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Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones ‘Hard Down’ In Bahrain and Dubai

Today at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

Iranian strikes have reportedly knocked out key AWS availability zones in Bahrain and Dubai, leaving parts of both regions effectively offline for an extended period and forcing Amazon to urge teams and customers to shift workloads elsewhere. “These two regions continue to be impaired, and services should not expect to be operating with normal levels of redundancy and resiliency,” an internal...

Microsoft To Invest $10 Billion In Japan For AI, Cyber Defense Expansion

Today at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

Microsoft plans to invest $10 billion in Japan from 2026 to 2029 to expand AI infrastructure, boost local cloud capacity, train 1 million engineers and developers, and deepen cybersecurity cooperation with the Japanese government. Reuters reports: The investment includes the training of 1 million engineers and developers by 2030, Microsoft said, which was unveiled during a visit to Tokyo by...

Netflix Must Refund Customers For Years of Price Hikes, Italian Court Rules

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

A Rome court ruled that several Netflix price hikes in Italy were unlawful because the company’s contracts didn’t adequately explain or justify future pricing changes. As a result, Netflix has been ordered to issue refunds that could total roughly 500 euros for some long-term subscribers. Ars Technica reports: The lawsuit was brought by Italian consumer advocacy group Movimento Consumatori,...

How iPhones Found Their Way Into Space

Yesterday at 22:26 PM, via New York Times

The astronauts traveling in the Artemis II spacecraft were allowed to bring smartphones with them. Sadly, they can’t connect to the internet.

Fan Fiction Website AO3 Exits Beta After 17 Years

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

Archive of Our Own (AO3) is officially dropping its “beta” label after 17 years. The Organization for Transformative Works, the nonprofit behind the fanfiction site, said the site will keep evolving with new improvements even though it’s no longer technically in beta. “As the AO3 software has been stable for a long time, the change is mostly cosmetic and does not indicate that everything is...

Tech Companies Are Trying To Neuter Colorado’s Landmark Right-to-Repair Law

Yesterday at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Today at a hearing of the Colorado Senate Business, Labor, and Technology committee, lawmakers voted unanimously to move Colorado state bill SB26-090 — titled Exempt Critical Infrastructure from Right to Repair — out of committee and into the state senate and house for a vote. The bill modifies Colorado’s Consumer Right to Repair Digital...

Footage captured by plane passenger shows Artemis II launch from air – video

Yesterday at 20:10 PM, via The Guardian

Phone footage taken by a plane passenger captured the moment Nasa’s Artemis II mission launched on Wednesday evening, carrying astronauts to the moon for the first time in almost 54 years. It is the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972 that humans have left lower Earth orbit

Artemis II astronauts pass 100,000 miles from Earth on voyage to the moon

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College Student, Cat Meme Helped Crack Massive Botnet Case

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

The Wall Street Journal shares the “wild behind-the-scenes story” of how the world’s largest and most destructive botnet was uncovered and taken down, writes Slashdot reader sturgeon. “At times, the network known as Kimwolf included more than a million compromised home Android devices and digital photo frames — enough DDoS firepower to disrupt internet traffic across the U.S. and beyond.” From...

Penalties Stack Up As AI Spreads Through the Legal System

Yesterday at 19:00 PM, via Slashdot

Tony Isaac shares a report from NPR: When it comes to using AI, it seems some lawyers just can’t help themselves. Last year saw a rapid increase in court sanctions against attorneys for filing briefs containing errors generated by artificial intelligence tools. The most prominent case was that of the lawyers for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who were fined $3,000 each for filing briefs containing...

XRP & Ethereum Trade Sideways; Holders Flock to BlockDAG for Over 760x Gains

Yesterday at 19:00 PM, via Tech Financials

The crypto market is sending mixed signals as traders keep an eye on both established coins and new tokens. The latest XRP price prediction shows that if it can push above $1.40, we might see a bullish upswing, but if it struggles, support levels around $1.25 and even $1.00 could come into play. At the […]

Fly me to the moon – or at least to Luton | Brief letters

Yesterday at 18:08 PM, via The Guardian

The capabilities of man | Artemis II mission | Unnecessary descriptors | Uses for mint sauce | Easter wordsearch

Artemis II has successfully taken off to begin its journey to the far side of the moon (Report, 2 April). Meanwhile, this bank holiday, our grandson has been unable to travel by train from Manchester to Luton to support Peterborough United without multiple changes and replacement...

Half of Planned US Data Center Builds Have Been Delayed or Canceled

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via Slashdot

Despite hundreds of billions of dollars in investment, nearly half of planned U.S. data center projects are being delayed or canceled. “One major reason behind these setbacks is the availability of key electrical components — such as transformers, switchgear, and batteries — that are used both at data center sites and outside of them,” reports Tom’s Hardware. “Meanwhile, grid infrastructure is...

Perplexity’s ‘Incognito Mode’ Is a ‘Sham,’ Lawsuit Says

Yesterday at 17:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Perplexity’s AI search engine encourages users to go deeper with their prompts by engaging in chat sessions that a lawsuit has alleged are often shared in their entirety with Google and Meta without users’ knowledge or consent. “This happened to every user regardless of whether or not they signed up for a Perplexity account,” the lawsuit...

‘You look beautiful’: Artemis II crew makes contact from space – video

Yesterday at 15:51 PM, via The Guardian

The four astronauts on Nasa’s lunar mission have spoken about their experience of the journey so far via video. Their Orion capsules is approaching 100,000 miles from Earth as it heads towards the moon, putting them on track to reach the farthest distance humans have ever travelled in space

Artemis II astronauts approach 100,000 miles from Earth on voyage to the moon

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