Amazon Web Services confirmed that a 15-hour global outage that crippled more than 3,500 organizations stemmed from a single race condition bug in its DynamoDB DNS management system, according to reporting by Dan Goodin for Ars Technica. The software flaw caused conflicting DNS updates between two components, known as “Enactors,” ultimately deleting active endpoint plans and isolating entire regions. “All IP addresses for the regional endpoint were immediately removed,” Amazon engineers wrote, requiring manual intervention to restore service. The disruption, concentrated in AWS’s US-East-1 region, cascaded through EC2, Redshift, Lambda, and Fargate systems, underscoring the fragility of cloud interdependencies. Network analysts at Ookla described it as “among the largest internet outages on record,” warning that the event highlights the need for multi-region design and dependency diversity to ensure digital infrastructure resilience as cloud computing becomes critical to global operations.
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Rumble has partnered with Tether to launch Bitcoin and stablecoin tipping for creators, a move CEO Chris Pavlovski unveiled at the Plan B Forum in Lugano. The feature, currently in testing, will let Rumble’s 51 million users send direct payments in Bitcoin, bypassing intermediaries and reducing fees. “We’re going to start rolling that out alongside Tether here in the coming weeks,” Pavlovski said, emphasizing the goal of “a secure, decentralized manner” of creator support. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino called the integration part of a global effort to “empower creators” and ensure they “will not be debanked for what they say.” Built with MoonPay, Rumble’s forthcoming Rumble Wallet will enable users to hold and send digital assets directly. The initiative extends Rumble’s 2023 Bitcoin treasury strategy and reflects the broader digital asset industry shift toward decentralized, creator-first monetization models.
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A new investigation by Naomi Brockwell and the Ludlow Institute reveals how networks of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), driven largely by private company Flock Safety, have quietly expanded into over 5,000 U.S. communities, capturing and storing billions of vehicle scans. Originally marketed as crime-prevention tools, these cloud-connected systems now enable law enforcement to search nationwide databases without warrants. “We’re no longer free to move without being tracked,” said privacy advocate Lee Schmidt, who is suing the city of Norfolk over its 172 Flock cameras. The report details systemic abuse, including officers using ALPR data to stalk or extort citizens, and warns of a growing public-private surveillance nexus circumventing Fourth Amendment protections. Legal experts and privacy researchers call for warrant requirements, short data retention policies, and local oversight to restore accountability before mass vehicle tracking becomes a permanent fixture of public life.
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Writing for Bloomberg News, economist Allison Schrager argues that wealth taxes “don’t work, no matter where they’re imposed,” drawing an historical line from France’s 18th-century window taxes to modern policy debates in Paris, London, and New York. As governments face rising debt, aging populations, and ballooning welfare obligations, Schrager says politicians are “grasping at one strategy they hope will allow them to avoid hard choices: soaking the rich.” France’s proposed 2% levy on wealth over €100 million, she notes, effectively mimics a 50% capital gains tax and risks discouraging investment. Implementation hurdles, capital flight, and valuation challenges further undermine its viability. In the U.S., populist pushes for similar policies threaten fiscal stability in high-tax cities like New York. Schrager concludes that long-term solvency demands broader, more sustainable taxation, because “there just aren’t enough rich people to pay for everything.”
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