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Global Reddit Outage: Thousands Unable To Access Platform, Investigation Underway
The company has acknowledged the issue, identified the cause, implemented a fix, and is now monitoring the situation.
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Diwali Blackout: How the AWS Outage Crippled Major Apps Across the World
Amazon Web Services (AWS) faced a widespread outage on October 20, disrupting several major platforms, including Apple TV, Reddit, and Snapchat. The outage, lasting nearly 12 hours, coincided with Diwali celebrations in India and affected online businesses running festive campaigns. AWS later attributed the issue to a DNS error in its US-East-1 reg...
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Amazon Cloud Outage: Where It Originated, What Malfunction Reveals
A massive internet outage stemming from errors in Amazon cloud services on Monday morning demonstrated just how many people rely on the corporate behemoth's computational infrastructure everyday.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Launches Automated Reasoning Checks in Preview to Combat AI Hallucinations
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new service at its ongoing re:Invent conference that will help enterprises reduce instances of artificial intelligence (AI) hallucination. Launched on Monday, the Automated Reasoning checks tool is available in preview and can be found within the Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. The company claimed that the tool mathe...
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Amazon Alexa ‘Challenges’ 10-Year-Old Girl to Touch Penny to Exposed Prongs of Live Plug
Amazon's Alexa voice assistant in a bizarre and dangerous 'challenge' suggested a 10-year-old girl should touch exposed prongs of a plugged-in charger with a penny. Amazon later apologised for the incident and said the "error" was fixed.
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Amazon-owned Twitch Says Source Code Exposed in Last Week's Data Breach
Twitch said on Friday that last week's data breach at the live streaming e-sports platform contained documents from its source code, but did not expose sensitive user data.
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PS5, PS5 Digital Edition August 26 India Restock Sold Out in Minutes, Technical Errors Abound
PS5's August 26 India restock, predictably, disappeared in minutes. Moreover, technical issues plagued almost all platforms, including Amazon, Croma, Games The Shop, Prepaid Gamer Card, ShopAtSC and Vijay Sales.
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Twitter Apologises to Parliament Panel for Geo-Tagging Ladakh in China
Twitter has apologised to a parliamentary panel for showing a northern Himalayan region as part of China, promising to make corrections by month-end, the panel's chief said.
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Amazon Website Launch Trips Over Faulty Swedish
Amazon's long-awaited launch of its Swedish website on Wednesday was marred by glitches and translation errors, including mistaking the Argentinian flag for Sweden's.
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Dr Lal Pathlabs Left Millions of Patients’ Sensitive Data on Public Server: Report
Australia-based security expert Sami Toivonen first discovered this sensitive data last month, and he immediately reported this lapse of security to Dr Lal PathLabs. While the company took the necessary measures to shut down access to the storage bucket, it did not respond to Toivonen. The spreadsheets contained sensitive information like patient n...
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Elon Musk Calls for Breakup of Amazon, Says 'Monopolies Are Wrong'
Telsa CEO Elon Musk on Thursday called for Amazon.com to be broken up, after an author complained on social media about being unable to self-publish a book via the world's largest online retailer.
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Amazon Lawsuit Will Not Delay $10 Billion JEDI Contract: Pentagon
The lawsuit filed by Amazon challenging a $10 billion US military cloud computing contract awarded to Microsoft will not delay implementation of the project, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday
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Amazon Says 'Human Error' Allowed Alexa User to Eavesdrop on Another Home
A user of Amazon's Alexa voice assistant in Germany got access to more than a thousand recordings from another user because of "a human error" by the company.
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"Human Error" At Amazon Allows Alexa User To Eavesdrop On Stranger
A user of Amazon's Alexa voice assistant in Germany got access to more than a thousand recordings from another user because of "a human error" by the company.
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Amazon Product Page Error Leads Some Users to Dog Photos
"Sorry something went wrong on our end," Amazon said on a page some shoppers were sent to after clicking on items from its US home page. A different image of a dog greeted users each time.
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Global Reddit Outage: Thousands Unable To Access Platform, Investigation Underway
The company has acknowledged the issue, identified the cause, implemented a fix, and is now monitoring the situation.
-
Diwali Blackout: How the AWS Outage Crippled Major Apps Across the World
Amazon Web Services (AWS) faced a widespread outage on October 20, disrupting several major platforms, including Apple TV, Reddit, and Snapchat. The outage, lasting nearly 12 hours, coincided with Diwali celebrations in India and affected online businesses running festive campaigns. AWS later attributed the issue to a DNS error in its US-East-1 reg...
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Amazon Cloud Outage: Where It Originated, What Malfunction Reveals
A massive internet outage stemming from errors in Amazon cloud services on Monday morning demonstrated just how many people rely on the corporate behemoth's computational infrastructure everyday.
-
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Launches Automated Reasoning Checks in Preview to Combat AI Hallucinations
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new service at its ongoing re:Invent conference that will help enterprises reduce instances of artificial intelligence (AI) hallucination. Launched on Monday, the Automated Reasoning checks tool is available in preview and can be found within the Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. The company claimed that the tool mathe...
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Amazon Alexa ‘Challenges’ 10-Year-Old Girl to Touch Penny to Exposed Prongs of Live Plug
Amazon's Alexa voice assistant in a bizarre and dangerous 'challenge' suggested a 10-year-old girl should touch exposed prongs of a plugged-in charger with a penny. Amazon later apologised for the incident and said the "error" was fixed.
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Amazon-owned Twitch Says Source Code Exposed in Last Week's Data Breach
Twitch said on Friday that last week's data breach at the live streaming e-sports platform contained documents from its source code, but did not expose sensitive user data.
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PS5, PS5 Digital Edition August 26 India Restock Sold Out in Minutes, Technical Errors Abound
PS5's August 26 India restock, predictably, disappeared in minutes. Moreover, technical issues plagued almost all platforms, including Amazon, Croma, Games The Shop, Prepaid Gamer Card, ShopAtSC and Vijay Sales.
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Twitter Apologises to Parliament Panel for Geo-Tagging Ladakh in China
Twitter has apologised to a parliamentary panel for showing a northern Himalayan region as part of China, promising to make corrections by month-end, the panel's chief said.
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Amazon Website Launch Trips Over Faulty Swedish
Amazon's long-awaited launch of its Swedish website on Wednesday was marred by glitches and translation errors, including mistaking the Argentinian flag for Sweden's.
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Dr Lal Pathlabs Left Millions of Patients’ Sensitive Data on Public Server: Report
Australia-based security expert Sami Toivonen first discovered this sensitive data last month, and he immediately reported this lapse of security to Dr Lal PathLabs. While the company took the necessary measures to shut down access to the storage bucket, it did not respond to Toivonen. The spreadsheets contained sensitive information like patient n...
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Elon Musk Calls for Breakup of Amazon, Says 'Monopolies Are Wrong'
Telsa CEO Elon Musk on Thursday called for Amazon.com to be broken up, after an author complained on social media about being unable to self-publish a book via the world's largest online retailer.
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Amazon Lawsuit Will Not Delay $10 Billion JEDI Contract: Pentagon
The lawsuit filed by Amazon challenging a $10 billion US military cloud computing contract awarded to Microsoft will not delay implementation of the project, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday
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Amazon Says 'Human Error' Allowed Alexa User to Eavesdrop on Another Home
A user of Amazon's Alexa voice assistant in Germany got access to more than a thousand recordings from another user because of "a human error" by the company.
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"Human Error" At Amazon Allows Alexa User To Eavesdrop On Stranger
A user of Amazon's Alexa voice assistant in Germany got access to more than a thousand recordings from another user because of "a human error" by the company.
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Amazon Product Page Error Leads Some Users to Dog Photos
"Sorry something went wrong on our end," Amazon said on a page some shoppers were sent to after clicking on items from its US home page. A different image of a dog greeted users each time.
