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On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 (1 year + 1 week ago), Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
"That is the whole idea of the scam. Why on earth do we need
security updates? Do you update your screwdriver each week?"

Channel 4+1 on TV in the British Isles broadcast shortly before 10:14p.m. tonight that a "fake" "security" "update" tricked users of an encrypted application to disclose messages which they used to encrypt. This TV documentary is called "Operation Dark Phone Murder by Text".
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"Amazon says underlying problems fixed, now the blame game begins
published at 19:23
19:23

Lily Jamali
North America technology correspondent

[. . .]

Even after CrowdStrike had fixed the issue, the airline said it had to=20 manually reset 40,000 servers, leading to major flight delays over=20
several days."
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"Amazon Web Services outages reported in the last 24 hours
Possibly related to issues at Amazon Web Services
9628 [i.e. a peak on a chart's Y axis]"
said
HTTPS://Downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services
today.

Amazon did not fix the underlying problem of replacing known old solutions=
=20
with newly added mistakes.

I remember that applications used not need the Internet. I remember that=20 applications used to not crash, even when the Internet would not be=20 satisfactory.

I remember that most websites used not be unreliably concentrated in three=
=20
companies which many a person objects to. Instead I remember that the=20
number that is three used to be important for good old triply modular=20 redundancy!

"Amazon says underlying problems fixed, now the blame game begins
published at 19:23
19:23

Lily Jamali
North America technology correspondent

[. . .]

Given how integrated these systems are, determining fault isn't always=20 straightforward."

Tight coupling is straightforwardly intrepretable as a fault! Cf. HTTPS://DL.ACM.org/action/doSearch?AllField=3D%22tight+coupling%22+%22code+= smell%22

"Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
The cause of the AWS outage is currently unclear.

by=20
Jess Weatherbed


Updated Oct 20, 2025, 5:41 PM GMT+1

[. . .]

The AWS dashboard first reported issues affecting the US-EAST-1 Region=20
at 3:11AM ET, and eventually said that =E2=80=9CThe underlying DNS issue ha=
s been=20
fully mitigated.=E2=80=9D"

I remember having basically no problem when a DNS crashed as I could use=20
IP addresses. Those were the days!
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2025, I wrote:
"[. . .]

"Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
The cause of the AWS outage is currently unclear.

by=20
Jess Weatherbed


Updated Oct 20, 2025, 5:41 PM GMT+1

[. . .]

The AWS dashboard first reported issues affecting the US-EAST-1 Region=20
at 3:11AM ET, and eventually said that =E2=80=9CThe underlying DNS issue ha=
s been=20
fully mitigated.=E2=80=9D"
[said HTTPS://WWW.TheVerge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-off= line

=2E . .]"

Today, HTTPS://WWW.EireBheo.Ie/news/nuacht/1923658/beidh-diospoireacht-uachtaranac= hta-deiridh-a-reachtail-ag-rte-agus-iarrthoiri-ag-teacht-salach-ar-a-cheile= -faoi-thuairimi-iosmheid-nua.html
is showing an advertisement.

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[. . .]

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says this advertisement.
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A few seconds ago,
HTTPS://Downdetector.com/status/windows-azure
published:
"User reports indicate possible problems at Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform operated by Microsoft. Azure=
=20
offers both 'platform as a service' (PaaS) and 'infrastructure as a=20
service' cloud solutions.
[. . .]
Microsoft Azure outages reported in the last 24 hours
[A peak of 18,506 at 4:16p.m. yesterday . . .]
This chart shows a view of problem reports submitted in the past 24 hours=
=20
compared to the typical volume of reports by time of day. It is common for=
=20
some problems to be reported throughout the day. Downdetector only reports=
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an incident when the number of problem reports is significantly higher=20
than the typical volume for that time of day. Visit the Downdetector=20 Methodology page to learn more about how Downdetector collects status=20 information and detects problems.
[. . .]
Prateek Dubey
16 hours ago
This outage is unbelievable=E2=80=94it=E2=80=99s impacting far more than ju=
st a single=20
Azure Availability Zone or Region. I=E2=80=99m seriously starting to consid= er=20
moving back to on-premises or hybrid cloud solutions. Events like this=20
make you realize how critical it is to have alternatives when even the=20 biggest cloud platforms face such widespread disruptions.

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spiritamokk=20
21 days ago
Most of the Microsoft services including Azure, Teams, Office365 in=20
Eastern US are completely down. This is very bad

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Irish Celtic=20
15 hours ago
Everyone is surprised? What do you expect when you put thousands of=20
systems into one platform. This entire cloud idea is going back to the=20 mainframe structure that failed and this will fail again for the same=20 reasons.

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