#652 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech With Paul Charlton of WPTuts

#652 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech 10th of December, 2021 at 8:30 am PST

With Special Guest Paul Charlton of WPTuts

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel.

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This Week Stories For Discussion

#1 - Gravatar Says It Was Not Hacked After “Have I Been Pwned” Service Notifies Users of a Breach

https://wptavern.com/gravatar-says-it-was-not-hacked-after-have-i-been-pwned-service-notifies-users-of-a-breach

#2 - Better.com CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/business/better-ceo-fires-employees/index.html

#3 - Black Friday

https://justinferriman.com/bleeping-black-friday

https://getellipsis.com/blog/unstoppable-black-friday-2021/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issue-243

#4 - AWS appears to be down, and it's taken popular services like Ring smart-home systems, Netflix, and Disney+ with it

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-servers-are-down-and-its-affecting-dozens-of-services-2021-12?fbclid=IwAR3BBmfBq2AbJc4u8u11wxQqGzn7n5yzV-7Oh9nRY3cK1cEluNGhqtcrriU

#5 - State of the Word 2021

https://wordpress.org/news/2021/11/state-of-the-word-2021/