Take a Network Break! Internal misconfigurations at Google led to significant disruption to popular services including YouTube, Apple announced HomeKit integrations with security cameras and home routers for tighter security, and launched a new sign-in service to compete with Facebook and Google.

The IEEE unbanned Huawei reviewers from pre-publication technical papers, a British security official calls Huawei software “shoddy” (and doesn’t have good things to say about its competitors’ software either), and Firefox amps up its privacy features.

We discuss just how much funding U.S. telecos get from the government, Cisco acquires industrial security controls company Sentryo, and Google spends billions to buy analytics purveyor Looker.

Arista announces a new switch family and a Wi-Fi 6 AP, and Microsoft partners with Axe on an Xbox-branded line of soaps and deodorants.

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An update on Sunday’s service disruption – Google

Google Outage Sharpens Focus on Cloud Network Reliability – Data Center Frontier

Apple enables HomeKit support for home security cameras and routers – The Verge

Sign In With Apple – Apple

At WWDC 2019, Apple touts Sign In as convenient without privacy hit – CNET

Apple created the privacy dystopia it wants to save you from – Fast Company

IEEE says it may have gone about things the wrong Huawei, lifts ban after US govt clearance – The Register

Huawei must raise ‘shoddy’ standards, says senior UK cybersecurity official – The Guardian

Firefox 67.0, See All New Features,