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Meta is spinning off the Pytorch framework into its own AI research foundation
Meta announced on Monday that the Pytorch project will soon spin out from the company’s direct control to become the Pytorch Foundation.
Amazon re-awarded $10 billion NSA cloud contract after Microsoft dispute
Amazon has been re-awarded a $10 billion cloud contract with the NSA after a fight with Microsoft.
Amazon stops accepting new AWS customers in Russia and Belarus
Another important internet player is changing its relationship with Russia due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Sega left one of its European servers wide open
A misconfigured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket contained sensitive information which allowed researchers to arbitrarily upload files to Sega-owned domains and abuse a 250,000-user email list.
AWS had another outage, this time affecting apps like Slack and Hulu
A power outage at an AWS data center caused issues for at least the third time this month.
Amazon explains outage that took out a large chunk of the internet
Amazon has explained the AWS outage that knocked a large part of the internet offline, and promised an easier time tracking those failures.
Amazon Web Services went down and took a bunch of the internet with it
This follows a massive AWS outage in June.
Amazon disables ISIS propaganda website using AWS to host content (updated)
The Islamic State's propaganda arm used Amazon Web Services to host content promoting extremism, according to The Washington Post.
Amazon open-sources its in-house game engine
Amazon is open-sourcing its Lumberyard game engine, making the technology more accessible to everyone.
Amazon buys the secure messaging platform Wickr
Amazon has bought the secure messaging platform Wickr to offer secure messaging. It's meant for AWS, but it raises other possibilities.
Feds charge man with planning to blow up an Amazon data center
The FBI has charged a Texas man with planning to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia and help 'kill' most of the internet.
Parler sues Amazon again, this time in Washington state
Parler may have voluntarily withdrawn its federal lawsuit against Amazon, but the company isn’t ready to give up its legal battle just yet.
Parler withdraws its lawsuit against Amazon for kicking it off AWS
Parler has dropped a lawsuit accusing Amazon of taking the site offline to help Twitter.
Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon
Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of Amazon, announced today that he plans to step down as CEO this year.
Amazon can keep Parler's servers offline, judge rules
Amazon Web Services doesn't have to let Parler back online, a federal judge has ruled.
Amazon says it spent months warning Parler about violent posts
Amazon says it warned Parler officials about the violent threats on its platform nearly two months before the riot at the US Capitol.
Parler sues AWS after Amazon knocks service offline
Parler is suing Amazon Web Services in a last-ditch attempt to get back online.
Amazon Web Services outage subsides after unplugging services for hours
An AWS outage has affected access to many Amazon services, as well as platforms like Roku, Adobe and Flickr that rely on the servers.
Microsoft migrates ‘Minecraft’ from Amazon Web Services to its own Azure
After depending on AWS for years, Mojang plans to migrate Minecraft to Azure later by the end of the 2020.
‘Frontline’ documentary tackles Jeff Bezos and the ‘Amazon Empire’
Amazon is the subject of the latest Frontline documentary, which airs on PBS today at 9PM ET and is probably worth checking out if you have any interest in the tech giant. From the same team that was behind a 2018 Frontline examination of Facebook, Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos charts the rise of Bezos and his company from shipping books from a Washington garage in the mid-'90s through to its current status as a trillion-dollar colossus.