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Jim Waterson

@jimwaterson
91 posts
2024-07-20
Sky News currently playing whalesong, seemingly because of a globally bodged external software update affecting a lot of companies.
2024-07-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market

The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage

Sky News currently playing whalesong, seemingly because of a globally bodged external software update affecting a lot of companies.
2024-07-20 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS  —  Get notified of outages that impact you  —  Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...

Someone, somewhere, is the person who pressed go on that software update. And right now they know exactly what they did and what it has done. And as someone who knows that sinking feeling when you realise you've screwed up at work, I cannot imagine the state of them right now.
2024-07-20 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS  —  Get notified of outages that impact you  —  Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...

Someone, somewhere, is the person who pressed go on that software update. And right now they know exactly what they did and what it has done. And as someone who knows that sinking feeling when you realise you've screwed up at work, I cannot imagine the state of them right now.
2024-07-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market

The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage

2024-07-19
Someone, somewhere, is the person who pressed go on that software update. And right now they know exactly what they did and what it has done. And as someone who knows that sinking feeling when you realise you've screwed up at work, I cannot imagine the state of them right now.
2024-07-19 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …

Sky News currently playing whalesong, seemingly because of a globally bodged external software update affecting a lot of companies.
2024-07-19 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …

2022-12-16
Ok so, Elon Musk is now just banning journalists who report on him. Given 1) DMs aren't encrypted and I wouldn't trust the new twitter leadership not to read them 2) Some colleagues can no longer log in Time to start deleting what you can while you can. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2022-12-16 View on X
NBC News

Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”

Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.

2022-10-18
Something a bit stable door/horse bolted about blocking Facebook's purchase of ... a GIF company ... after allowing them to buy Instagram and WhatsApp. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2022-10-18 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta confirms it will divest itself of Giphy globally after UK's CMA gives a final order to sell the company, following a court-ordered reassessment in July

Bye-bye: Meta has again been ordered by the UK's competition watchdog to sell animated GIF platform, Giphy.  And this time it's final.

2022-10-15
Netflix with ads will be available at £4.99 a month from next month. (I wonder how many people who won't pay at the moment will be tempted to sign up by this lower priced inferior product rather than just... break the T&Cs and find a login to share.) https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2022-10-15 View on X
The Verge

Netflix says Basic with Ads will cost $6.99/month in the US and debut on November 3 in 12 countries, offering most titles, at up to 720p, and without downloads

Basic with Ads Firstpost Tech : Netflix set to launch its ad-supported tier on November 3, check pricing, ad frequency and other details Mitaksh / MediaNama : Netflix announces ad-...

2022-10-14
Netflix with ads will be available at £4.99 a month from next month. (I wonder how many people who won't pay at the moment will be tempted to sign up by this lower priced inferior product rather than just... break the T&Cs and find a login to share.) https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2022-10-14 View on X
The Verge

Netflix says Basic with Ads will cost $6.99/month in the US and debut on November 3 in 12 countries, offering most titles, at up to 720p, and without downloads

Starting in November, Netflix will finally roll out its new ad-supported tier for just a few bucks a month …

2022-10-12
Netflix to finally reveal how many people watch its programmes. Current UK TV audience share: BBC - 23.6% ITV - 13.5% Netflix - 8.2% Channel 4 - 7.1% Sky - 6.0% Channel 5 - 5.1% Amazon Prime - 3.6% Disney+ - 3.0% https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2022-10-12 View on X
The Guardian

Netflix joins the British ratings agency, or BARB, as a full member, publishing independently audited viewing figures on individual shows for the first time

in the UK at least Jessica Bromley / BARB : Netflix signs up to BARB Mariella Moon / Engadget : Netflix will finally disclose how many people watch its shows, in the UK at least Pr...

2022-09-02
Well the UK has finally launched a globally successful online media business and it's... yeah, it's OnlyFans. Who are 100% owned by an American. But are keen to emphasise that they paid £75m in UK corporation tax last year. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2022-09-02 View on X
The Information

OnlyFans reports revenue for the year ending November 2021 rose 160% YoY to $932M, creators up 34% YoY to 2.1M, earning nearly $4B, and fans up 128% YoY to 188M

2022-08-17
TikTok is TV.... Britons aged 15-24 spend an average of 57 minutes a day watching TikTok. More time than they spend watching all traditional TV broadcasts. Meanwhile old people continue to bloody love broadcast TV and watch enormous amounts of it. (Source: Ofcom) https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-17 View on X
Financial Times

Ofcom: in the UK, those aged 15-24 spent 57 minutes/day on TikTok in 2021, compared to 53 minutes/day watching TV; those 65 or over spent six hours watching TV

Ofcom survey points to challenges for traditional broadcasters in keeping pace with digital and streaming trends Source: Ofcom .

2022-04-25
I like how no one is actually pretending they're going to boycott an Elon-owned Twitter, just accepting that they'll hate themselves even more for being addicted to it.
2022-04-25 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: Twitter could reach a deal with Elon Musk for a takeover at $54.20 per share as soon as today

Twitter is in the final stretch of negotiations about a sale to Elon Musk, a person with knowledge of knowledge of the matter said, Bloomberg News reports.

2022-04-14
The Elon vision for Twitter is all about changechangechange the platform and sack the current management. (As lots of other smart people have pointed out, Twitter always sort of works because its management don't actually seem to use/understand Twitter.) https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Elon Musk delivers a non-binding proposal to acquire all of Twitter's outstanding stock for $54.20/share in cash, in a deal worth ~$43B

Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, according to an updated 13D filing, Bloomberg News reports. Source: SEC.gov .

The thing is why not, it might be healthy for everyone if this site just got weird and full of edit buttons and drove lots of us away https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Elon Musk delivers a non-binding proposal to acquire all of Twitter's outstanding stock for $54.20/share in cash, in a deal worth ~$43B

Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, according to an updated 13D filing, Bloomberg News reports. Source: SEC.gov .

2022-03-02
YouTube has geoblocked RT from viewers in the UK, seemingly as part of a Europe-wide ban prompted by EU demands. Which means RT is currently on British TV screens (for now, pending Ofcom) but not on the main online streaming video platform. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-02 View on X
Politico

YouTube plans to block Russia-backed RT and Sputnik in the European Union and the UK, following similar bans by Meta and TikTok, citing the invasion of Ukraine

Russia24 for all YouTube users in Russia and worldwide. We have to stop this evil machine! @pewjournalism : In today's news: - YouTube blocks Kremlin-backed media outlets RT and Sp...

YouTube has geoblocked RT from viewers in the UK, seemingly as part of a Europe-wide ban prompted by EU demands. Which means RT is currently on British TV screens (for now, pending Ofcom) but not on the main online streaming video platform. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-02 View on X
MacRumors

Apple pauses all product sales in Russia, removes RT News and Sputnik News from the App Store outside Russia, and disables Apple Maps' live traffic in Ukraine

Apple today confirmed that it has stopped all product sales from its online website in Russia, which means customers in Russia …

2022-03-01
YouTube has geoblocked RT from viewers in the UK, seemingly as part of a Europe-wide ban prompted by EU demands. Which means RT is currently on British TV screens (for now, pending Ofcom) but not on the main online streaming video platform. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-01 View on X
Washington Post

TikTok confirms it has shut down access to Russian sites RT and Sputnik in Europe following requests from individual governments and the European Union

Facebook and TikTok said Monday that the companies would shut down access to Kremlin-controlled media sites RT and Sputnik in Europe, setting the stage for retaliation from Russia.

2022-02-03
“OK so in 2009 this guy Satoshi invented a Bitcoin thing and it was neat but then became a ponzi scheme that used all our electricity. It also made ransomware attacks easy. So now that's why your corner shop has no Hula Hoops, KP Nuts, or Tyrells crisps.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2022-02-03 View on X
BleepingComputer

The Conti ransomware group hits major British snack producer KP Snacks, affecting the supply of Skips, Hula Hoops, McCoy's, and others to leading supermarkets

KP Snacks, a major producer of popular British snacks has been hit by the Conti ransomware group affecting distribution to leading supermarkets.