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🤔What happened to Facebook? A big article has been released on https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/ about the fall of Facebook. In simple terms. Facebook and almost all of its external and internal services collapsed yesterday. Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp were lying, corporate and business Facebook services were lying, neither websites nor mobile applications responded. What happened: Apparently, one of the network administrators made changes to the configuration of the Facebook network, and in such a way that most of this network ceased to exist. The Internet, which many consider to be a single network, is actually made up of many smaller networks, in fact it is a grid of grids. In order for information from one subnet to get into another, a system was built to exchange information about the configuration and location of nodes in subnets, the routers exchange information with each other about the location of the networks under their jurisdiction using the BGP protocol. So, one of these subnets announced to everyone inside and outside that part of the Facebook network is now not with her. It so happened that it was on this subnet that the NS servers that were responsible for the domains owned by the company lived, which means that from some point on, everyone who tried to find out on which IP address facebook.com was located began to receive an empty response. The consequences are predictable: Facebook and all its services do not work for users, external and internal. Why it took so long: at the same time, Facebook employees found themselves in an unenviable position - all internal resources of the company, including instant messengers and corporate address books, are inaccessible. You cannot enter the office (some of the offices were allowed only with badges that are tied to Internet authorization), almost any usual communication methods were lost. In addition to everything, most of the problems could be solved only with physi

🌡️Google and YouTube will disable monetization on videos that contain statements denying global warming and prohibit advertisements with such statements. The company believes that there is a generally accepted scientific consensus that climate change is occurring globally, that it is about global warming and that it is at least partially caused by human activity and greenhouse gas emissions, and is going to pursue denial of these facts. At the same time, the company's sanctions will not affect other aspects of climate problems, as it is stated - that is, public discussions, research, and so on. In general, this is a rather strong move, although it logically follows from a similar policy regarding Covid-19. The question arises - which of the scientific facts is still planning to defend the company in the near future? According to Google, is there a scientific consensus on the Big Bang theory and the theory of evolution, and how to deal with religious content on YouTube and advertisements for religious movements in this regard? But what about ironic remarks like "Where is global warming here?" accompanied by photographs of unprecedented snowfall and frost? 💥Join and Share t.me/tech_amigo

🖌️A very cool story. In 1894, the Austrian Ministry of Education ordered Gustav Klimt to paint the ceiling of the University of Vienna, namely to symbolize the faculties of medicine, law and philosophy. Klimt depicted each of the faculties in its own unique style - with nudity, metaphorical figures (for example, golden snakes) and in original colors. Conservative bureaucrats did not approve of such a mural, Klimt's drawings were called pornographic, he bought them back and vowed to work for state customers. During World War II, the originals of the paintings were destroyed. Only black and white photos and press descriptions remained. A team of AI specialists from Google collected all the eyewitness accounts of these drawings by Klimt and, together with art specialists, tried to recreate the original paintings. To do this, they trained an algorithm on Klimt's paintings to transfer his style of using colors, and also collected descriptions of paintings from newspaper notes. A detailed story about the project and the result of the work - follow the link, look, it's very beautiful! Even if in the original some colors were different, it is still impressive by orders of magnitude more than black and white copies. 💥Join and Share t.me/tech_amigo

😳​​Wow!!! In July 1997, Wired ran a cover story predicting 25 years of vast global economic expansion that would bring increased prosperity, an improved environment, and unprecedented opportunities to achieve social justice. They also published a list of scenarios that could stop that progress. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/qyigpc/in_july_1997_wired_ran_a_cover_story_predicting/ 💥Join and Share t.me/tech_amigo

In August, US developers released a cryptocurrency called JRR Token. The site had graphics in the spirit of the Lord of the Rings, the slogan "One token that rules them all" (Tolkien had "One ring to rule them all"), and the names of the token and domain imitated the name of the writer himself. I didn't manage to make money on someone else's name. The company that manages Tolkien's intellectual property has filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization. The wily Americans were found guilty of copyright infringement and made to pay significant legal costs. • In October, anonymous developers released a cryptocurrency based on the popular Netflix series Squid Game. The cryptocurrency turned out to be a scam, the developers earned several million dollars on it. 💥Join and Share t.me/tech_amigo

😎Two dudes have brutally broken YouTube's monetization system, making $ 20 million in some stupid scam. They managed to convince the service partner that they owned the rights to 50,000+ tracks and received royalties from them for four years. They reassured YouTube and its intermediary, simply named A.R. (the organization that manages the payments) that they have the right to receive "royalties" from the use of music in vidos, while in some cases the guys used fake documents from the type of "artists", as if they were allowing them to receive money from the tracks. They even assured A.R. that they would not provide content unless it was allowed for commercial use, and then declared the library from a bunch of tracks their own and essentially made A.R. extreme, because they were already responsible for compliance with the requirements and payments. In fact, the artists received while the guys bought real estate for $ 546,000, took a Tesla for $ 130,000, forked out for a BMW i8 for $ 92,000 and, apparently, pleased the girls with jewelry for $ 62,500. It is already quite difficult to find the ends, because not everyone threw complaints, fearing to receive a strike and other problems, but only one complaint with indignation, which received 150 answers, put an end to the life of millionaires. Now the dudes are accused of 30 counts and demand to confiscate all property and even Tesla. In short, this is some kind of wild file of such a giant (not the first and not the last), which will be remembered for a long time and will teach you to take document checking a little seriously. 💥Join and Share t.me/tech_amigo

😳Google announced employees in the United States have a policy about vaccination. Everything is pretty tough: get vaccinated or quit. From January 18, unvaccinated employees will be sent on paid leave for a month, then on unpaid leave for up to six months, and then dismissed. You can refuse vaccination for medical or religious reasons. Earlier, the Biden administration issued a decree: all companies with a size of 100 employees should provide full vaccination or regular testing of the entire staff. The court put the decree on pause, but Google decided not to postpone its implementation. And don't bother with testing: frequent testing is not a valid alternative to vaccination, says an internal memo for 150,000 employees of the company in the USA. 💥Join and Share t.me/tech_amigo

💲M2 money supply in the US has grown from $ 15.32 trillion to $ 21.43 since December 2019. Think about it: the amount of all the money that has been made in the state over its entire centuries-old history has increased by 40% in just 2 years. The Fed's balance sheet increased 110% over the same period to $ 8.75 trillion. The Fed bought almost all of the new government debt, dropping real rates on all US Treasuries to negative values. The capitalization of the US stock market rose by $ 14.66 trillion to $ 48.56 trillion, exceeding the GDP by 218%, which is the historical maximum for this ratio. It's important to mention that this growth has come largely from a handful of the largest tech companies. In 2020, US GDP dipped slightly, but in 2021 it grew to $ 23.2 trillion, surpassing the value of 2019. At the same time, inflation approached 7%. This is a record since 1982 and is more than 3 times the Fed's target. Tens of trillions of dollars around the world are melting. The debt of the US non-financial sector increased to $ 63.67 trillion, which is almost 3 times the country's GDP. The bulk of the $ 28.87 trillion in debt comes from federal and municipal loans. In the new year, it is expected that incentives will be reduced, rates will rise, and inflation will slow down. But it is highly unlikely that companies will be able to maintain their current level of profitability, driven primarily by the huge cash injections. Also, do not forget about the labor shortage and significantly less opportunities to transfer costs to final prices in 2022. 💥Join and Share t.me/tech_amigo

💸The Diem crypto project - previously known as the Facebook Libra cryptocurrency - is considering the possibility of implementing all events related to intellectual assets, returning money to investors and somehow employing them. Bloomberg sources selected with investment banks with a choice of options. Facebook's project clearly did not work out almost immediately, although the prospect of immediately taking the entire audience of the social network into the crypt looked beautiful. But, if you remember, after the first surge in costs, regulators got down to business and all payment systems - VISA, Mastercard, Paypal and others - gradually fell off the project. Yes, and Meta herself is not of particular interest that this suitcase without a handle needs to be somehow attached. 💥Join and Share t.me/tech_amigo

🚀Aviation News: Elon Musk is trying to get the author of the Twitter bot telling where Musk's plane flies to stop doing it. The boy wrote a bot that takes data on the flights of the famous Elon Musk aircraft from ready-made flight trackers (probably the most popular are flightradar24 and adsbexchange) and pushes the message “landed in Austin, Texas” to a regular Twitter account with a picture showing the end of the route. The account has almost 120k subscribers, but Elon has not yet been able to get it off. All this leads to simple thoughts: the availability of information sometimes leads to complex consequences for security, web2.0, to put it mildly, is also not without problems, there are not so many adequate people in the world https://www.protocol.com/elon-musk-flight-tracker 💥Join and Share t.me/tech_amigo

⚡Google yesterday announced the announcement of limited funding for Android. Apple did this last year. Only Google will be the opposite of a more approach. Simply because Google itself receives most of its advertising revenue. The information analyzed in detail the differences in approaches between Apple and Google. In this situation, the Meta will lose the most. For the 4th quarter of 2021, Facebook has already lost $ 10 billion due to the new Apple policy. 💥Join and Share t.me/tech_amigo

🤖A career that starts at McDonald's will soon disappear in the world: the first fully autonomous robotic kitchen has been launched in Israel, making 50 servings of pizza per hour. Hyper Robotics has big plans to expand the range of automatically made dishes. There will be wings, salads, cheese sticks. The first kitchen serves one of the points of the Pizza Hut network, but in the future it is planned to serve other fast food chains. 💥Join and Share t.me/tech_amigo