Poorly received by investors, the moves comes in a difficult year Cloud-based data warehousing and analytics biz Snowflake has issued $2 billion in bonds with the aim to buy back shares and potentially launch an acquisition strategy....

Also: Crypto hacks will continue; CoD hacker gets thousands banned, and more in brief One of the suspected masterminds behind the widespread Snowflake breach has been arrested in Canada - but the saga isn't over, eh....

Customers in 10 of the company's 23 regions had operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete." Snowflake pushed an update this week that caused a major outage" worldwide, leaving many users unable to query data, experiencing failures when ingesting files, and receiving error messages for 13 hours, the company wrote in an impact statement....