This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The new iPhone 16 is displayed during an announcement of new products at Apple headquarters Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, in Cupertino, Calif. Credit: AP Photo/Juliana Yamada, File Apple complained that requests from Meta Platforms for access to its operating software threaten user privacy, in a spat fueled by the European Union's inte ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Workers at several Amazon facilities from southern California to New York are picketing. Thousands of workers at Amazon facilities across the United States went on strike Thursday, the Teamsters Union said, halting work at the height of the busy holiday gift-giving season. The union, which says it represents some 10,000 worker ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Mass tourism is a hot topic in Spain as foreign visitors drive the economy but fuel anger about unaffordable housing. Spain's leftist government on Wednesday opened an investigation into holiday rental platform Airbnb for allegedly failing to take down adverts for thousands of apartments without a tourist license. Mass tourism ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Netflix said it was appealing against the decision. Dutch authorities fined video streaming giant Netflix 4.75 million euros ($4.98 million) Wednesday over its handling of subscribers' personal data, which it said was unclear or incomplete in several respects. Netflix said it had appealed against the fine, noting it had cooper ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The Amazon logo is displayed, Sept. 6, 2012, in Santa Monica, Calif. Credit: AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File Amazon Web Services will invest another $10 billion to bolster its data center infrastructure in Ohio. The company and Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced the plan Monday. The new investment will boost the amount it has com ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain China's Alibaba said Tuesday that it had agreed to sell department store chain Intime at a $1.3 billion loss, as the tech giant trims down its operations with competition intensifying in the country's cutthroat e-commerce market. Alibaba said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange tha ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The Data Protection Commission (DPC) criticised Meta for a security flaw in its video upload function which hackers were able to exploit. An Irish regulator helping police European Union data privacy on Tuesday said it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 251 million euros ($263 million) for a data protection failure that saw users' ac ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Australian Information Commissioner today announced a settlement with tech giant Meta over its involvement in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The settlement will see Meta establish a A$50 million payment program for Australian Facebook users who had their personal data harvested by the Br ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For years, Amazon has faced accusations that the pressure the company puts on its warehouse workers to work more quickly has led to higher rates of injuries. Now, an investigation by a U.S. Senate committee led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, has found that Amazon itself made the link betw ...

Core Insights - A significant outage affected Meta's major social media and messaging platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads, impacting users globally [1][2][3] - The outage was first reported in the US on Wednesday, affecting services from the UK to Canada and beyond, with Meta indicating a resolution was 99% complete five hours later [3][4] Outage Scope - The outage impacted nearly all of Meta's products, including business services like Facebook Ads Manager and the Messenger API for Instagram, as well as the Login with Facebook service [2][5][6] - The widespread nature of the outage suggests a single point of failure in Meta's systems, indicating a critical component that all services rely on may have malfunctioned [7][10] Design for Reliability - Major internet platforms are typically designed for high reliability through replication across content delivery networks (CDNs), which help manage demand and ensure service continuity [8][9] - The outage's extensive impact raises concerns that it may have occurred in a part of Meta's infrastructure that lacked proper replication [10] Lessons Learned - The incident serves as a reminder of the importance of fault isolation in system design, where components are built to minimize the risk of a single point of failure affecting the entire system [11][13] - The need for critical systems to be engineered for maximum reliability is emphasized, particularly in light of previous outages caused by tightly integrated systems [12][13] Future Considerations - The exact cause of the outage remains undetermined, but it highlights the reliance of businesses and individuals on Meta's services for communication and commerce [14][15] - There is an expectation for Meta to provide clarity on the causes of the outage and the measures to prevent future occurrences [15]