đź‘‹ Dear reader: Hope you’re staying safe, and going strong with your new year resolutions. This is first part of a series of posts I wish to write on peculiar cloud security challenges. In this post, I will cover: Encryption … Read more
Amazon announced it has made some changes with regard to the e-books purchased via the Kindle Unlimited program. As per the new scheme of things, downloading Kindle Unlimited e-books from the Manage Your Content section via USB has been disabled. … Read more
Amazon. AMZN -0.79% com Inc.’s layoffs will affect more than 17,000 employees, according to people familiar with the matter, the highest reduction tally revealed in the past year at a major technology company as the industry pares back amid economic … Read more
When Matthew Legault graduated from high school in June, his parents figured they’d recognize his hard work by buying the parts he needed to build his own personal computer. They placed an order with Amazon and it arrived at their … Read more
Amazon plans to lay off as many as 20,000 employees across the company in the coming months, including  distribution center workers, technology staff and corporate executives—about twice as many as previously reported—as the retail and cloud computing giant retrenches after … Read more
Today, I am publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of Amazon’s ecommerce platform. It highlights the challenges we were facing at the end of the 20th century, and … Read more
reader comments 240 with 144 posters participating Share this story Lawyers, who are representing parents suing Amazon for selling “suicide kits” to teenagers who died by suicide, say they have reached a “breaking point.” Amazon lawyers have allegedly told parents that … Read more
A software bug caused Amazon to overstate some corporate employees’ raises, a leaked email said. Amazon’s stock has fallen, and the software relied on older share prices to calculate compensation. The glitch comes amid an upswell of discontent over pay … Read more
A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most … Read more
Amazon has introduced a new weapon in the battle against internet trolls: delays. Starting around the time of the launch of the distaff baseball dramedy “A League of Their Own,” which premiered its full first season on Aug. 12, Amazon … Read more