Oct 26th 2025
This Week in Tech 1055
The Garden of Thorns
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
AWS Outage Exposes Our Cloud Dependency
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
Guests:
Richard Campbell,
Doc Rock
When a major Amazon cloud outage brings everything from smart mattresses to Snapchat grinding to a halt, what does it reveal about our digital fragility—and are we trusting the cloud a little too much?
- A Single Point of Failure Triggered the Amazon Outage Affecting Million
- Pluralistic: The mad king’s digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025)
- Trump and Xi will ‘consummate’ TikTok deal on Thursday, treasury secretary says
- 3,000 YouTube Videos Exposed as Malware Traps in Massive Ghost Network Operation
- Can YouTube Replace 'Traditional' TV?
- All the implications of F1's game-changing TV move
- Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
- Browser Promising Privacy Protection Contains Malware-Like Features, Routes Traffic Through China
- iCloud data helps crack NBA and mob poker scheme
- Rubbish IT systems cost the US at least $40bn during Covid: study
- Counter-Strike cosmetics economy loses nearly $2 billion in value overnight
- GM to introduce eyes-off, hands-off driving system in 2028
- WordPress co-founder files countersuit against WP Engine over trademark violations
- a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
- Bill Gates-Backed 345 MWe Advanced Nuclear Reactor Secures Crucial US Approval
- Programmer Gets Doom Running On a Space Satellite
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Links
- A Single Point of Failure Triggered the Amazon Outage Affecting Million - Slashdot
- Pluralistic: The mad king’s digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- Trump and Xi will ‘consummate’ TikTok deal on Thursday, treasury secretary says
- 3,000 YouTube Videos Exposed as Malware Traps in Massive Ghost Network Operation
- Can YouTube Replace 'Traditional' TV? - Slashdot
- All the implications of F1's game-changing TV move
- Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
- Browser Promising Privacy Protection Contains Malware-Like Features, Routes Traffic Through China - Slashdot
- iCloud data helps crack NBA and mob poker scheme
- Rubbish IT systems cost the US at least $40bn during Covid: study
- Counter-Strike cosmetics economy loses nearly $2 billion in value overnight
- GM to introduce eyes-off, hands-off driving system in 2028 | TechCrunch
- WordPress co-founder files countersuit against WP Engine over trademark violations
- a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
- Bill Gates-Backed 345 MWe Advanced Nuclear Reactor Secures Crucial US Approval - Slashdot
- Programmer Gets Doom Running On a Space Satellite - Slashdot
- People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help