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TWiT 1055: The Garden of Thorns - AWS Outage Exposes Our Cloud Dependency

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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

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Richard Campbell and Doc Rock

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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

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Richard Campbell and Doc Rock

Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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