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Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 08:14:10

6 min read On August 21, 2025, an influx of traffic directed toward clients hosted in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) us-east-1 facility caused severe congestion on links between Cloudflare and AWS us-east-1. This impacted many users who were connecting to or receiving connections from Cloudflare via servers in AWS us-east-1 in the form of high latency, packet loss, and failures to origins. Customers with origins in AWS us-east-1 began experiencing impact at 16:27 UTC. The impact was substantial

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Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 16:39:15

Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs This article brought to you by LWN subscribers Subscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. There is an inherent limit to the privacy of the public cloud. While Linux can isolate virtual machines (VMs) from each other, nothing in the system's memory is ultimately out of reach for the host cloud prov

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Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions

news.ycombinator.com Chris Wright 2025-10-28 17:35:49

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you’ll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right over the busiest shipping lane in the world. As it turns out, the lightning really is responding to the ships, or rather the tiny particles they emit. Using data from a global lightning detection network, my colleagues and I have been studying how exhaust plumes from ships are associated with an increase in the frequency of lightning. For decades, ship emissions steadil

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The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 14:24:16

published 8/21/2025 The First MoQ CDN: Cloudflare 🚨 It’s finally happening! 🚨 Cloudflare has just announced their Media over QUIC CDN! It’s an official product, and you can test MoQ on their massive, anycast network. Try it out, and convince your boss’ boss that the writing is on the wall. If you’ve been living under a rock, MoQ is an up-and-coming standard for live media, aiming to supplant WebRTC, HLS/DASH, and even RTMP/SRT as the one to rule them all. And now Cloudflare wins the award fo

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Murky Panda hackers exploit cloud trust to hack downstream customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-02 09:56:16

A Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Murky Panda (Silk Typhoon) exploits trusted relationships in cloud environments to gain initial access to the networks and data of downstream customers. Murky Panda, also known as Silk Typhoon (Microsoft) and Hafnium, is known for targeting government, technology, academic, legal, and professional services organizations in North America. The hacking group, under its numerous names, has been linked to numerous cyberespionage campaigns, including

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APT36 hackers abuse Linux .desktop files to install malware in new attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-02 23:35:11

The Pakistani APT36 cyberspies are using Linux .desktop files to load malware in new attacks against government and defense entities in India. The activity, documented in reports by CYFIRMA and CloudSEK, aims at data exfiltration and persistent espionage access. APT 36 has previously used .desktop files to load malware in targeted espionage operations in South Asia. The attacks were first spotted on August 1, 2025, and based on the latest evidence, are still ongoing. Desktop file abuse Altho

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Arch Linux remains under attack as DDoS enters week 2 - here's a workaround

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-11-02 23:52:19

atese/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways All Arch Linux sites are under attack. No one knows why Arch is getting smacked around. You can get Arch Linux files and programs from GitHub. Although not well-suited for new users, Arch Linux is a popular distro with a passionate fan base. So, why has someone been knocking down the Arch Linux site repeatedly for over a week now with an ongoing distributed denial-o

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The First Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 23:24:16

published 8/21/2025 The First MoQ CDN: Cloudflare 🚨 It’s finally happening! 🚨 Cloudflare has just announced their Media over QUIC CDN! It’s an official product, and you can test MoQ on their massive, anycast network. Try it out, and convince your boss’ boss that the writing is on the wall. If you’ve been living under a rock, MoQ is an up-and-coming standard for live media, aiming to supplant WebRTC, HLS/DASH, and even RTMP/SRT as the one to rule them all. And now Cloudflare wins the award fo

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Thank God, ‘Fallout’ Season 2 Will Release Weekly

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-02 23:30:09

Just as Lucy, the star of Fallout, continues to learn about the decimated world around her, so too has its streamer, Prime Video. After inexplicably breaking its own mold and releasing the entire first season of the show at once, season two will be released weekl. It premieres on December 17, “with the eight-episode season rolling out with one new episode weekly until the season finale on February 4,” according to a press release. Hallelujah! The first season of the show was a massive success f

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Meta's AI Push Leads to $10 Billion Google Cloud Deal, Report Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-03 14:20:20

Eager to establish dominance in artificial intelligence, Meta has signed up to use cloud-computing services from Google Cloud in a deal worth at least $10 billion over six years, according to a report from Bloomberg. The deal would expand Meta's capabilities as it continues to push into AI tools and services across its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. AI requires an enormous amount of computing resources, which requires more data center bandwidth. In turn, those data cente

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Outdated IT help desks are holding businesses back - but there is a solution

zdnet.com Jim Rapoza 2025-11-03 23:24:59

Muhammet Camdereli/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. ZDNET's key takeaways Aging help desk systems hinder remote support and IT fixes. Cloud-based help desks cut costs, ease complexity, boost IT. 28% of businesses are automating IT and help desk services. Along with aging help desk systems, businesses face a number of challenges when it comes to building more responsive support capabilities. Data breaches remain a h

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Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion

cnbc.com Jordan Novet Jonathan Vanian 2025-11-04 14:39:50

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta has agreed to spend more than $10 billion on Google cloud services, according to two people familiar with the matter. The agreement spans six years, said the people, who asked not to be named because the terms are confidential. The deal was reported earlier by The Information. Google is aiming to land big cloud contracts as it chases lar

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Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B

news.ycombinator.com Jordan Novet Jonathan Vanian 2025-11-04 14:34:33

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta has agreed to spend more than $10 billion on Google cloud services, according to two people familiar with the matter. The agreement spans six years, said the people, who asked not to be named because the terms are confidential. The deal was reported earlier by The Information. Google is aiming to land big cloud contracts as it chases lar

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Microsoft's gutting of discounts for some clients likely baked into guidance, analyst says

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-11-07 10:18:04

Microsoft said last week that it plans to stop providing discounts on enterprise purchases of its Microsoft 365 productivity software subscriptions and other cloud applications. Since the announcement, analysts have published estimates on how much more customers will end up paying. But for investors trying to figure out what it all means to Microsoft's financials, analysts at UBS said the change is already factored into guidance. "In our view, it is safe to assume that the impact of the pricin

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The game studio building a new BioShock just had mass layoffs

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-08 04:15:48

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The team working on the next BioShock game is losing a third of its staff. According to Bloomberg, Take-Two is laying off more than 80 people at Cloud Chamber, which has been working on a new BioShock title, and the game has been delayed from a planned launch in late 2026 or early 2027. T

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Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 08:47:03

Zedless This is Zedless, a fork of Zed that's designed to be privacy-friendly and local-first. Zedless is currently work-in-progress. Feel free to contribute! Planned Changes from Upstream This is a list of things that Zedless will do differently. No reliance on proprietary cloud services Components and features that strictly rely on non-selfhostable cloud services will be removed. No spyware Telemetry and automatic crash reporting will be removed. Priority on bringing your own infrastruc

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The Rogue Prince of Persia is officially out for PC and consoles

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-08 14:46:21

Ubisoft and Evil Empire's long-awaited The Rogue Prince of Persia is finally out and available for purchase. It's been in early access on Steam for over a year and the developers have made plenty of changes during that time to get the game ready for a general launch. It's available for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, Xbox Series X/S and PS5. It's also playable in the cloud by using the Xbox Cloud service, Ubisoft+ and Amazon Luna. Nintendo fans will have to wait a bit longer. The game's

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Google can read your Docs to you now

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-09 18:41:03

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways You can listen to your Google Docs documents read aloud. Control the playback and let other people listen to the document. Feature is available to Workspace, AI Pro, and AI Ultra users. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Listening to your own documents is a helpful way to catch typos and other mistakes, and learn how your writing actually sounds. Now,

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Fallout S2 teaser brings us to New Vegas

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-10 14:24:05

Prime Video has dropped an extended teaser for the much-anticipated second season of Fallout, widely considered to be among the best TV adaptations of a gaming franchise. In our 2024 year-end roundup, Ars senior editor Samuel Axon wrote that the first season gave us "a specific cocktail of tongue-in-cheek humor, sci-fi campiness, strong themes, great characters, and visceral violence [that] came together into a fantastic show." The second season looks like it will bring us more of the same, alon

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In ‘Fallout’ Season 2’s First Trailer, All Roads Lead to New Vegas

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-11 09:52:11

Ever since season one of Fallout surprised the world with its spin on the iconic RPG series, fans have been eager to see just what Lucy and her Ghoulish ally will get up to after we ended on the cliffhanger tease of one of the most beloved locales in modern Fallout history in the city of New Vegas. Now, we’ve finally got a glimpse of what to expect inside its walls. As part of today’s opening ceremony for Gamescom 2025 in Cologne, Germany, Amazon officially debuted the first teaser trailer for

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Nebraska man gets 1 year in prison for $3.5M cryptojacking scheme

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-11 11:05:03

A Nebraska man was sentenced to one year in prison for defrauding cloud computing providers of over $3.5 million to mine cryptocurrency worth nearly $1 million. Charles O. Parks III (also known as "CP3O") was arrested and charged in April with wire fraud, money laundering, and engaging in unlawful monetary transactions. He was facing up to 20 years in prison in December after admitting that he didn't pay a $3.5 million bill after renting cloud computing time from two providers for his cryptojac

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Microsoft hints at ‘more affordable’ Xbox Cloud Gaming plan

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-14 04:21:21

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Two years ago we learned, thanks to the FTC, that Microsoft was working on a separate “dedicated” version of Xbox Cloud Gaming. Microsoft Gaming CFO Tim Stuart then hinted, a few months later, that there could be a free version Xbox Cloud Gaming in exchange for ads. Now, Microsoft is hintin

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Amazon’s Fallout season two heads to New Vegas

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-11-14 14:53:18

Prime Video has released new photos from season two of Fallout. Lucy (Ella Purnell), the Ghoul (Walton Goggins), and Maximus (Aaron Moten) return as a trio of Wasteland Wanderers whose adventures will bring them to the post-apocalyptic playground of New Vegas. Take a look. Kyle MacLachlan, who plays Lucy’s father Hank, also returns to the show along with Lucy’s brother Norm (Moises Arias) who looks like there’s more evil afoot in the Vaults (duh!). Season two of Fallout is set to start sometime

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The First Look at ‘Fallout’ Season 2 Is Ready for Vegas

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-15 04:00:20

Amazon has revealed the first official look at Fallout season 2, giving us our first teases at how the series will handle a location fans have been dying to see on screen for years: New Vegas, the main setting of Obsidian’s beloved Fallout: New Vegas. But that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re getting a good look at New Vegas itself just yet. Today Amazon dropped the first stills from the upcoming season, giving us a fun little catch-up with our major players: Lucy (Ella Purnell) and the Ghoul (Wa

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Should Europe wean itself off US tech?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-15 11:03:19

Should Europe wean itself off US tech? 9 hours ago Share Save Daniel Thomas Business reporter, BBC News Share Save Getty Images The big American tech companies dominate the global cloud-computing sector Imagine if US President Donald Trump could flip a switch and turn off Europe's internet. It may sound far-fetched, crazy even. But it's a scenario that has been seriously discussed in tech industry and policy circles in recent months, as tensions with Washington have escalated, and concerns ab

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Microsoft Probing Whether Israel Used Its Cloud to Build Palestinian Surveillance System

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-15 00:45:18

For the past two years, Microsoft has been dogged by accusations—both within and outside the company—that its technology is aiding the Israeli war effort. Microsoft’s own employees have protested the firm’s contracts with Israel, and protesters have disrupted the company’s various talks and conferences. Even the company’s 50th anniversary was ruined by shouts from one of its own employees, who reportedly yelled “Shame on you” while calling the company’s head of AI a “war profiteer” who was “usin

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Rain: Transiently Leaking Data from Public Clouds Using Old Vulnerabilities

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 18:42:11

OpenReview Anonymous Preprint Submission696 Authors Keywords : Cloud computing security; Hardware security; Systems security TL;DR : Leaking memory across virtual machine boundaries at a public cloud provider, bypassing mitigations against these types of attacks. Abstract : Given their vital importance for governments and enterprises around the world, we need to trust public clouds to provide strong security guarantees even in the face of advanced attacks and hardware vulnerabilities. While t

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HyperX’s claims its latest headset lasts 250 hours on a single charge

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-16 22:51:25

HyperX has announced its latest flagship wireless gaming headset, and once again , the brand’s primary mission statement seems to be chasing eternal life for headphone batteries. The Cloud Alpha 2 will last, according to its maker, for up to 250 hours on a full charge. While that number halves if you make use of the headsets’s simultaneous Bluetooth connectivity, a more than 10-day battery life is impressive for any wireless headset. Its new multi-layer 53mm drivers are engineered to reduce dis

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HP’s New Gaming Headset Promises to Stay Powered From Now Until Judgement Day

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-17 03:43:11

If you really can’t stand the idea of plugging a headset into a spare USB charger after a marathon gaming session, your old buddies Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard may have what you’re looking for. HP’s HyperX lineup of PC gaming peripherals now includes the $300 HyperX Cloud Alpha 2 headset that promises a total of 250 hours of battery life on a full charge. No, it’s not as long as the original $200 HyperX Cloud Alpha’s promised 300 hours back in 2022, but the sequel now includes a big glowing ba

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HyperX’s new gaming headset claims to last 250 hours on a single charge

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-11-19 08:00:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. HP-owned HyperX is announcing a slew of new gaming headsets and streaming-friendly microphones. The HyperX Cloud Alpha 2 is the new flagship at $299.99. It uses 53mm drivers and 2.4GHz wireless lasting up to 250 hours — an impressive 10+ days of con

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Latest Tech News

Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions

The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare

Murky Panda hackers exploit cloud trust to hack downstream customers

APT36 hackers abuse Linux .desktop files to install malware in new attacks

Arch Linux remains under attack as DDoS enters week 2 - here's a workaround

The First Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare

Thank God, ‘Fallout’ Season 2 Will Release Weekly

Meta's AI Push Leads to $10 Billion Google Cloud Deal, Report Says

Outdated IT help desks are holding businesses back - but there is a solution

Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion

Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B

Microsoft's gutting of discounts for some clients likely baked into guidance, analyst says

The game studio building a new BioShock just had mass layoffs

Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first

The Rogue Prince of Persia is officially out for PC and consoles

Google can read your Docs to you now

Fallout S2 teaser brings us to New Vegas

In ‘Fallout’ Season 2’s First Trailer, All Roads Lead to New Vegas

Nebraska man gets 1 year in prison for $3.5M cryptojacking scheme

Microsoft hints at ‘more affordable’ Xbox Cloud Gaming plan

Amazon’s Fallout season two heads to New Vegas

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Microsoft Probing Whether Israel Used Its Cloud to Build Palestinian Surveillance System

Rain: Transiently Leaking Data from Public Clouds Using Old Vulnerabilities

HyperX’s claims its latest headset lasts 250 hours on a single charge

HP’s New Gaming Headset Promises to Stay Powered From Now Until Judgement Day

HyperX’s new gaming headset claims to last 250 hours on a single charge

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