Microsoft’s Having A Bad Time

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Timestamps:
0:00 i'm sorry for this
0:20 Microsoft services DDoS
1:32 Deepfakes under scrutiny
2:37 Perplexity shares revenue
4:22 QUICK BITS INTRO
4:31 Ryzen 9 5900XT launches
5:17 Amazon forced to recall 400K products
5:53 Meta $1.4B settlement
6:33 Google Gemini Olympics ad
7:15 'Friend' AI wearable

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[life-of-dan]

Paying $1.8 mil for a domain is diabolical 💀

[xeros]

5:31 remember when Amazon was selling radioactive, thorium laced pendants, wristbands and GODDAMN BED SHEETS AND SLEEP MASKS. good times.

[gasracing]

Delta wants $500, 000, 000 from CrowdStrike? What, the $10 gift card wasn't enough? Come on! 😂🤣

[videos]

"Hey I just set up DDOS protection"
"Great, should we test it?"
"Nah, it's fine"

[TheXDS]

Fun fact: I applied for a job as a Senior Reliability Engineer for Office 365 for the Latam region at Microsoft last year. One of the interviewers spent about 1 hour talking about extreme outage scenarios, and how they were building up this amazing monitoring subsystem that upon detecting a server crash could automate a reboot and/or a service restart, depending on several parameters, like the service response time, logging information, ability to reach the server, error/exit code, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't quite test properly for DDoS and the monitoring system was accidentally restarting services on its own. I do recall that they were configuring very tight timings, and a few ms away from that may cause the monitoring system to unintentionally trigger thinking that there was an internal issue.

PS: Ultimately, they did not give me the job.

[Razear]

Never underestimate a multi-billion dollar conglomerate's inability to adequately invest in cybersecurity.

[sharpenednoodles]

That amazon delivery network joke was absolute gold

[andywolan]

Oh, so Riley was wearing their “dead pixel” t-shirt. I thought he had a piece of white lint on it that he forgot to remove. 😂

[hovant]

Regarding the illegal Facebook Marketplace listings, I've even noticed them in my city but you can't report an ad on the grounds that something about it is illegal, which is sort of breathtaking in a way

[epickh]

Our poor dystopian Microsoft overlords are having a bad time? So sad.

[gordug]

Was that an advert for friend or a trailer for the next season of Black Mirror?

[TewaAya]

The friend necklace could be a good dnd/cosplay "living armor/weapon".

[hubbabubba]

Calling it now: Friend is another money laundering front.

[stevew]

"Friend"? It's looking more and more like a black mirror episode all the time. I used to like that show, now it scares me.

[BagelmanSupreme]

I wish Google would focus on making their search algorithm actually give me useful results instead

[jakenfred]

dont forget theres now a bill or something to make removing new tracking meta data on images illegal

[Talon]

So Friend is basically just Rabbit 2.0?...

[kobuseksteen]

I'm gonna start a competing wearable company called 'Friendo' with devices voiced by Javier Bardem.

[feederbrian]

7:48 that zoom shot does and says it all.

[gfdia]

The guy in the Ad for Friend was hilarious 🤣 7:46 😂