IT News Digest #20: Cloudflare outage broke large swathes of the internet, Bitcoin continues to plummet, dropping below $20K, Elon Musk hints at layoffs in first meeting with Twitter employees

Last week in news: Millions of iPhone users could get payouts in legal action; Authorities shut down Russian RSOCKS botnet that hacked millions of devices.

Development:

Java News Roundup by InfoQ: NetBeans 14, End-of-Life for Spring Tool Suite 3, Hibernate 6.1, TornadoV.
PostgreSQL 14 breaks the .NET and Java drivers for PostgreSQL.

Career and IT market:

Elon Musk hints at layoffs in first meeting with Twitter employees. He also addressed topics like remote working, freedom of speech and potential extra-terrestrial life.
Apple battery lawsuit: Millions of iPhone users could get payouts in legal action.
Bitcoin continues to plummet, dropping below $20K. The popular cryptocurrency has lost 74% of its value from its record high in November.
Union wins right to represent workers at an Apple store for the first time. Apple workers in Towson, Maryland, have voted to form the first-ever labor union at one of the tech giant's US stores.

Online Security:

A Cloudflare outage broke large swathes of the internet. Discord, Shopify, Grindr, Fitbit, and Peleton users all reported issues.
Authorities shut down Russian RSOCKS botnet that hacked millions of devices. The botnet is believed to have ensnared millions of internet-connected devices.

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