DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Security & Risk, Sebastian Moss, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok hit by simultaneous outages
People forced to think for themselves
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Ukraine says Nvidia Jetson gear found in Russian S-71M missile
Calls for stronger sanctions to stop tech reaching Russia
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Microsoft Azure outage at West US region causes intermittent connectivity failures
Systems expected to recover as issue is rolled back
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Boeing outage significantly disrupts commercial and military production across US
Not believed to be a cyberattack
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Anthropic disables latest AI model after US order limits foreign access
Amazon's CEO warned the government about the model
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DARPA Smash: Agency hopes to recover all elements from ore, render China’s rare earth supply chain stranglehold obsolete
Would also solve copper shortages and other supply challenges
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Suspect arrested after Molotov cocktail attack against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home
Same individual believed to have threatened OpenAI's headquarters
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Iran's Sharif University of Technology hit in US-Israel strikes, destroying HPC data center
Attack occurred ahead of temporary ceasefire
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Iran threatens to attack OpenAI's Stargate data center in UAE
After hitting Amazon and Oracle data centers
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Iran threatens to attack energy and IT infrastructure if Trump targets power plants
After AWS data centers were hit early on in the war
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Iranian state-affiliated news agency claims AWS data center drone strikes were deliberate
As part of attacks that also impacted AWS' Middle Eastern Ground Station
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Israel and US bomb data centers in Tehran, following Iran's drone strikes on AWS
As data centers increasingly become targets in war
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OpenAI to amend DoD AI contract after surveillance and autonomous weapons concerns
After Anthropic gets supply-chain risk designation for not allowing such work on Claude
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Amazon confirms two UAE data centers hit by drone strikes, third in Bahrain damaged
As Iran strikes the Middle East following US and Israeli attacks
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AWS UAE suffers AZ outage after "objects strike data center" and cause fire, amid Iran attacks
Availability Zone in ME-CENTRAL-1 brought offline in possible drone or missile attack
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Trump orders federal agencies to "immediately" stop using Anthropic AI tech, threatens "criminal consequences" against "radical left, woke company"
After company sought to put limits on DoD usage of its AI for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons
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Cryptominer NFN8 files for bankruptcy, following data center fire and Bitcoin price crash
Company was also impacted by Core Scientific's previous bankruptcy proceedings
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Verizon Wireless outage hits thousands across the US
iPhones stuck in SOS mode
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'IT issue' at Edinburgh Airport causes all flights to be suspended
No information on when flights will resume
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After CME outage, CyrusOne adds backup cooling capacity
Futures trading was halted at Chicago data center due to cooling issue
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Major Cloudflare outage brings down sites around the world (including DCD)
Smaller platforms like ChatGPT and X also impacted
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Microsoft Azure reports issues, a day after increased latencies at AWS
None seem to be full outages, but have caused problems
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Bloomberg claims UK gov't considered destroying London data center with Chinese owners over spy concerns
Amid broader allegations of Chinese espionage and hacking claims
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US ICE acquires roving fake cell towers to spy on phones
Spends more than $800,000 on cell site simulator vehicles
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Battery fire at South Korea's state data center brings government services offline
Prime Minister calls for action on ongoing blaze
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Multiple subsea cables cut in the Red Sea, impacting Internet traffic in the Middle East and South Asia
Microsoft notes increased latency, but no major outages
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Airtel outage impacts mobile users in India
Jio and Vodafone Idea users also report issues, but likely tied to Airtel