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Upstream Alert: Amazon Q almost helped to optimise AWS bills in seconds
A malicious pull request slipped into Amazon’s AI coding assistant and nearly turned it into a self-destruct bot. It’s a reminder that prompt injection…
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Upstream Alert: We all fall for the same trap
A routine OS update took down Heroku for 23 hours on June 10th, 2025. The incident echoes similar outages at OpenAI and Datadog, reminding us that…
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Upstream Alert: Your website can't load!
A quiet config change in June mislabeled Cloudflare’s production DNS (1.1.1.1) as part of a pre-prod test system.
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Upstream Alert: where did you store your sensitive data?
5.7 million customer data taken from Qantas through a third-party vendor tool. Are you at risk?
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Upstream Alert: One update, no more Internet
A daily OS patch knocked out thousands of OpenAI’s GPU nodes. And with them, a large chunk of ChatGPT and API availability.
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Upstream Alert: How a blank field broke half the Internet
On June 12, a blank field in a new IAM policy triggered a bug in a newly deployed Google Cloud service, causing widespread outages across platforms like…
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