1. Slack is down. On Tuesday morning, Slack, the office information system for some employees, was paralyzed, an incident that brought disaster (perhaps joy?) to employees across the country. For several hours, users had trouble sending and receiving messages, receiving notifications, and accessing desktop applications.
The salesforce-owned company serves more than 156,000 enterprise clients, including major agencies like Netflix and Uber.
According to user reports on Down Detector, there are also issues with AWS, Peloton, and Github. But the cause of these issues, and whether they are related to Slack's downtime, is unclear.
Employees immediately discussed the blackout on Twitter (because what else can we do in a time of crisis?) One user wrote: "If there is an outage, the law allows you to go back to sleep."
Slack fixed the issue a few hours later and attributed the downtime to a "configuration change" that caused a sudden increase in activity on its database infrastructure.
2. Cryptocurrency scammers are turning to dating apps and social media to deceive their victims. Some dating app users pretend to be in a relationship for months to swindle the life savings of unsuspecting victims, while others imitate others on Instagram and cheat their closest friends.
3. How much does Netflix pay its employees? Insider's website, which analyzed U.S. work visa data to gauge the streaming company's salary levels, found that the company offers a base salary of between $40 an hour and $800,000 a year for certain positions.
4. ID.me refuse to provide veterans affairs services to hundreds of veterans and their families. According to a document obtained by Insider, the verification services used by the Department of Veterans Affairs since 2019 ID.me problematic, with particular impacts on older veterans, their families and caregivers, and veterans overseas.
5. Google Chat will fully replace Workspace users' Hangouts messaging service from March. Google has announced that starting March 22, it will use Google Chat as the default chat app, which means that users will be redirected to Google Chat when they try to access Hangouts in Gmail on the web, or try to use the old Hangouts mobile app.
6. Meta said a manager had left the company after allegedly appearing in a video of a minor sexual assault. In the video, Jeren Miles, a community development manager, appears to have been questioned by members of the Predator Catchers group in Indianapolis over an exchange with a boy who is allegedly 13 years old.
7. A senior assistant at Harlem Capital explains how she got a job without any experience. After conducting research on the venture capital firm and reading all of its blog posts, Nicole DeTommaso got an internship and turned it into a full-time job.
8. New Relationship Warning: Elon Musk may have a new girlfriend. Months after breaking up with musician Grimes, the Tesla CEO was reported for dating Australian actress Natasha Bassett.
9. Spotify's "Car Thing" is officially released. Spotify's hardware product, "Car Thing, aptly named" is a touchscreen, voice-controlled gadget that connects the streaming service to the user's car speakers, which are basically Spotify's remote controls.
10. Sony has introduced a new VR headset for the Playstation. The PlayStation VR2, which will compete with Meta's Quest headphones, has some upgrades such as a lens adjustment dial, a new vent design, and a lighter weight.