The outage that hit Amazon Web Services and took out vital services worldwide was the result of a single failure that cascaded from system to system within Amazon’s sprawling network, according to a post-mortem from company engineers. The series of failures lasted for 15 hours and 32 minutes, Amazon said. Network intelligence company Ookla said...
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Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy
While the company announced job cuts in artificial intelligence, it also expanded plans to replace privacy and risk auditors with more automated systems.
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Trump Pardons Changpeng Zhao, Founder of the Crypto Exchange Binance
Changpeng Zhao, the richest man in crypto, had admitted to money-laundering violations that allowed terrorists and other criminals to move money on Binance.
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Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap
Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.
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Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft
In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.
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Meta Cuts 600 Jobs at A.I. Superintelligence Labs
The layoffs do not affect Meta’s newest A.I. hires, who are in some cases being paid up to hundreds of millions of dollars. The cuts were focused on correcting an earlier hiring spree.
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How to Scan, Edit and Sign PDF Files on Your Phone or Tablet
Free software on your phone or tablet lets you scan, create, edit, annotate and even sign digitized documents on the go.
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Tesla’s Profit Falls 37% After It Cut Car Prices
The company sold more cars but made less money on each one because of discounts and low-interest loans.
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Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps
The makers of BIND, the Internet’s most widely used software for resolving domain names, are warning of two vulnerabilities that allow attackers to poison entire caches of results and send users to malicious destinations that are indistinguishable from the real ones. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-40778 and CVE-2025-40780, stem from a logic error and a...
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(BPRW) Thrivin’ in Color Honors Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a Powerful Episode Featuring Marissa Thomas of For the Breast of Us
(Black PR Wire) MIAMI, FL – In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Black PR Wire’s Thrivin’ in Color podcast spotlights Marissa Thomas, co-founder and CEO of For the Breast of Us, a national community dedicated to empowering wo…