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  • Slashdot: Researchers Say New Attack Could Take Down the European Power Grid

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/01/25/0037206/researchers-say-new-attack-could-take-down-the-european-power-grid?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Researchers Say New Attack Could Take Down the European Power Grid Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights significant security vulnerabilities in renewable energy facilities across Central Europe, where unencrypted radio signals are used to control energy supply to the grid. Researchers inadvertently uncovered this…

  • Hacker News: AI Is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers

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    Source URL: https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-illiterate-programmers Source: Hacker News Title: AI Is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a personal account of a software developer’s dependency on AI tools, particularly in programming contexts. It critically examines how reliance on AI can erode foundational coding skills, understanding,…

  • The Register: ChatGPT has a Thursday lie down

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/chatgpt_has_a_thursday_lie/ Source: The Register Title: ChatGPT has a Thursday lie down Feedly Summary: Generative AI needs a break, just like the rest of us, m’kay? OUTAGE Reactivate your brain. ChatGPT has gone down.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent outage of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, highlighting the service’s fragility and…

  • Hacker News: So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center

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    Source URL: https://blog.railway.com/p/data-center-build-part-one Source: Hacker News Title: So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines the challenges and solutions Railway faced while transitioning from relying on the Google Cloud Platform to building their own physical infrastructure for cloud services. This shift aims…

  • Alerts: Microsoft Releases January 2025 Security Updates

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/14/microsoft-releases-january-2025-security-updates Source: Alerts Title: Microsoft Releases January 2025 Security Updates Feedly Summary: Microsoft released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple Microsoft products. A cyber threat actor could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.  CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following and apply necessary updates:…

  • The Register: Azure and M365 MFA outage locks out users across regions

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/azure_m365_outage/ Source: The Register Title: Azure and M365 MFA outage locks out users across regions Feedly Summary: It’s sorted out (mostly), but European users had a manic Monday Microsoft’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Azure and Microsoft 365 (M365) was offline for four hours during Monday’s busy start for European subscribers.… AI Summary and…

  • Hacker News: The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience

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    Source URL: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/12/21/the-canva-outage-another-tale-of-saturation-and-resilience/ Source: Hacker News Title: The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident at Canva, detailed by Brendan Humphries, highlights a series of interconnected failures that led to a significant service outage. Notably, a CDN misconfiguration and an API gateway performance…

  • The Register: Azure networking snafu enters day 2, some services still limping

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/10/microsoft_azure_networking_snafu/ Source: The Register Title: Azure networking snafu enters day 2, some services still limping Feedly Summary: Struggling to connect to the cloud? You’re not alone Microsoft on Friday warned Azure cloud service users may continue to experience “intermittent errors," blaming the problem on a US East regional networking service configuration change.… AI…

  • Cloud Blog: Avoid global outages by partitioning cloud applications to reduce blast radius

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/how-to-partition-cloud-applications-to-avoid-global-outages/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Avoid global outages by partitioning cloud applications to reduce blast radius Feedly Summary: Cloud applications like Google Workspace provide benefits such as collaboration, availability, security, and cost-efficiency. However, for cloud application developers, there’s a fundamental conflict between achieving high availability and the constant evolution of cloud applications. Changes…

  • Cloud Blog: Toward faster incident resolution at Palo Alto Networks with Personalized Service Health

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/personalized-service-health-at-palo-alto-networks/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Toward faster incident resolution at Palo Alto Networks with Personalized Service Health Feedly Summary: Cloud incidents happen. And when they do, it’s incumbent on the cloud service provider to communicate about the incident to impacted customers quickly and effectively — and for the cloud service consumer to use…