Source: AWS' operation in Bahrain was damaged after an Iranian strike; Bahrain earlier said the civil defence force was “extinguishing a fire in a facility”
Sources: Amazon's AI tools have caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December; Amazon says it was “user error, not AI error”
Tech giant blames ‘user error, not AI error’ for incident in December involving its Kiro tool — Amazon's cloud unit has suffered …
After AWS's major outage, Signal's Meredith Whittaker says there “isn't really another choice” but to use AWS and “the entire stack” is “owned by 3-4 players”
Meredith Whittaker is using the AWS outage as an opportunity to highlight the 'concentration … Bluesky: @meredithmeredith , @meredithmeredith , @meredithmeredith , and @meredithmeredith Forums: r/tech...
Amazon blames a rare software bug and “faulty automation” for this week's massive AWS glitch, and says it has turned off the flawed automation worldwide
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Eight Sleep adds an outage mode to its smart beds after complaints they were stuck at sweltering temperatures and in inclined positions during the AWS outage
Thousands of Eight Sleep owners were unable to adjust temperatures or bed positions while while Amazon's servers were down.
AWS says “the underlying DNS issue” is mitigated and most “operations are succeeding normally” after a huge US-EAST-1 outage; some services are still “impacted”
The cause of the AWS outage is currently unclear.
US public records: AWS is aggressively promoting AI surveillance tech to law enforcement agencies, partnering with companies such as Flock Safety and ZeroEyes
It's also pushing all manner of surveillance tools, including Flock car tracking and AI that constantly monitors all prison calls. … @skynetandchill.com : Public records show Amazon Web Services has b...
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Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots …
Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones
“Marc Andreessen, a co-inventor of the pioneering Mosaic web browser, co-founder of the Netscape browser company and current general partner at the famed Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) venture capital fir...
The US FTC releases a report saying Microsoft's $13B investment in OpenAI raises concerns that the company could extend its cloud computing dominance into AI
Microsoft-Open AI raises alarms Jon Keegan / Sherwood News : FTC report scrutinizes OpenAI and Anthropic's partnerships with cloud giants Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia : US warns of risks in Micr...