The week’s PC‑hardware and cloud headlines moved fast enough to give even seasoned system builders whiplash: firmware traces hint at a Ryzen 9000G APU for AM5, fresh (and conflicting) claims of dual‑X3D Ryzen flagships, detailed benchmarking that re‑casts the practical value of X3D variants, a...
General Motors’ headline-making “eyes-off” pledge, OpenAI’s new Atlas browser, a fresh roundup of practical consumer tech tips — and a reminder that the cloud, tape decks and rental cars are all getting a modern makeover: this week’s tech news mixes high-stakes industry pivots with useful...
The week's PC Perspective Podcast (recorded October 22, 2025) folded a fast-moving set of silicon and cloud stories into a single, noise-clearing episode: evidence of a Ryzen 9000G APU appearing in firmware/AGESA traces, fresh chatter about dual‑X3D and next‑gen 3D‑V‑Cache variants, renewed...
The internet blinked hard on October 20, 2025 — and for roughly a workday, huge swathes of the web felt the consequences: login failures, frozen checkout flows, interrupted streaming and gaming sessions, and devices that stopped responding. The outage originated inside Amazon Web Services’...
On Monday morning the internet hiccupped in a way that felt, for many businesses and users, like a global hangover: a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) region suffered a control‑plane failure that produced elevated error rates, DNS resolution problems, and cascading outages across dozens of...
The internet wobbled when a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) region suffered a control‑plane failure, knocking hundreds of high‑profile sites and apps partially or wholly offline and exposing how small, ordinary technical failures in the cloud can produce outsized, global disruption.
Background...
Amazon says the outage that knocked large swathes of the internet offline has been resolved, but the incident exposed brittle dependencies and non‑trivial business risk in modern cloud architectures.
Background / Overview
The disruption began in AWS’s US‑EAST‑1 (Northern Virginia) region and...
The internet hiccupped in a way that exposed both how much power a handful of companies now hold over global connectivity and how brittle that control can be when a core piece of plumbing — in this case a DNS pathway for a managed database service — fails. The October 20 AWS disruption centered...
A wide-ranging outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region on October 20 produced hours of disruption for major consumer apps, enterprise services and several public‑sector portals — and reignited a debate that has been simmering for years: when the bulk of the internet’s infrastructure sits...
A single morning of cascading failures in a major cloud region can feel like an earthquake for the internet — and the October 20 AWS disruption showed how fragile the modern AI stack can be when core cloud control‑plane services wobble.
Background
Cloud computing has quietly reshaped how...
The internet hiccup that began in AWS’s US‑EAST‑1 region on October 20, 2025 briefly turned global commerce, gaming and public services into an emergency room: a DNS-related failure tied to Amazon’s DynamoDB service rippled through hundreds of upstream and downstream systems, knocking popular...
The internet hiccupped in a way no longer tolerable as a mere inconvenience: a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on October 20, 2025 exposed how concentrated cloud dependencies, brittle control‑plane primitives and optimistic architecture defaults can turn a single regional fault into hours...
A sweeping failure in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region on October 20 produced multi‑hour outages that left dozens of high‑profile apps, games, bank portals and even parts of Amazon’s own retail surface intermittently unusable — a reminder that a handful of hyperscale cloud regions now hold...
A sweeping failure in Amazon Web Services’ Northern Virginia hub knocked large swathes of the internet offline for hours on October 20, 2025, disrupting streaming, gaming, messaging, banking and many business platforms while underscoring the systemic risks of concentrating critical...
Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region triggered a multi‑hour, global outage on October 20, 2025, when DNS resolution failures for the DynamoDB API and a cascading impairment inside EC2’s internal networking and health‑monitoring subsystems left thousands of consumer and enterprise apps partially...
A massive Amazon Web Services outage on October 20, 2025 knocked hundreds of major websites and apps offline and left global internet traffic sluggish for hours, exposing the deep concentration of modern online infrastructure in a handful of cloud regions and the cascading fragility that follows...
A sweeping Amazon Web Services outage on Monday knocked large swathes of the internet offline for hours, briefly turning everyday apps and services into a globalized experiment in digital fragility—while social media served up an immediate, merciless chorus of memes and panic.
Background
The...
A massive, multi‑hour disruption traced to Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region knocked dozens of major apps, games and even some UK banking portals offline on October 20, exposing in blunt terms how a single cloud‑provider fault can cascade across the modern internet and everyday business...
A severe outage in Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region on October 20, 2025 brought large swathes of the internet to a halt for hours, knocking down consumer apps, gaming networks, banking portals and even Amazon-owned services as engineers scrambled to restore normal operation.
Overview...
The internet’s architecture tilted on October 20 when a regional Amazon Web Services failure turned into a global reminder: the web now runs on an exceptionally small set of cloud primitives—and when those primitives hiccup, the ripple is enormous. The Fast Company piece arguing that “the AWS...