Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes
Single datacenter and just three services taken down by ‘upstream’ power problem, while the rest of a zone and region kept humming
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OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy
French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn’t seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime
OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy
French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn’t seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime
DA: Cop covered bodycam to snap nude prisoners on his iPhone—but other cams caught him
Pennsylvania cop charged with oppression and obstruction.
Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief
Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain
Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round
California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.
Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states
Judge grants restraining order, saying merger "likely to violate antitrust laws."
The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches
The Trump administration is asking the Space Force to do a lot. This will require more launches.
Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims
IC3 says any account claiming to represent it is fake
AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical
An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral
AT&T loses key ruling in bid to stop offering basic phone service in California
AT&T suffers setback but will keep asking court and FCC to preempt state rules.