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Apple TV, Amazon’s AWS and Alexa Back Up After Thousands of Users Experience Outage
Amazon.com said its cloud computing division Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its voice assistant service Alexa were back online after a brief outage on Sunday. Downdetector, an outage tracking website, also reported Apple TV to be down for several users.
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Amazon Restores Services After Multiple Users Face Outage
Multiple users experienced a brief outage at Amazon's platforms including Alexa and Prime Video late Wednesday before services were restored, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.
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Apple Admits a Small Portion of Siri Recordings Are Heard by Humans
Apple allows Siri recordings to be heard by contractors as part of a process called "grading", which improves the efficacy of the voice assistant, a report claims.
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Amazon Stores Alexa Voice Recordings and Transcripts Indefinitely, Shares Records With Third-Party Skill Developers
Alexa’s privacy issues come back to public attention, as a new letter sheds light on how much information Amazon is storing
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Amazon Alexa Reportedly Creeps Out Echo Owner by Saying 'All I See Is People Dying'
A man from San Francisco reported said that Amazon's Alexa gave him a very freaky experience last week.
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Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri Can Be Tricked by Hidden Malicious Voice Commands: Report
In 2016, a students group demonstrated how some voice commands can be hidden in white noise. Now, researchers have found more media in which to embed commands.
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Alexa Skill Developed to Eavesdrop on Conversations, Amazon Fixes Vulnerability
Security researchers at Checkmarx intimated Amazon for the vulnerability that enabled spying on users.
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Amazon's Alexa Randomly Laughs at Users and Nobody Knows Why
Amazon Echo owners are facing an issue where the Alexa voice assistant has been laughing for apparently no reason.
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Apple TV, Amazon’s AWS and Alexa Back Up After Thousands of Users Experience Outage
Amazon.com said its cloud computing division Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its voice assistant service Alexa were back online after a brief outage on Sunday. Downdetector, an outage tracking website, also reported Apple TV to be down for several users.
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Amazon Restores Services After Multiple Users Face Outage
Multiple users experienced a brief outage at Amazon's platforms including Alexa and Prime Video late Wednesday before services were restored, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.
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Apple Admits a Small Portion of Siri Recordings Are Heard by Humans
Apple allows Siri recordings to be heard by contractors as part of a process called "grading", which improves the efficacy of the voice assistant, a report claims.
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Amazon Stores Alexa Voice Recordings and Transcripts Indefinitely, Shares Records With Third-Party Skill Developers
Alexa’s privacy issues come back to public attention, as a new letter sheds light on how much information Amazon is storing
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Amazon Alexa Reportedly Creeps Out Echo Owner by Saying 'All I See Is People Dying'
A man from San Francisco reported said that Amazon's Alexa gave him a very freaky experience last week.
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Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri Can Be Tricked by Hidden Malicious Voice Commands: Report
In 2016, a students group demonstrated how some voice commands can be hidden in white noise. Now, researchers have found more media in which to embed commands.
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Alexa Skill Developed to Eavesdrop on Conversations, Amazon Fixes Vulnerability
Security researchers at Checkmarx intimated Amazon for the vulnerability that enabled spying on users.
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Amazon's Alexa Randomly Laughs at Users and Nobody Knows Why
Amazon Echo owners are facing an issue where the Alexa voice assistant has been laughing for apparently no reason.
