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Submission + - Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, Signal, and more (theverge.com)

Submitted by united_notions on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:03AM

united_notions writes: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services, and more. The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region” — though outages are also impacting services in other regions globally.

Submission + - We have a winner in the worldâ(TM)s first quantum chess tournament (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by John Trumpian on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:19AM

John Trumpian writes: Forget all those amusing memes of Anya Taylor-Joy's Beth Harmon from The Queen's Gambit facing off against Spock in Star Trek's infamous 3D chess. We want to see Beth take on challengers in a quantum chess tournament. The world's first such tournament was held December 9 as part of the virtual Q2B 2020 conference on quantum computing, with Amazon's Aleksander Kubica emerging victorious, New Scientist reports.

What exactly is quantum chess? It's a complicated version of regular chess that incorporates the quantum concepts of superposition, entanglement, and interference. âoeItâ(TM)s like youâ(TM)re playing in a multiverse but the different boards [in different universes] are connected to each other,â said Caltech physicist Spiros Michalakis during a livestream of the tournament. âoeIt makes 3D chess from Star Trek look silly.â

Comment Re:A new reality (Score 2) 157

by Fabi on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @06:45AM (#53482139) Attached to: Snowden: 'The Central Problem of the Future' Is Control of User Data

I agree. What I'm wondering is why all the data collection is only seen as a thread. Yes it is dangerous but there are also opportunities and we as society have to adapt!

These discussions completely miss the point to think about a future where not only companies track our data but everyone can track the own data. And we will also shop for algorithms to make sense of that data. Quantified self and similar movements are only the beginning. There is a future where you can compare different recommendations what to read and not just rely on suggestions from Amazon. Individuals may have a more complete data set than companies do and can therefore make better decisions - if algorithms become generally available and people know how to use them.

Maybe this new reality can be compared with reading abilities that slowly developed after the dark age. Previously only scholars and priests were read the available books and transferred know how to the masses. Now again we need to learn to read the data.

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