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Nobody else wanted to migrate myriad ageing HP-Unix, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, VMware ESXi, Windows, MWG-MLOS, and NetApp ONTAP applications off Fujitsu data centres?
Hackers "enumerated and accessed objects within S3 buckets, terminated production EC2 and RDS instances, and decrypted application keys."
Power and connectivity issues in the Middle East region will last at least hours, and critical data needs to be elsewhere, says Amazon Web Services.
The open-source world is no stranger to the "rug pull." But when Redis, the de facto standard for in-memory data caching, swapped its permissive license for a restrictive commercial one in early 2024, the shockwaves reached every corner of the technology world, including those at hyperscale clouds. Madelyn
"An engineer was using a role with broader permissions than expected—a user access control issue, not an AI autonomy issue."
"The questions you want to ask of this data are ‘show me the nearest neighbour, show me the twice-removed nearest neighbours.’ Trying to do that in a classic relational database is a very difficult problem to solve, both from an efficiency point of view, but also just... storage."