#aws
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Amazon takes aim at Nvidia with TorchNeuron, loosening PyTorch's grip on GPUs
AWS has released TorchNeuron, a tool that moves PyTorch apps onto Amazon's own Trainium chips with a single line of configuration. The company also plans to make the popular framework less dependent on Nvidia's hardware.
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The case for hard budget caps as a default setting
Simon Willison argues that in the age of AI agents, usage-based services should shut off at a budget ceiling by default — not merely send a warning.
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Amazon pens a scary blog warning towns not to block its data centers
AWS chief Matt Garman used a lengthy blog post to urge Americans to back AI data center projects — or risk "irreparable harm" to the US economy and national security.
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Iranian Strikes on Amazon Data Centers Led to Irrecoverable Loss of Customer Data
The military destruction of AWS data centers exceeded the level of stress Amazon's services are designed to withstand, and some user data was lost beyond any possibility of recovery.
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JetBrains Breached Through Its Own Unpatched TeamCity: AWS Keys and Code Leaked
The company is urging users of its Cadence cloud service to immediately revoke and rotate all secrets: attackers penetrated its infrastructure through a TeamCity vulnerability that JetBrains had failed to patch on its own systems.
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Amazon Linux 2027: a preview with Linux kernel 7.1, LTO and a bet on x86-64-v3
AWS has opened a public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 — a major update to its cloud distribution featuring a new kernel, fresh compilers and a host of performance optimizations.
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AWS Acquires DuckLabs: DuckDB Stays Open
The team behind the analytical DBMS DuckDB will join Amazon Web Services as early as the start of September. The developers promise that the “duck stack” will remain free under the MIT license.
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Hundreds of Leaked AWS Keys Grant Full Access to Corporate Accounts
Truffle Security has discovered that more than 9,300 AWS access keys exposed publicly over the past four years are still valid — and hundreds of them grant full control over companies' cloud accounts.
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Codex on AWS Bedrock overpays for cache: no control over prompt caching
An issue has been filed in the Codex GitHub repository: the native Amazon Bedrock provider can't enable explicit prompt caching for GPT-5.6 Sol, so agentic sessions generate a flood of expensive cache-write tokens.
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Photo search service ClarityCheck exposed 9 million pictures of faces online
A tool for finding people by their photo left roughly 450 GB of images publicly accessible — including the faces of adults, teenagers and children — and also leaked personal data through unsecured APIs.
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CareCloud confirms theft of medical data on 3.7 million patients
One of the largest breaches in the U.S. healthcare system this year: attackers stole the personal and medical data of more than 3.75 million people from CareCloud's cloud storage.
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CoreBreak: AWS, Google and Vercel Agents Tricked Into Running Tools Without the Model
At Black Hat USA 2026, researchers from Stealth demonstrated a general class of attacks in which forged tool calls reach an AI agent's execution layer without the language model ever taking a turn. AWS, Google and Vercel have shipped fixes.
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AWS Caught with $1.7 Billion in Inaccurate Cost Data
Hacker News users are discussing a report that Amazon Web Services' estimated billing data turned out to be inaccurate by $1.7 billion. The topic sparked a wide response in the community.
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Vulnerability in Shark Robot Vacuums Allows Hijacking Other Devices Across an Entire AWS Region
A researcher going by the handle tokay0 has discovered and published a method for gaining root access to other people's Shark robot vacuums within a single AWS region. The manufacturer has yet to patch the vulnerability.