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A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees
Amazon has published a detailed postmortem explaining how a critical fault in DynamoDB's DNS management system cascaded into a day-long outage that disrupted major websites and services across multiple brands – with damage estimates potentially reaching hundreds of billions of dollars.…
SAP says some customers are dragging their feet on contract sign-offs
SAP disappointed investors today after reporting full-year cloud revenue at the bottom end of its guidance range, with execs saying customers in manufacturing and the public sector are taking longer to sign contracts.…
Senators accuse Smithsonian of 'illegal lobbying' over Discovery squabbles
The saga of the Great Space Shuttle Relocation has taken another turn after US lawmakers asked the Department of Justice to look into alleged lobbying by the Smithsonian museum to prevent a possible transfer of Discovery to Houston, Texas.…
Amazon's AI specs aim to stop delivery drivers getting lost between van and porch
Amazon is testing AI-powered smart glasses to help its drivers get from their vans to customers' doorsteps.…
Microsoft threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem
Microsoft's mission to "Copilot all the things" has reached Exchange Server, with a survey asking if admins want the AI assistant on-prem.…
SpaceX pulls plug on 2,500 Starlink terminals tied to Myanmar fraud farms
SpaceX says it has shut down thousands of Starlink terminals that were powering Myanmar's notorious scam compounds after its satellite network was found to be keeping human trafficking and cyber-fraud operations online in the country's lawless border zones.…
Microsoft finance slang defines the eternal optimist: The 'hockey stick on wheels'
Microsoft's finance division has a term for an overly optimistic projection that seems to march backward year after year: the hockey stick on wheels.…
OpenBSD 7.8 out now, and you're not seeing double, 9front releases 'Release'
The 59th version of the OpenBSD operating system is here, six months after 7.7, with multiple improvements in various areas.…
UK.gov vows to hack through regulation to get benefit from AI
Ignoring the skeptics and threat of an AI bubble, the UK government is pushing ahead with AI "sandboxing" and backing a raft of projects it claims could benefit from red-tape cutting.…
Apple’s AirDrop makes weird latency spikes for Wi-Fi wonks, researcher finds
Networking researcher Christoff Visser has found that Apple devices cause Wi-Fi networks to “jitter” due to traffic generated by the Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) tech that powers the peer-to-peer AirDrop filesharing tool.…
With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator
In the same week that a massive outage of its own cloud inconvenienced millions of customers, AWS has delivered an improved interactive incident reporting service to help its customers explain what happened when their cloud-hosted resources strike trouble.…
IBM renting GPUs from rivals rather than packing ‘em into its own cloud
If IBM reveals improved profit margins or a fresh round of redundancies, AI may be the reason, because Big Blue today revealed that its own “Project Bob” developer assistance tools have improved productivity among its coders by 45 percent.…
OpenAI's Atlas shrugs off security concerns over prompt injection
OpenAI's brand new Atlas browser is more than willing to follow commands maliciously embedded in a web page, an attack type known as indirect prompt injection.…
Ex-Uber CSO is gellin' like a felon with teen cyber crims, explains why they do it
interview Two convicted felons walk into a room at the request of a federal judge who wanted one of them - Joe Sullivan, the former Uber chief security officer found guilty of attempting to cover up a 2016 breach at the rideshare company - to help rehabilitate the other, whom the feds accused of hacking into corporate networks as a teen and participating in a "significant" digital heist.…
NextSilicon Maverick-2 promises to blow away the HPC market Nvidia left behind
Researchers and engineers working in particle physics, materials analysis, or drug discovery haven't exactly been spoiled for choice when it comes to chips capable of the highly precise double-precision calculations that these workloads depend. NextSilicon aims to change that with Maverick-2, a chip aimed not at AI but the high-performance computing (HPC) community.…
Reddit to Perplexity: Get your filthy hands off our forums
Reddit on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI and three of its alleged data dealers for trafficking in unlawfully scraped information.…
Salt Typhoon hit governments on three continents with SharePoint attacks
Security researchers now say more Chinese crews - likely including Salt Typhoon - than previously believed exploited a critical Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability, and used the flaw to target government agencies, telecommunications providers, a university, and a finance company across multiple continents.…
TI CEO says some customers still wary of Trump's import tax roulette
The global semiconductor market is recovering, albeit at a slower pace than in previous cycles due to macroeconomic dynamics and ongoing uncertainty caused by US trade policy and tariffs, according to Texas Instruments.…
AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out
AlmaLinux is to support the Btrfs file system in version 10.1 of its eponymous RHELative operating system.…
Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block
Microsoft will kill Office Online Server next year, creating a headache for anyone using on-premises Office web applications and the beleaguered holdouts sticking with Skype for Business Server.…