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What began as a performance incident at 13:40 UTC cascaded through API requests, Actions, Issues, Pull Requests, authentication, and Copilot over more than seven hours, with error rates hitting 50% on repository downloads at the peak.
Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW natural gas plant in West Texas authorized to emit 33 million tons of CO₂ per year — potentially more than any other single facility in the US — to power its first off-grid AI data center campus.
A malfunction in Amazon Web Services' billing computation system displayed wildly inflated charges to some customers on July 17, with one bill estimated at roughly $2.5 billion. Amazon says the numbers are wrong and a fix is still in progress.
Rockstar confirmed on Saturday that some of its data was compromised in a breach of a third-party provider. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying it had gained access to the company's Snowflake instances (a cloud-hosting provider popular with enterprise customers)
An experienced hacking group has claimed to have infiltrated Rockstar Games' cloud servers, while the game publisher has confirmed that there was a "third-party data breach." ShinyHunters, a hacker group that's been linked to data breaches targeting Microsoft, Google, Ticketmaste
XChat is now on the App Store, where its listing says that it’s expected to be available for download on April 17. This isn’t the same IRC app from the early aughts, which you may remember if you’re of a certain age. This is a messaging app specifically for X users. X chief Elon
Plus: Iran’s internet blackout hits the 1,000-hour mark, cryptocurrency scams result in a record amount of money stolen from Americans, and more.
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From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.
Amazon is ending support for third-party integrations on its Luna cloud gaming service. The most immediate changes mean that it's no longer possible to buy Ubisoft+ and Jackbox Games subscriptions or standalone games through Luna. Amazon will automatically any cancel active subsc
The astronauts traveling in the Artemis II spacecraft were allowed to take smartphones with them. Sadly, they can’t connect to the internet.