures companies like Google and Oracle will take to combat the issue going forward. Another tech Titan making headlines is apple as it agreed to pay a 50 million dollar settlement on a class action lawsuit. The settlement is over butterfly keyboards a component of some MacBook laptops that frustrated users across the world with typing failures.
The butterfly keyboard was designed to provide Innovative typing Precision, but many customers complain that characters were repeated when pressed or didn't show up on their screens at all. In the lawsuit customers claim that Apple knew about the defects since they were offered free repairs on the defective keyboards back in 2018. Apple was offered to pay anywhere from 50 to 395 dollars to affecting customers.
Customers will be sorted into three groups depending on the scale of repairs their devices received at the time and this will determine how much money each customer gets with about 15 million computers involved. The issue is massive. Another huge lawsuit in today's headlines is Amazon as it is taking legal action against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups.
Amazon claims these Facebook groups are generating fake reviews on Amazon marketplaces and the US UK Germany, France Italy Spain and Japan. In exchange for money or free Goods reviews are being posted on Amazon throwing off buyers and giving sellers unearned good reputations. One of the groups called Amazon product review, which was removed earlier this year by Facebook how to whopping 43,000 members.
Boosting products with a large number of positive reviews can increase sellers visibility on Amazon and place them higher up on search search engine results. The legal action has been filed that a court in Washington King County near Amazon's Seattle headquarters. So we'll see how this dispute plays out.
In other news Facebook is launching a new feature that lets users see posts in Reverse chronological order. The feature called feeds is a tab in the app allowing users to see all the most recent posts from their friends. It is one one of the most requested features and it is set to roll out globally over the next week.
Although it's only going to be released on mobile. At first the desktop version will be available in the next few weeks many believe the move is an attempt at returning to its roots as it started as a few more focus on friends and family in its early years. The move by Meadow Falls up on a similar movement made on its other platform Instagram where it also brought back the chronological feature.
2 billion US dollars for breaking its cyber security laws. The cyberspace administration of China said that it found conclusive evidence against the company after launched an investigation just days after the firm launched to shares in the US last year. In the investigation the CAC found that ddl legit illegally collected 12 million pieces of screenshot information from users mobile photo albums and excessively accumulated 107 million pieces of facial recognition info among other violations.
The CAC also announced that it had imposed funds of 1 million Yuan each on DD Global's chairman and chief executive. Since the funds were imposed DDS stopped trading on the New York Stock Exchange in response DD accepted the ruling and said it would conduct comprehensive and in-depth self-examination. On Security Boulevard, we have an article talking about how radware employs blockchain Technologies to throw Bots.
In this article our very own Mike vizard discusses radware adding blockchain Technologies to its bat manager platform. He weighs the benefits and drawbacks of such a move as well as how blockchain could potentially be used going forward in a similar context. On digital cxo we have an article covering what cios need to know about graph databases?
For one the article discusses the importance of graph databases as a general purpose technology and how they can be well suited for storing the relationships between users. It also talks about some powerful techniques for extracting insights from graphs via unsupervised algorithms. So be sure to check that out on digital cxl.
Finally on container Journal we have an article talking about how one billion flux downloads shows that getops is gaining ground. The article cites we've worked which said container images of its open source flux Version Control software have now been downloaded over 1 billion times the article dive into dives into the significance of this Milestone as well as what it means for forget-ups. So be sure to check that out on container journal and that's we have for you today on our Tech strong news recap.
