Internet still struggling after mammoth Amazon outage
Millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa in a global outage. ⌘ Read more

Internet still struggling after mammoth Amazon outage
Millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa in a global outage. ⌘ Read more

A seed bank in England marks 25 years of preserving the world’s plant diversity
Deep underground beneath the Sussex countryside in southern England, millions of seeds are kept frozen in a vault built to withstand fire, flooding, and any other disaster. ⌘ Read more

Cloud services outage knocks out websites globally
Potentially millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa in a global outage. ⌘ Read more

Cloud services outage knocks out websites globally
Potentially millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa. ⌘ Read more

Cloud services outage knocks out websites globally
Potentially millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa. ⌘ Read more

Trump’s immigration crackdown weighs heavy on the US labor market
PAUL WISEMAN and GISELA SALOMON,  Reporters  -

_Stephan: Dictator Trump’s ignorance and nastiness, expressed daily in his ongoing fascist Republican Party coup, is severely impacting the U.S. labor market and the wellbeing of millions, including you and what you have to pay for groceries, clothes, and anything else made overseas, as this article describes. Did you think this moron even knows tha … ⌘ Read more

Cloud services outage knocks out websites globally
Potentially millions of users have been left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa. ⌘ Read more

Worldwide AWS outage affects hundreds of millions ⌘ Read more

Millions of US Families Could Soon Go Hungry Thanks to Trump-GOP Government Shutdown
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: As the organizational programs and agencies that have maintained the wellbeing of the United States are being dismantled by dictator Trump and his Republican Congress, funds are being cut, the healthcare system is in chaos, public education is becoming a disaster, and on and on. But now these MAGAT mo … ⌘ Read more

MAGA Media Wages Asymmetric Warfare
PRRI Research Staff,    -  PRRI

_Stephan: As you can see from the chart that heads this research report, in spite of the millions who turned out for the nonviolent “No Kings” demonstrations, there are still large number of Americans, particularly MAGAT supporters, i.e., Republican voters, who still do not comprehend what is happening to the United States, or maybe they are so racist, resentful, and ignorant they don;t care of support what Trump, his adm … ⌘ Read more

Scaling Postgres to the next level at OpenAI
TIL OpenAI uses (used?) one primary write instance for their PostgreSQL cluster with dozens of read replicas. This powers the core ChatGPT service which has hundreds of millions of users and, needless to say, is a critical backbone to it.

The talk implies they shard now, but the whole video emphasises all the optimizations they did in order to support their workload through a single primary. It isn’t mentioned at what time they switched to sharding, but it’s heavily implied that … ⌘ Read more

This clear scale shows how American democracy is in terminal decline
Martina Moneke,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story | Common Dreams

_Stephan: Day by day, as I watch the dismantlement of our democracy, and see aspiring dictator Trump’s revenge arrests and court cases against former colleagues, I realize that nothing is going to stop this except tens of millions of Americans nonviolently out in the street on Saturday, and every Saturday thereafter, and … ⌘ Read more

Nearly 900 mn poor people exposed to climate shocks, UN warns
Nearly 80% of the world’s poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a “double and deeply unequal burden,” the United Nations warned Friday. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Immersive Esports: The Technology Behind Competitive Gaming
Esports has outgrown local tournaments and now runs on global platforms linking millions of players and fans, powered by immersive esports technology. Communities form around games, teams, and streamers, blending competition, entertainment, and social connection. At this scale, reliability and low latency are non-negotiable to keep matches fair and audiences engaged during spikes.

High-spe … ⌘ Read more

Dinosaur fossil rewrites the story of how sauropods got long necks
A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ long necks began earlier than previously thought ⌘ Read more

CO2 levels in Earth’s atmosphere jumped by a record amount in 2024
The global average concentration of CO2 surged by 3.5 parts per million to reach 423.9 ppm last year, fuelling worries that the planet’s ability to soak up excess carbon is weakening ⌘ Read more

Analysis of 4.4-million-year-old ankle exposes how earliest ancestors moved and evolved
For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to understand the transition from our earliest ancestors to modern humans. ⌘ Read more

GOP spreads increasingly desperate and dangerous lies to shirk blame for their shutdown
Emily Singer,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: Today I listened to one Republican congress member after another claiming that the coming Saturday “No King” rallies are really “Hate America” rallies, and I thought how cowardly do you have to be to say something that dishonest and stupid about rallies that will involve millions of American who actu … ⌘ Read more

France : un squatteur et 65 millions d’otages
La situation actuellement en France est complètement coincée. Au fur et à mesure que le temps passe, plusieurs choses se mettent en place avec une quasi-impossibilité de retour en arrière. D’un côté, nous avons un Macron adulescent dont l’ego surdimensionné ne le laissera jamais démissionner. Cet ego étant plus important que tout le reste, il […] ⌘ Read more

Americans are losing millions to scammers at crypto ATMs
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Retired Finnish intelligence detective spent tens of millions from lottery winnings to fight Russian espionage | Article in Ukrainian |Yle Novyny ⌘ Read more

Lunduke Journal Grew to Over 11 Million Views in September
While the Big Tech-sponsored “Tech News” appears to be buying “views”. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke Journal Had Over 11 Million Views in September
September was an absolutely wild month for The Lunduke Journal. ⌘ Read more

Zelensky: If Putin wants to seize eastern Ukraine, he has to bury million of his soldiers ⌘ Read more

Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $966 million in latest talc cancer case | CNN Business ⌘ Read more

Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $966 million after jury finds company liable in talc cancer case ⌘ Read more

Russia loses one million tons of fuel in September alone as strikes and sanctions converge ⌘ Read more

Relief for fruit producers as SA declared free from brown rugose virus
More than a year since South Australia’s $230 million tomato and capsicum sector was plunged into turmoil by the first discovery of the tomato brown rugose fruit virus in Australia, the state has been declared free of the exotic disease. ⌘ Read more

Ukraine disables 40% of one of Russia’s largest oil refineries processing 17.5 million tons annually ⌘ Read more

Éoliennes, taxes anti-Shein, FiDA : profiteurs de connivence
Un article de Henry Bonner Des économistes ou chefs d’entreprises promettent plus de croissance à l’avenir, comme solution aux déficits. Ainsi, le patron des E. Leclerc affirme par exemple : « Il faut investir pour notre croissance : l’éducation, les nouvelles mobilités, la transition énergétique, la transition numérique, la décarbonation, les 2,5 millions de logements sociaux à construire… » […] ⌘ Read more

Millions of buildings at risk from sea level rise, analysis finds
Sea level rise could put more than 100 million buildings across the Global South at risk of regular flooding if fossil fuel emissions are not curbed quickly, according to a new McGill-led study published in npj Urban Sustainability. ⌘ Read more

Is Mainstream Tech News Dead?
Millions of “Followers”, but struggle to get a single “Like”? ⌘ Read more

Face-off: What Kmart’s illegal surveillance means for shoppers
If you’re one of the 8 million or so Australians who shop at Kmart every year, chances are you were being watched. ⌘ Read more

Wineries and distillers not happy about recycling scheme expansion
Producers in Western Australia’s premier wine region say the state government’s expanded bottle recycling scheme is set to cost them millions of dollars. ⌘ Read more

I think I understand now. Americans do not go camping, we do recreational activities. I don’t think campers are a thing here, but RVs (Recreational Vehicles) are. That’s why it would never cross my mind to get anything with fabric, that folds. No mate, we get a house on wheels, with a million miles engine. 🤣

Other than that, it looks nice!

Russia nears 1 million war casualties in Ukraine, study finds | CNN ⌘ Read more

Putin’s ‘disregard’ for troops highlighted as Russian losses approach 1 million, CSIS report shows ⌘ Read more

“AI” coding chatbot funded by Microsoft were Actually Indians
London-based Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its “AI-powered” app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said to be around 700 of them, pretending to be artificial intelligence. The startup, which raised over $445 million from investors including Microsoft and the Qatar Investm … ⌘ Read more

Sony’s NEWS UNIX workstations
The first prototype was ready in just six months. By October 1986, the project was announced, and in January 1987, the first NEWS workstation, the NWS 800 series, officially launched. It ran 4.2BSD UNIX and featured a Motorola 68020 CPU. Its performance rivaled that of traditional super minicomputers, but with a dramatically lower price point ranging from ¥950,000 to ¥2.75 million (approximately $6,555 to $18,975 USD in 1987). Competing UNIX workstations typically cost clo … ⌘ Read more

70-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Embryo Found Perfectly Preserved Inside Fossilized Egg in Chinese Museum. ⌘ Read more

Texas Law Now Requires Age Verification for App Stores
In Unrelated News: Nearly 30 Million user accounts leaked in two massive data breaches. ⌘ Read more

10 Unbelievably Bizarre Blunders
Mistakes are a universal part of life. Some are harmless slip-ups we laugh off, others spiral into chaos, triggering consequences we never imagined. A missed keystroke might cost a fortune. A wrong turn could lead to marriage with the wrong bride. A simple distraction might accidentally win someone $10 million. Whether they spark panic, legal […]

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** The Misconfigured Magnet: How Public Buckets Exposed Millions of User Files **

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[Continue reading on InfoSec Write-ups »](https://infosecwriteups.com/the-misconfigured-magnet-how-public-buck … ⌘ Read more

$1 Million Tax Payer Grant for “Gender Inclusive Open Source”
A cancelled grant, worth a million bucks, for Oregon State University to create “best practices for fixing gender-bias bugs”. ⌘ Read more

Introducing Docker Hardened Images: Secure, Minimal, and Ready for Production
From the start, Docker has focused on enabling developers to build, share, and run software efficiently and securely. Today, Docker Hub powers software delivery at a global scale, with over 14 million images and more than 11 billion pulls each month. That scale gives us a unique vantage point into how modern software is built… ⌘ Read more

Millions of Records Exposed via SQL Injection in a Tamil Nadu Government Portal ⌘ Read more

Coinbase Hacker Demands $20 Million Dollar Ransom
In filing, Coinbase says damages may be upward of $400 Million. ⌘ Read more

E-COM: the $40 million USPS project to send email on paper
How do you get email to the folks without computers? What if the Post Office printed out email, stamped it, dropped it in folks’ mailboxes along with the rest of their mail, and saved the USPS once and for all? And so in 1982 E-COM was born—and, inadvertently, helped coin the term “e-mail.” ↫ Justin Duke The implementation of E-COM was awesome. You’d enter the messages on your computer, send it to the post office usi … ⌘ Read more

The Human Firewall: Why Your Employees Are Both Your Greatest Vulnerability and Asset

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In the high-stakes world of cybersecurity, organizations invest millions in sophisticated technologic … ⌘ Read more