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Nov. 15, 2020 02:47PM EST
Fauci says transition delay harmful to public health as COVID-19 cases surge
NIAID Director Anthony Fauci said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday that President Trump's refusal to cooperate with President-elect Biden's transition team hurts public health as coronavirus cases surge across the country.
The state of play: As President Trump refuses to concede the election to President-elect Joe Biden, General Services Administration Administrator Emily Murphy has not signed documents declaring Biden the apparent winner, preventing the president-elect's agency review teams from having access to the information they need in order to get to work.
What he's saying: Fauci, who has served for 36 years under six presidents, said the transition process is "like passing a baton in a race."
- "You don't want to stop and then give it to somebody. You want to just essentially keep going and that's what transition is so it certainly would make things more smoothly if we could do that."
- Asked if he would like to start working with Biden's team from a public health perspective, Fauci responded, "Of course, that's obvious. Of course it would be better if we could start working with them."
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Jun. 09, 2021 11:53AM EST
Fastly says global internet outage was due to a software bug
Fastly, the popular content delivery network (CDN) hit by a global internet outage Tuesday, chalked the episode up in a blog post Tuesday to a software bug triggered by a customer changing their settings.
The state of play: Fastly's outage caused a slew of popular websites — including The New York Times, CNN, Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, PayPal, Vimeo, Shopify — to crash.
Why it matters: The episode highlighted "how the much of the global internet is dependent on a handful of behind the scenes companies like Fastly that provide vital infrastructure, and it amplified concerns about how vulnerable they are to more serious disruption," the AP writes.
The big picture: The bug was introduced in a software update deployed May 12, and was triggered Tuesday by a customer making a "valid" change in their computer settings, Nick Rockewell, Fastly's senior vice president of engineering and infrastructure, wrote in the blog post.
- The company is working to fix the bug in their network and to understand how the bug it wasn't detected during the update's testing phase.
What they're saying: "We detected the disruption within one minute, then identified and isolated the cause, and disabled the configuration. Within 49 minutes, 95% of our network was operating as normal," said Rockwell.
- "This outage was broad and severe, and we’re truly sorry for the impact to our customers and everyone who relies on them," he added.
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