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Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong

3 months 3 weeks ago
AI wasn't the cause, and multi-cloud is for rubes

Column  AWS put out a hefty analysis of its October 20 outage, and it's apparently written in a continuing stream of consciousness before the Red Bull wore off and the author passed out after 36 straight hours of writing.…

Corey Quinn

Chatbots parrot Putin's propaganda about the illegal invasion of Ukraine

3 months 3 weeks ago
Fake views from Moscow's pet media outlets appear in about one in five responses

Popular chatbots powered by large language models cited links to Russian state-attributed sources in up to a quarter of answers about the war in Ukraine, raising fresh questions over whether AI risks undermining efforts to enforce sanctions on Moscow-backed media.…

Thomas Claburn