Iran Strikes On Amazon Data Centers Caused Permanent Loss of Customer Data
Ars Technica reports:
Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
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I never thought I’d ever get scammed by an Amazon counterfeit product in my life 🤦♂️ I suppose with all the many 10’s of thousands of items sold there every day (and all the junk) I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later. I just tested a couple of USB Flash drives that were being sold as 512G, but were in fact only internally 8G, you write past the 8G and try to read those bytes back and you get a whole pile of zero’s back 🤣
Amazon Linux 2027 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC In The AWS Cloud
Yesterday AWS announced the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 as their successor to the current Amazon Linux 2023 in-house distribution. With all the software upgrades and improvements like building packages now with link-time optimizations (LTO), enforcing x86-64-v3 builds, and other changes, I was eager to run some performance benchmarks of Amazon Linux 2023 vs. Amazon Linux 2027 in the EC2 cloud. ⌘ Read more
Amazon Linux 2027 Now in Preview: Powered By Linux 7.1, x86-64-v3 & Built With LTO
AWS announced today the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027. Given the time since Amazon Linux 2023, Amazon Linux 2027 comes with a heavy arsenal of software updates as well as many performance optimizations and other tuning for better running workloads geared for the AWS cloud… ⌘ Read more
FTC Sues Amazon, Accusing the E-Commerce Giant of Misleading Advertisers
The FTC and 22 state attorneys general are suing Amazon, accusing the company of secretly inflating advertising prices through undisclosed changes to its auction system that may have extracted more than $20 billion from advertisers since 2019. “Amazon has millions of advertising customers who were misled into paying significantly hig … ⌘ Read more
Amazon’s HR Lead Uses AI Tool to Write 100,000 Lines of Code - 25 Years After She Last Coded
In an Amazon News blog post, their HR leader describes using AI to write 100,000 lines of code — 25 years after she last coded. “Do you know how empowering it is to realize that after 25 years away from coding, you can actually build again?” First she built a calendar app for her family, … ⌘ Read more
China’s Moonshot In Talks With Microsoft, Amazon, Google Over K3 Revenue Sharing
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: China’s Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet’s Google, that would allow the U.S. cloud giants to host its blockbuster Kimi K3 model, three people familiar with the talks said. Any deal could mark the fi … ⌘ Read more
Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books For AI Training
Last week, 404 Media published a story that revealed an Amazon warehouse where the company scans and destroys thousands of books for AI training data. Today, the publication has released an interview with one of the Amazon employees at the warehouse. “The employee worked at Amazon’s VGT3 warehouse, which is housed in the same … ⌘ Read more
Amazon to Acquire DuckLabs, Adding the Team Behind DuckDB
Amazon has agreed to acquire DuckLabs, bringing the team behind the popular open-source DuckDB database into AWS. “The deal fits Amazon’s broader push to turn S3, its flagship cloud storage service, into a place where customers analyze data rather than just store it,” reports GeekWire. “It gives Amazon a team experienced in building fast, lightweight anal … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Hikes Hardware Prices By 60%, Blaming Memory Shortage
Amazon has raised the prices of its hardware devices by as much as 60%, blaming “significant increases in memory and storage component costs.” TechCrunch reports: The price explosion impacted Fire TVs, Echos, Kindles, and Eeros. One egregious example that’s been cited is that of the Echo Dot, one of Amazon’s cheapest smart speakers, the price of which jumpe … ⌘ Read more
Twitch And Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers’ Content
A class action filed this week accused Amazon’s Twitch gaming service of using video streams to fuel its AI products without licensing or obtaining permission, reports Engadget:
Earlier this month, Twitch Support posted on X that it added an option to opt out of “having your channel content used to train generative AI content m … ⌘ Read more
Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces
Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found that people-search service ClarityCheck left more than 9 million image files accessible in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, despite advertising its reverse-image search as “private and secure.” A separate misconfiguration also exposed email addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information. Wired … ⌘ Read more
Amazon’s Drones Will Soon Deliver to Nearly 500 US Cities and Towns
Amazon says its Prime Air drone delivery service will expand sixfold to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of 2026, including metro areas around Chicago, Syracuse, Cleveland, Atlanta, and Boise. According to Amazon Prime Air vice president David Carbon, the service has already delivered “hundreds of thousands of packages to customer … ⌘ Read more
Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility
alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquire … ⌘ Read more
Amazon’s New User Agreement Seeks To Curb Class-action Suits
Amazon has “reintroduced a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against the online retailer,” reports Bloomberg, “inserting a legal buffer between itself and plaintiffs attorneys that it removed five years ago.”
In an email sent to customers on Friday, the company said a new “arbitration agreement an … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Will Train On Twitch Streamers’ Content By Default, Unless They Opt Out
Twitch will begin allowing Amazon to use streamers’ content to train generative AI models by default, requiring creators to manually opt out if they don’t want their videos and audio included. The decision has drawn backlash from creators, with Twitch’s own product chief acknowledging that an opt-in system would likely … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle: Expect a Negative Cash Flow of $125 Billion Next Year
The Washington Post shared surprising news this week about five top AI companies.
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle “are spending so much on developing AI and delivering it to customers that they’re expected to bleed cash in the coming year, according to a Washington Pos … ⌘ Read more
Amazon’s Zoox Wins First US Approval For Paid Robotaxis Without Human Controls
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Amazon’s Zoox unit has won U.S. approval for limited commercial deployment of its novel steering-wheel-free robotaxis, a first for the autonomous ride industry, the U.S. auto safety agency said on Thursday. Zoox said that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administratio … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Trying to Launch a Global Satellite Cellphone Network In 2028
Amazon has asked the FCC to approve a 5,105-satellite constellation launching in 2028 that would provide global direct-to-cell “voice, messaging, data, and emergency services,” similar to Starlink’s partnership with T-Mobile. The network would use Globalstar spectrum, support future Apple satellite services, and complement Amazon’s existi … ⌘ Read more
Apple Will ‘Watch Everything Burn’ When AI Bubble Bursts
MacRumors interviewed AI critic Ed Zitron, author of the Where’s Your Ed At newsletter and host of the Better Offline podcast, about what could happen to Apple if the costly AI infrastructure boom collapses. Zitron argued that Apple is relatively well insulated because it has spent far less on data centers than rivals such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. He sai … ⌘ Read more
A New Middle Class of Content Creators Is Quietly Quitting the 9-to-5
“The rise of TikTok, Instagram Reels and Amazon storefronts has created a new kind of white-collar exit strategy,” reports Bloomberg. Workers ditch office jobs not to become celebrities, necessarily, “but to piece together an income online through brand deals, affiliate links and highly personal videos documenting everyday life.”
In m … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Cracks Down On Use of AI Images By Sellers
CNBC reports:
Amazon is requiring that third-party sellers label any product images or videos that contain “AI-generated people” after New York recently passed a law mandating greater transparency around “synthetic performers” in ads… The policy directs sellers to tag images [and videos or other graphics on listing pages] with specific metadata keywords before they’re uploade … ⌘ Read more
Are Wars Blurring Lines Between Corporate and National Security?
Subsea cables. Ukrainian power stations. Russian oil refineries. Even airports, water-desalination plants and Amazon data centers.
They’ve all become targets in wartime, notes the Wall Street Journal, and around the world now arguments “are already brewing between companies and governments over new regulations and potential costs.”
In Germany, po … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Blames Piracy Apps With Malware For Killing New Fire Stick Sideloading
Amazon says it is ending sideloading on new Fire Sticks because “apps that facilitate piracy, and other apps, can carry malware,” adding that there is “a good amount of evidence” that sideloaded apps may contain unwanted code or behavior. However, the company did not provide specific examples of Fire Stick users being har … ⌘ Read more
An Amazon Seller Says They Were Offered a Way to Bribe an Amazon Employee
Jack Nekhala had a business selling on Amazon — and in December he received an unusual offer, reports Bloomberg. A woman said she could bribe an Amazon employee “to help him retrieve $90,000 in funds that the e-commerce giant had frozen after suspending him over an alleged violation of review policy.”
Hoping to ingratiate himsel … ⌘ Read more
Linux Foundation & Others Launch “Akrites” To Defend Open-Source Software From AI-Enabled Exploits
The Linux Foundation along with others like Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others have joined forces to launch Akrites. The Akrites project is aiming to help defend critical open-source software from the brisk pace of new AI/LLM-discovered software bugs and vulnerabilities in ensuring that said issues are effectively addressed before they can be exploited by bad actors… ⌘ Read more
Amazon Retaliated Against Workers Who Supported Regulating Data Centers, Complaint Says
Three Amazon employees have filed a civil-rights complaint alleging the company retaliated against them for publicly supporting Seattle regulations on data centers. “The complaint was filed on the workers’ behalf by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an independent group of corporate employees at Amazon … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Drops Sam Altman Movie After Announcing OpenAI Partnership
Amazon MGM has dropped Luca Guadagnino’s nearly completed Sam Altman biopic Artificial and is seeking another distributor for the film. The move comes months after Amazon expanded its multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI, fueling speculation about a potential conflict given the movie’s reportedly unflattering portrayal of Altman … ⌘ Read more
EU To Soon Classify AWS and Azure As Gatekeepers Under DSA
The European Commission is reportedly preparing to provisionally classify Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act, bringing cloud infrastructure under the law’s stricter competition rules for the first time. The designation could require greater interoperability and data portability, making it easier for customers to … ⌘ Read more
AI Will Lead To Labor Shortages, Bezos Says In Optimistic Talk
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Artificial Intelligence will lead to labour shortages, not the replacement of humans, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted in a highly optimistic appearance at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris on Wednesday. Bezos put forward a rosy vision of how technology will help humanity, speaking about projec … ⌘ Read more
Amazon CEO’s Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models
The Wall Street Journal reports:
The Trump administration’s decision to halt all foreign use of Anthropic’s most capable AI models was prompted by conversations between Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy and U.S. officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, people familiar with the matter said.
Researchers at Am … ⌘ Read more
Anzeige: Smartwatch Huawei Watch Fit 5 zum Tiefpreis bei Amazon
Die Smartwatch Huawei Watch Fit 5 mit hellem AMOLED-Display, GPS und Sturzerkennung gibt es bei Amazon zum reduzierten Preis. ( Smartwatch, Huawei)
Anzeige: DJI Neo 2-Drohne für Einsteiger jetzt zum bisherigen Amazon-Tiefstpreis rund 210 Euro
DJI Neo 2, DJI Neo 2 Kombo-Paket und die Profi-Variante DJI Avata mit Zubehör bei Amazon jetzt günstiger denn je. ( Drohne, 4K)
Anzeige: Curved-Gaming-Monitor mit 32 Zoll und 180 Hz unter 180 Euro
Amazon verkauft einen 32 Zoll großen Curved-Gaming-Monitor von Odys zum niedrigsten Preis des Jahres. ( TV & Monitore, Display)
Anzeige: In-Ear-Kopfhörer JBL Tune Beam 2 reduziert bei Amazon
Die In-Ear-Kopfhörer JBL Tune Beam 2 mit adaptivem ANC, Spatial Audio und bis zu 48 Stunden Wiedergabe gibt es bei Amazon zum Angebotspreis. ( Kopfhörer, Audio/Video)
Anzeige: Dreame D20 Pro Plus Saugroboter nur noch kurze Zeit zum Tiefstpreis
Wer einen Saugroboter sucht, findet bei Amazon einen starken Deal: Der Dreame D20 Pro Plus ist aktuell noch zum Tiefstpreis erhältlich. ( Technik/Hardware, Saugroboter)
Anzeige: Beliebter Akku-Handstaubsauger von Einhell zum neuen Amazon-Bestpreis rund 48 Euro
Power X-Change-System, drei Düsen und zwei Saugrohre im Einhell Akku-Handstaubsauger - jetzt dank Coupon zum neuen Amazon-Bestpreis. ( Technik/Hardware, Amazon)
Anzeige: Soundbar mit Subwoofer und 460 W zum Tiefpreis bei Amazon
Amazon hat eine Soundbar mit Subwoofer im Angebot, die mit 5.1.2 Kanälen, 460 W und Dolby Atmos Surround-Sound wie im Kino erzeugt. ( Soundbar, Dolby Atmos)
The Boys Star Couldn’t Stop Crying After Learning His Season 5 Ending
Jack Quaid broke down after discovering his character’s ending in The Boys Season 5 finale. For context, Quaid stars as Hugh “Hughie” Campbell in Amazon Prime Video’s series. He’s the de facto lead and the emotional core of the ragtag vigilante group. Jack Quaid details his emotional reaction to his The Boys Season 5 ending […]
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Anzeige: Smarte Innenraumkamera im 2er-Pack noch kurzzeitig unter 40 Euro bei Amazon
Die Ezviz-Innenraumkamera bietet 360°-Sicht und Nachtsicht. Aktuell ist die smarte WLAN-Kamera im Doppelpack wieder unter 40 Euro zu haben. ( Technik/Hardware, Amazon)
Anzeige: Schnelle M.2-SSD mit 1 TByte zum Jahresbestpreis bei Amazon
Die Lexar Ares Pro M.2 erreicht extrem hohe Übertragungsgeschwindigkeiten. Bei Amazon ist sie zum niedrigsten Preis des Jahres verfügbar. ( Solid State Drive, Speichermedien)
Anzeige: Zur WM schnellladen - nur 1,58 Euro pro USB-C-Kabel
Bei Amazon gibt es das USB-C-Ladekabel-Set von Lisen wieder zum Tiefstpreis von nur 1,58 Euro pro Kabel. Doch das Angebot gilt nur bis Sonntag, 14. Juni, um Mitternacht. ( USB PD, Amazon)
Anzeige: WLAN-Repeater mit Wi-Fi 7 zum Aktionspreis bei Amazon
Einen WLAN-Repeater von TP-Link mit Wi-Fi 7, MLO, Gigabit-LAN und bis zu 3.600 MBit/s gibt es bei Amazon zum reduzierten Preis. ( TP-Link, WLAN)
Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-11/amazon-says-its-data-centers-use-2-5-billion-gallons-of-water
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491253
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Anzeige: Nr. 1 bei Amazon - Bestseller-Luftpumpe mit Akku jetzt nur noch rund 23 Euro
Die elektrische Luftpumpe mit Reifendrucksensor und 4000-mAh-Akku ist Bestseller bei Amazon und jetzt zum kleinen Preis verfügbar. ( Technik/Hardware, Amazon)
Anzeige: Samsung TV mit 65 Zoll und 4K zur WM bei Amazon zum neuen Tiefstpreis sichern
Zum WM-Start ist einer der beliebtesten Fernseher mit 65 Zoll bei Amazon zum neuen Tiefstpreis erhältlich. So wird die WM zum unvergesslichen Erlebnis. ( TV & Monitore, Samsung)
Homelander & Starlight Make a Surprising Return After The Boys Finale
The Boys’ Homelander, Starlight, and Black Noir are making a return weeks after the Amazon Prime Video series’ finale. However, it’s not how most fans would’ve expected. Call of Duty: Mobile brings in Homelander and more from The Boys The Boys is collaborating with Call of Duty: Mobile for the game’s Season 5: Revenge update. […]
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The Girlfriend Season 2 Is Happening at Amazon MGM but There’s a Twist
The Girlfriend will reportedly receive a Season 2, but with a twist. Amazon MGM Studios is developing the follow-up, whose predecessor became a Prime Video hit last year. Amazon MGM is developing The Girlfriend follow-up The Boyfriend The Boyfriend is reportedly in development over at Amazon MGM Studios. However, this is not a Season 2 […]
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Anzeige: Philips Sonicare DiamondClean 9000 jetzt zum neuen Amazon-Bestpreis
Schalltechnologie, App-Coaching und Drucksensor im Doppelpack von Philips Sonicare - jetzt bei Amazon so günstig wie nie. ( Technik/Hardware, Philips)
Anzeige: Akku-Grasschere mit Strauchmesser für nur 29,99 Euro bei Amazon
Amazon hat eine Akku-Grasschere im Angebot, mit der Gartenbesitzer mühelos ihren Rasen trimmen oder Sträucher und Hecken stutzen können. ( Technik/Hardware)