AWS wobbles in US East region causing widespread outages [Wed Dec 8 2021]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 8 December 2021 ***************************************************************** AWS wobbles in US East region causing widespread outages 'We have identified the root cause and we are actively working towards recovery' ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * AWS wobbles in US East region causing widespread outages 'We have identified the root cause and we are actively working towards recovery' * Thought NHS Digital's wind-down meant it would stop writing cheques? Silly you. It's gone on an IT buying spree £37m signed up for soon-to-be-defunct non-dept public body * Blogfight! Blogfight! Blogfight! Fastly flames Cloudflare's serverless stats We're faster than you. No you're not. Are too. No way! Yes way … can someone take this pair to the principal's office? * Tech Bro CEO lays off 900 people in Zoom call and makes himself the victim 'The last time I did this, I cried' says Better.com CEO Vishal Garg On-Prem * Facebook slapped with an eyepopping $150B lawsuit for spreading hate speech against Rohingya refugees Lawsuit claims social media giant's algos helped Myanmar military crackdown on the Rohingya * Power management IC shortage holding cars, laptops, hostage Couple of cents-worth of kit causing big problems for the year to come * The (IT capacity) testing times we live in: Survey's in – and my, how some of you have grown Only one respondent 'noticeably reduced the capacity of their systems' * Samsung splits itself in two... internally: Semiconductor biz and then everything else Smartphones and consumer electronics now under one roof * Why we will not have a unified HPC and AI software environment, ever No good reason for vendors to play ball with each other * The nub of the issue: Has your ThinkPad's TrackPoint gone TITSUP*? You aren't alone A post-Halloween spooktacular as users face the 'Ghost in the Machine' * Questions over timetable slippage in UK taxman's £7bn 'cliff edge' IT procurement Watchdog says tenders to be published by September – but HMRC procurement show that's not going to plan Security * Cryptominers aren't just a headache – they're a big neon sign that Bad Things are on your network So says Sophos in warning about Tor2Mine Monero malware * Foreign Office IT chaos: Shocking testimony reveals poor tech support hindered Afghan evac attempts Contributed to dysfunction as diplomats and soldiers struggled to get Afghan helpers out of reach of Taliban * Microsoft wins court approval to take over sites run by Chinese crime gang 'Nickel' back in trouble for trying to lift secrets, often by exploiting Microsoft snafus * LINE Pay leaks around 133,000 users' data to GitHub, of all places Someone just accidentally put it there, says the messaging service company Software * NASA installs a new and improved algorithm to better track near-Earth asteroids Nearly 20 year-old software used to protect humanity gets an upgrade * MongoDB logs 50% hike in Q4 sales, beats analysts forecasts for next quarter Yet losses grow at NoSQL database biz * Rusty Linux kernel draws closer with new patch adding support for Rust as second language Experimental – but good enough to start writing 'drivers and other modules' * Self-driving towards an IPO? Intel unveils plans for Mobileye offering Chipzilla to keep its hands on the wheel Offbeat * Hubble Space Telescope restored to service: No repeat of those missing messages, but here's a software patch anyway They went full science. Always go full science * Shocking: UK electricity tariffs are among world's most expensive And the cheapest? Libya * Indian government committee slams 'gross misuse' of internet shutdowns – even in Kashmir Officials use them for mundane matters, not big emergencies as laws intend ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2021 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: