The Internet Archive is back online after a cyberattack on October 9.   The Wayback Machine is back in a provisional, readonly manner, according to founder Brewster Kahle.   Users can't upload web ...

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- The **Internet Archive** is back online after a cyberattack on October 9. 
- The **Wayback Machine** is back in a provisional, read-only manner, according to founder Brewster Kahle. 
- Users can't upload web pages but can access content that's been archived over time. 
- The organization has faced **Distributed denial-of-service** attacks (DDoS) and a breach of a user authentication database with 31 million unique records. 
- The site is now processing 1,500 requests per second, with data safety being prioritized over service availability.

Source: [Fast Company](https://www.fastcompany.com/91209670/the-internet-archive-is-back-online-after-a-cyberattack)

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Internet Archive Resumes Service Post Cyberattack- Grapevine

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This has been happening for quite sometime - I have posts/reels 🧾 on LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Chrome bookmarks 📌 with the hope of going thru them sometime. 
However, next day new content comes, save them again, and never open them. The cycle repeats 🔃.

Does this happen to many?? 🤔
Has anyone found a solution to this? 🤔

Content overload 🧾 - Do you also save links in bookmarks to never read them?

Product Manager

Had read recently about Google losing user data on GDrive here. 
Didn't figure up until recently if I'd lost something. Was just going through my old files and trying to recover data from old version of a sheet. Somehow, it's completely blank! 

It's quite unfortunate because I do all my work on Google Suite, and don't ever even think about this. Wonder what else I've lost :/

Google has indeed lost some of our data on Drive - affected personally

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Thinking of heading to FAANG from Goldman. Can anyone confirm what it is like inside FAANG?

How hard is it to survive at FAANG companies?

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Google has potentially lost Google Drive user data.

I am impacted. Cant find files of recent months. They are not much important to me.

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/245055606/google-drive-files-suddenly-disappeared-the-drive-literally-went-back-to-condition-in-may-2023?hl=en

Google drive data lost for users

They did a mass delete for inactive accounts recently, no.
Guess they forgot a WHERE clause

Software Engineer

Everything is loading for me feed, post, comments. I’ve checked my internet, it is working fine.

Is grapevine down 😱

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AI advancements within Google may lead to job displacement, prompting the company to consider staff consolidation and potential layoffs by reassigning employees in the customer sales unit, responsible for managing relationships with major advertisers. Here are the details.

Google to fire 30,000 more employees? Report suggests AI jobs may lead to restructuring inside company

Google 30k layoffs 🤯

Interesting article!
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-chaos/676050/

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Another one bites the dust. Alpha Wave is too big, and this is fucked up for the ecosystem. They were really one of the heavy weights. Another big wallet with growth funding ability, just gone...

Alpha Wave Global to stop startup investments in India 🚨

They have big pockets but very cunning and power hungry people. They promote cut-throat ruthlessness. They are being smart now and backing out early so that later they can wash off their hands form being one of the primary players to have destroyed the startup ecosystem. The OG falcon had at least little bit of honesty, business savvyness and heart. From the time it became alpha wave and some terrible incompetent people took up important roles, it has been a downhill.  
  
 Someone from alpha -  be the whistleblower. But unlikely there would be anyone who has the guts to speak up. Their leaders have ensured to hire only weak yes-people.

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Investment Associate

Sorry for the long post :(

I'm a 2021 graduate from a tier 3 college. I was working at a small startup based in Bengaluru that is into SAAS. The headcount is less than 20 and a completely remote job.

I don't have any notice period. I was told that I can leave the company whenever I want without any prior notice. And it's not mentioned anywhere in the contract. I had a promotion due in September 2022 in which the new agreement was supposed to be implemented where I had to serve a 90 day notice period and salary hike of 15% of my current CTC.

But the promotion was put on hold till now. I asked them multiple times but I was told that it's on hold indefinitely due to "shortage of funds".

On December 31st I sent a resignation letter as it will be my last working day. Even though it was a very short notice, I completed all the documentation about the things I worked on. Anyone who can understand English can deploy the entire product. And moreover everyone had worked on the product and almost everyone had a good understanding of the product. 

Sometime in 2021, I received a bonus of 62k which was sent to my personal bank account (the company itself didn't have a corporate account back then). Since the company didn't provide me any work laptop, I was told casually that I can use the bonus to purchase a new laptop or keep it to myself.

I made a mistake of now waiting to get the December month salary before resigning. Now he's telling me that the bonus he sent is for the company laptop and it will be adjusted as my December month salary. When I asked about the purpose of the bonus was not to get the company laptop but to keep it myself, he's refusing to accept it. (Almost everyone in the company uses their personal laptop).

And coincidentally there was a service outage as the company uses free services wherever available (for example, oracle cloud free tier, free version of slack, GitHub and lot more). Continued in comments....

My company is threatening me

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Lately, I have been thinking very deeply about my college days when the Flipkart story had inspired the entire lot of my batch at IIT-D. We were starry eyed college kids who wanted to do something innovative in India and break away from the "three" most popular moves after IIT:

1. UPSC
2. MBA
3. MS/PhD abroad

I proceeded to then work in various Indian startups and noticed an alarming thing. I began to realise a pattern across all my stints:

The initial founding team does exceptional work innovating, they excel at what Thiel calls "Zero to One", the act of creation. I will concede that although most founders fail to innovate by often copying what worked in the west but the initial founding team usually excels in execution. It allows for initial traction as it breathes a fresh breath in the\ space that they are operating in.

Almost always, when Product Market Fit is "achieved"(whatever that means), the founders begin to deploy insane amounts of funds into growth. 

By definition, Growth is not a bad thing. But, I have been noticing that across all startups I have worked at( all raised funds from the largest global funds) that it comes at the expense of product building. And during this era of hypergrowth, the product starts to stagnate while focus becomes marketing and sales. 

I often felt that this was temporary. That once we reach enough scale, we would start to innovate again. 
But time and time again, the ability to innovate atrophies over time.
Rather than building something that has enduring value by executing faster than anyone, the focus becomes achieving growth at all costs. 

This ultimately leads to two outcomes:
1. The startup cannot sustain this growth and retention begins to look dire. The churn becomes unbearable and the startup goes out of business.

2. The startup gets acquired by someone bigger, allowing founders and investors to believe that they created value where none existed in the first place.

I am completely dejected at this.

The Death of Indian Innovation: Why Indian Start Ups are failing to Innovate?

Growth Manager

What's the craziest reason someone got fired?

Here's mine at my previous job. A collegue of mine was fired for smoking weed in the bathroom. He got back to his laptop and he was high as fuck, I am pretty sure he didn't even understand why he was getting fired.

- Major banks, media, airports and airlines affected by major IT outage

- Payment systems impacted in different parts of the world, including Australia and the UK.

- Australia's government calls for emergency meeting 

- Significant disruption to some Microsoft services

- 911 services disrupted in several US states including Alaska, Arizona, Indiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Ohio. 

- Services at London Stock Exchange disrupted

- Sky News is off air

- Reports the issue relates to problem at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike

Windows outage is affecting everything :/

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What's your most embarrassing moment in your office

Was sharing screen for internal call when I zoned out and started texting my girlfriend on screen

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