Amazon’s Ring is partnering with Flock—a network used by ICE, police & feds—in a major privacy red flag 🚨

Cops can now request Ring footage, expanding AI surveillance into our neighborhoods 🎥
Flock tracks vehicles & uses biased AI to ID people ⚠️

Given Ring’s privacy failures, this is deeply alarming 😠

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Ring #Flock #Amazon #AI #CivilRights #BigBrother #SmartHome #Police #Data #BigTech #DigitalRights #Security

The Verge: Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents

https://www.theverge.com/news/803257/amazon-robotics-automation-replace-600000-human-jobs

#amazon #robots #jobs

What to know about the Amazon cloud outage that exposed the internet’s vulnerable backbone, from @AssociatedPress.

The outage "demonstrated just how many people rely on the corporate behemoth’s computational infrastructure everyday — and laid bare the vulnerabilities of an increasingly concentrated system."

https://flip.it/.aUinq

#Amazon #AWS #Tech #Technology #Internet

The Verge: Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents

https://www.theverge.com/news/803257/amazon-robotics-automation-replace-600000-human-jobs

#amazon #robots #jobs

@kibcol1049
> users reporting trouble getting online after problems at Amazon’s cloud computing service

What, you mean having huge chunks of our online infrastructure dependent on one corporation can create a lack of resilience?! Who'da thunk it? : P

#Amazon

@kibcol1049
> users reporting trouble getting online after problems at Amazon’s cloud computing service

What, you mean having huge chunks of our online infrastructure dependent on one corporation can create a lack of resilience?! Who'da thunk it? : P

#Amazon

By pure coincidence, @pluralistic 's reminder that everyone (Americans included) needs to reduce their tech dependence on the American broligarchy happened during a major AWS outage.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/

#bigtech #AWS #Microsoft #Google #Apple #Facebook #Meta #X #Twitter #Amazon

"The list includes McDonald's, DisneyPlus, Snapchat, Signal, Roblox, Verizon, Fortnite, Venmo, Perplexity, Hulu, Duolingo, Perplexity, Reddit and Coinbase. Even Amazon.com was offline at one point, and some users have also reported that their Alexa smart speakers and Ring doorbells had stopped working.

Banks and even some government websites have been affected"

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/amazon_aws_outage/?td=rt-3a

#decentralisation #aws #amazon

Way too many bytes in one basket makes for one very big single point of failure. This is the cost of an absurdly hyper-centralised fast-food-like data center culture.

Signal++ down, sucks, but it's seeing fundamentals like banks & public sector services break that stings most.

But hey, maybe this is what it tales to push more govs to actual #datasovereignty, investing in locally owned data centers or building out their team & hosting on-prem

#decentralisation #amazon #aws

By pure coincidence, @pluralistic 's reminder that everyone (Americans included) needs to reduce their tech dependence on the American broligarchy happened during a major AWS outage.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/

#bigtech #AWS #Microsoft #Google #Apple #Facebook #Meta #X #Twitter #Amazon

2/ Okay, I think I might already have some ideas.

My latest #Apache log has 26,694 lines.

In these 26.694 lines, I have:

- 10,724 access requests from "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler"
- 4.562 access requests from "https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot"
- 3.316 access requests from "https://openai.com/gptbot"

So yeah, I suspect these are the #LLM crawling bots from #Facebook , #Amazon , and #OpenAI who jointly make up for more than half the traffic - and they are hogging the more resource intensive functions, like "Recent Changes" on my wiki.

Fuck those fuckers for causing outages on my websites.

And any suggestions on how to block them (no snark, please - I _am_ new at this.)

The Amazon Web Services outage hit major websites and apps across the globe, including @Flipboard.

What we know so far as recovery begins, from CNBC: https://flip.it/sH.6Hr

#Amazon #AWS #Tech #Technology #News

Worldwide AWS Outage: Snapchat, Duolingo and several banks among major apps down in Amazon internet services outage https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y8k7k6v1rt

#Amazon #AmazonAWS #Outage #Downtime #Internet #Centralized

The AWS outage just shows that you don't have to have accounts with Amazon (or Google, or Microsoft, or Meta) for them to digitally fuck you up.

We need the EU and the UK to start thinking seriously about digital sovereignty, to be independent of US Big Tech, and to be self-reliant as soon as possible.

#BigTech #AWS #Amazon #DigitalSovereignty #Internet #US #EU #UK

2/ Okay, I think I might already have some ideas.

My latest #Apache log has 26,694 lines.

In these 26.694 lines, I have:

- 10,724 access requests from "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler"
- 4.562 access requests from "https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot"
- 3.316 access requests from "https://openai.com/gptbot"

So yeah, I suspect these are the #LLM crawling bots from #Facebook , #Amazon , and #OpenAI who jointly make up for more than half the traffic - and they are hogging the more resource intensive functions, like "Recent Changes" on my wiki.

Fuck those fuckers for causing outages on my websites.

And any suggestions on how to block them (no snark, please - I _am_ new at this.)

The AWS outage just shows that you don't have to have accounts with Amazon (or Google, or Microsoft, or Meta) for them to digitally fuck you up.

We need the EU and the UK to start thinking seriously about digital sovereignty, to be independent of US Big Tech, and to be self-reliant as soon as possible.

#BigTech #AWS #Amazon #DigitalSovereignty #Internet #US #EU #UK

Worldwide AWS Outage: Snapchat, Duolingo and several banks among major apps down in Amazon internet services outage https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y8k7k6v1rt

#Amazon #AmazonAWS #Outage #Downtime #Internet #Centralized

Amazon’s Ring is partnering with Flock—a network used by ICE, police & feds—in a major privacy red flag 🚨

Cops can now request Ring footage, expanding AI surveillance into our neighborhoods 🎥
Flock tracks vehicles & uses biased AI to ID people ⚠️

Given Ring’s privacy failures, this is deeply alarming 😠

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Ring #Flock #Amazon #AI #CivilRights #BigBrother #SmartHome #Police #Data #BigTech #DigitalRights #Security