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2026-03-03
One of AWS data centers in the UAE caught fire after being hit by ‘objects’ (maybe be a drone or missile) amid the Middle East conflict. UAE based data center like AWS and others are heavily used by import/export companies, banking & finance, shipping, IT, Energy, & regional govt [image]
2026-03-03 View on X
CNBC

AWS warns of “unpredictable” Middle East operations after drones “directly struck” two UAE facilities and a drone strike near one of its Bahrain facilities

Amazon Web Services said late Monday two of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a facility in Bahrain were damaged by drone strikes, taking the facilities offline.

2026-03-02
One of AWS data centers in the UAE caught fire after being hit by ‘objects’ (maybe be a drone or missile) amid the Middle East conflict. UAE based data center like AWS and others are heavily used by import/export companies, banking & finance, shipping, IT, Energy, & regional govt [image]
2026-03-02 View on X
The Verge

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour says the startup will void certain bets related to Iran's Ali Khamenei and claims it doesn't “list markets directly tied to death”

Users say rules barring ‘profiting from death’ are unclear. … In a statement on X, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour …

One of AWS data centers in the UAE caught fire after being hit by ‘objects’ (maybe be a drone or missile) amid the Middle East conflict. UAE based data center like AWS and others are heavily used by import/export companies, banking & finance, shipping, IT, Energy, & regional govt [image]
2026-03-02 View on X
Reuters

AWS says its facilities in the Middle East are facing power and connectivity issues after unidentified “objects” struck its data center in the UAE

Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit, AWS, said on Sunday that power to its data center in the United Arab Emirates was shut down temporarily …

2025-08-12
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft's AI engineering team. GitHub has operated as a separate company ever since Microsoft acquired it in 2018 for $7.5 billion, but Dohmke's departure is part of a big shakeup to the way GitHub operates [image]
2025-08-12 View on X
Axios

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he will “leave GitHub to become a founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization

once independent programming site now part of ‘CoreAI’ team Todd Bishop / GeekWire : GitHub will join Microsoft's CoreAI division with departure of CEO Thomas Dohmke Kaustubh Bagal...

2024-11-29
Damn. Nothing is safe out there. Bootkitty: Analyzing the first UEFI bootkit for #Linux https://www.welivesecurity.com/ ... #infosec #security
2024-11-29 View on X
BleepingComputer

ESET researchers find the first UEFI bootkit designed specifically to target Linux systems, marking a shift in bootkits that previously focused on Windows

Article then proceeds to describe a toy GRUB wrapper bootkit that has nothing to do with UEFI firmware (other than running on UEFI systems like any other UEFI bootloader), does not...

2024-09-21
Intel used to be the leader in x86, but today it is losing market share rapidly to the new generation of CPUs and GPUs, especially those using ARM architecture. The Wall Street Journal reports Qualcomm approached Intel about a possible takeover [image]
2024-09-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Qualcomm made a takeover approach to Intel in recent days, but a deal is far from certain; Intel's market cap is ~$93B and Qualcomm's is ~$188B

A deal for Intel would be massive and come at a time when the chip maker is sputtering.

2024-07-20
#linux users right now 🐧 [image]
2024-07-20 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS  —  Get notified of outages that impact you  —  Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...

Guys, I started working at the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. Today is my first day. Eight hours ago, I pushed major code to production. I am so proud of myself. I am going now home. I feel something really good is coming my way tomorrow morning at work 🥰🧑🏻‍💻
2024-07-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market

The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage

#linux users right now 🐧 [image]
2024-07-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market

The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage

Guys, I started working at the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. Today is my first day. Eight hours ago, I pushed major code to production. I am so proud of myself. I am going now home. I feel something really good is coming my way tomorrow morning at work 🥰🧑🏻‍💻
2024-07-20 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS  —  Get notified of outages that impact you  —  Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...

2024-07-19
#linux users right now 🐧 [image]
2024-07-19 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …

Guys, I started working at the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. Today is my first day. Eight hours ago, I pushed major code to production. I am so proud of myself. I am going now home. I feel something really good is coming my way tomorrow morning at work 🥰🧑🏻‍💻
2024-07-19 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …

2024-06-12
Lynn Conway, an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender activist, has passed away.  She pioneered asynchronous execution, VLSI circuit design, and the modern field of chip design.  A trans woman who, after being unfairly terminated by IBM, never stopped fighting for the rights of trans people. https://en.wikipedia.org/... RIP
2024-06-12 View on X
Axios

IBM and Xerox PARC engineer Lynn Conway, who helped shape the way chips are designed and undertook a gender transition in 1968, died last weekend at age 86

- In the 1970s, Conway helped author “Introduction to VLSI Systems,” a seminal book in the field of chip design that became …

2024-05-29
Yann LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Meta, woke up and chose violence this morning 😂
2024-05-29 View on X
Gizmodo

In a spat on X, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun calls out Elon Musk for saying xAI will pursue “truth” as Musk spreads “crazy-ass conspiracy theories” on X

But It Does Have Privacy Issues Emergent Behavior : 2024-05-29: Memorial Day Shenanigans Siddharth Jindal / AIM : Yann LeCun Delays Elon Musk's AGI Plans James Farrell / SiliconANG...

2024-05-24
DuckDuckGo, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT's web search, Ecosia, and Qwant all stopped working this morning because of Bing API.  😂 And they want Microsoft Copilot deeply integrated with Windows OS.  Imagine someone is unable to book emergency medical appointments because Microsoft Copilot is down or you can't withdraw money or transfer funds through netbanking because AI and screenshot services are down.  This is a good example of why we must not trust someone like Microsoft for anything serious.
2024-05-24 View on X
BleepingComputer

Users reported a massive Microsoft outage that impacted Bing, Copilot on the web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT's internet search, DuckDuckGo, and more

2024-05-07
Everyone should immediately stop contributing to the stack overflow and its network. The human touch is what made it unique. Delete your profile from SO AND all your answers. Freeloaders are making money out of human contributions.
2024-05-07 View on X
TechCrunch

Stack Overflow signs a deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models; new integrations between Stack Overflow and OpenAI should be available by the end of June

here's why it'll transform LLM development Ryan Daws / Developer Tech News : Stack Overflow and OpenAI partner to empower developers Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Stack Overflow and Ope...

2024-03-30
Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps — 1.2 million times faster than your home broadband connection https://www.livescience.com/ ... What would you do with such fast Internet connections?
2024-03-30 View on X
LiveScience

Researchers say they achieved fiber-optic data transfer speeds of 301 Tbps by using the E-band, a spectral band that has never been used in commercial systems

1.2 million times faster than your home broadband connection https://www.livescience.com/ ... What would you do with such fast Internet connections? @_electroniccash : This is roug...

2024-03-02
Oh my.  Elon Musk is suing OpenAI which currently getting majority of its funding from Microsoft.  😂
2024-03-02 View on X
Axios

Memos: OpenAI execs reject Musk's claims, say OpenAI is committed to benefiting humanity and has yet to achieve AGI; Altman says the “attacks will keep coming”

CEO Sam Altman sent a follow-up message, echoing Kwon's statements and acknowledging that this year is shaping up to be a hard one for the company.

Oh my.  Elon Musk is suing OpenAI which currently getting majority of its funding from Microsoft.  😂
2024-03-02 View on X
Courthouse News Service

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying OpenAI's founding agreement to develop an AGI for the “benefit of humanity” rather than profit

“It's a fun complaint to read; it fundamentally accuses OpenAI & its CEO, Sam Altman, of pretending to run a nonprofit designed to benefit humanity while actually running a regular...

2024-03-01
Oh my.  Elon Musk is suing OpenAI which currently getting majority of its funding from Microsoft.  😂
2024-03-01 View on X
Courthouse News Service

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying an agreement from OpenAI's founding to develop AI toward the “benefit of humanity” over profits

OpenAI is not so open now, Musk claims, following the closed source release of the company's artificial general intelligence technology under Microsoft.