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Crypto trading firm Wintermute targeted by hackers who took $160m
Hackers made off with around $160m worth of assets from Wintermute in the latest cyberattack to hit a crypto firm.
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Amazon Took All US Solar Rooftops Offline Last Year After Flurry of Fires, Electrical Explosions
The documents, which have never been made public, indicate that between April 2020 and June 2021, Amazon experienced “critical fire or arc flash events” in at least six of its 47 North American sites with solar installations, effecting 12.7% of such facilities. Arc flashes are a kind of electrical explosion. “The rate of dangerous incidents is unacceptable, and above industry averages,” an Amazon employee wrote in one of the internal reports. […] By June of last year, all of Amazon’s U.S. operations with solar had to be taken offline temporarily, internal documents show. The company had to ensure its systems were designed, installed and maintained properly before “re-energizing” any of them.
Amazon spokesperson Erika Howard told CNBC in a statement that the incidents involved systems run by partners, and that the company responded by voluntarily turning off its solar-powered roofs. “Out of an abundance of caution, following a small number of isolated incidents with onsite solar systems owned and operated by third parties, Amazon proactively powered off our onsite solar installations in North America, and took immediate steps to re-inspect each installation by a leading solar technical expert firm,” the statement said. […] “As inspections are completed, our onsite solar systems are being powered back on,” Howard said. “Amazon also built a team of dedicated solar experts overseeing the construction, operations, and maintenance of our systems in-house to ensure the safety of our systems.” “An Amazon employee estimated, in the documents circulated internally, that each incident cost the company an average of $2.7 million,” adds the report. “The Amazon employee also said the company would lose $940,000 per month, or $20,000 for each of the 47 decommissioned North American sites, as long as the solar remained offline. There could be additional costs for Amazon depending on contracts with clean energy partners for renewable energy credits, the documents show.”
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Netflix briefly took Friday off, but now it’s back up.
UPDATE: Aug. 19, 2022, 1:46 p.m. EDT This article has been updated to reflect that the issue had been resolved.
Who among us hasn’t wanted to just walk out of work early on a Friday?
That’s what Netflix did on Friday morning anyway. Users started reporting widespread outages around 11 a.m. ET on the last day of the work week, according to Down Detector (owned by Mashable’s parent company, Ziff Davis). That means the easiest way to catch up on Better Call Saul or rewatch Breaking Bad (sorry, those are the only shows on my mind after the excellent BCS finale this week) waltzed out of the office without telling anyone.
Netflix itself even confirmed the issue on its website. The service worked for me, personally, at the time of writing, and the Down Detector graph started to recede around 11:30 a.m., but plenty of folks around the world still lost out on their ability to stream shows on a Friday. Bummer!
Credit: Netflix
Not long after, Netflix’s site was updated to confirm that the issue had been resolved. A Netflix spokesperson told Mashable it was a “minor glitch” that took less than 10 minutes to resolve.
That means now everyone can catch up on Vince Gilligan’s nuanced, character-driven masterpieces. Seriously, Better Call Saul is so good. I can’t believe it. Go watch it.