Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift. Since at least the industrial revolution, workers have worried that machines would replace them. … Read more
PostgreSQL is a popular open source general-purpose SQL database. It uses multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) to provide three levels of transaction isolation. PostgreSQL’s “Read Uncommitted” and “Read Committed” are both Read Committed. The “Repeatable Read” level actually provides Snapshot Isolation, … Read more
Amazon doesn’t want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump’s trade war. So the e-commerce giant will soon show how much Trump’s tariffs are adding to the price of each product, according to a person familiar with the plan. The shopping … Read more
April 26 is Independent Bookstore Day, an annual tradition organized by the American Booksellers Association that is entering its 12th year and has taken place on the final Saturday of April since its conception. And, wouldn’t you know it, Amazon … Read more
Come March 28, those who opted to have their voice commands for Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa processed locally on their Echo devices will lose that option, with all spoken requests pushed to the cloud for analysis. Amazon hasn’t formally announced … Read more
Amazon recently changed the wording on their website when it comes to buying Kindle ebooks. As the screenshot above shows, they now have a disclaimer under the buy now button that says, “By placing your order, you’re purchasing a license … Read more
Amazon will cease the ability to download and transfer options for the Kindle e-reader on February 26th, 2025. No Kindle can use this functionality once the due date rolls around. Only the 12th generation Kindles never had this ability to … Read more
Today, we’re thrilled to announce Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models (FMs) that deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price performance, available exclusively in Amazon Bedrock. You can use Amazon Nova to lower costs and latency for … Read more
Amazon S3 can now perform conditional writes that evaluate if an object is unmodified before updating it. This helps you coordinate simultaneous writes to the same object and prevents multiple concurrent writers from unintentionally overwriting the object without knowing the … Read more
We had a bad time with Amazon yesterday, and I can’t reach them to tell them about it. Without getting into details, an Amazon delivery driver did a bad thing on our property, which we only discovered this morning when … Read more