Linked List: June 8, 2018

Friday, 8 June 2018

Facebook Bug Set 14 Million Users’ Sharing Settings to Public ★

Heather Kelly, reporting for CNN:

For a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default sharing setting for all new posts set to public, the company revealed Thursday.

The bug, which affected those users from May 18 to May 22, occurred while Facebook was testing a new feature.

David Frum:

It’s so weird that this never happens the other way around, settings accidentally changed so that Facebook users inadvertently get more privacy than they signed up for.

Yeah, so weird. What are the odds?

How the Washington Capitals Partied in Las Vegas With the Stanley Cup ★

Adam Kilgore, writing for The Washington Post:

First, the Washington Capitals won the National Hockey League championship Thursday night. And then, as their red-rocking fans were passing out in a fit of euphoria back East, they took full advantage of the location in which they claimed the franchise’s first Stanley Cup. They hit the club, prize in hand, and they partied.

Some say the sun doesn’t rise in Vegas. The Caps, led by their captain, were up to the challenge of finding out.

The whole story is great, but I love this bit so much:

The threshold for who could venture on stage started to lower. Disbelief had yet to dissipate. “How amazing is it you can walk into a bar and the Stanley Cup is there, 10 yards away?” one Capitals employee asked, standing by the bar. He then escorted onto the stage a longtime Caps season-ticket holder who had gained entry, in part, by buying acceptable clothing off the back of a man on the street for 20 bucks. (He had previously been denied on the grounds of wearing sandals and shorts.)