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Amazon Web Services is dealing with a significant outage in its US-EAST-ONE region, after a power loss hit the use-one-az-four availability zone. EC2 instances and EBS volumes on affected hardware are impaired, a reminder that even the world's dominant cloud infrastructure carries real fragility at the hardware level.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, Anthropic has announced higher usage limits for Claude alongside a new compute agreement with SpaceX. The partnership signals that AI labs are increasingly looking beyond traditional data center arrangements to secure the raw computing power their models demand, and that the race for infrastructure is intensifying fast.
And in the security world, a Linux local privilege escalation exploit called Dirty Frag has surfaced on GitHub. The vulnerability appears to be broadly applicable across Linux systems, which means administrators and security teams will want to be tracking this one closely as more technical details emerge in the coming days.
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