🔧 Numerous popular websites are facing an outage
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Numerous popular websites are facing an outage. Countless popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, news outlets the Guardian, BBC, Financial Times are currently facing an outage. Typically an outage of this nature occurs when a vital internet infrastructure service faces an issue. (Manish Singh via TechCrunch)
The FBI operated an 'encrypted' chat app for organized criminals. The FBI covertly ran an encrypted communications platform for years that allowed it to intercept 20 million messages from international criminal organizations. Hundreds of arrests have been made across 18 countries as part of the investigation known as Operation Trojan Shield. (Saqib Shah via Engadget)
U.S. report concluded Covid-19 may have leaked from Wuhan Lab. A report on the origins of Covid-19 by a U.S. government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis claiming the virus leaked from a Chinese lab in Wuhan is plausible and deserves further investigation, according to people familiar with the classified document. (Michael R. Gordon via Wall Street Journal)
U.S. Recovered Millions in Ransom From Colonial Pipeline Hackers. The U.S. recovered almost all the Bitcoin ransom paid to the perpetrators of the cyber attack on Colonial Pipeline Co. last month in a sign that law enforcement is capable of pursuing online criminals even when they operate outside the nation’s borders. (Chris Strohm via Bloomberg)
El Salvador To Make Bitcoin Legal Tender: A Milestone In Monetary History. On June 5, at a conference in Miami, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced that the Central American country is in the process of adopting bitcoin as legal tender: a move that would make El Salvador the first country to deem bitcoin an official national currency. (Avik Roy via Forbes)
Big law firms are donating pro bono hours to block unions at legal nonprofits where their partners are board members. Public defenders are unionizing, but some are facing resistance from their management. The firm Winston & Strawn represented one legal-aid group's management pro bono. (Kevin T. Dugan via Business Insider)
Deutsche Bank warns of global 'time bomb' coming due to rising inflation. In an out-of-consensus forecast, Deutsche Bank is warning of a potential crisis coming from inflation. 'The effects could be devastating, particularly for the most vulnerable in society,' the firm's economists said. (Jeff Cox via CNBC)
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