TWiT 1055: The Garden of Thorns - AWS Outage Exposes Our Cloud Dependency

When a major Amazon cloud outage brings everything from smart mattresses to Snapchat grinding to a halt, what does it reveal about our digital fragility—and are we trusting the cloud a little too much?

• A Single Point of Failure Triggered the Amazon Outage Affecting Million • Pluralistic: The mad king's digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025) • Trump and Xi will 'consummate' TikTok deal on Thursday, treasury secretary says • 3,000 YouTube Videos Exposed as Malware Traps in Massive Ghost Network Operation • Can YouTube Replace 'Traditional' TV? • All the implications of F1's game-changing TV move • Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws • Browser Promising Privacy Protection Contains Malware-Like Features, Routes Traffic Through China • iCloud data helps crack NBA and mob poker scheme • Rubbish IT systems cost the US at least $40bn during Covid: study • Counter-Strike cosmetics economy loses nearly $2 billion in value overnight • GM to introduce eyes-off, hands-off driving system in 2028 • WordPress co-founder files countersuit against WP Engine over trademark violations • a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of 'Synthetic Influencers' to Manipulate Social Media as a Service • Bill Gates-Backed 345 MWe Advanced Nuclear Reactor Secures Crucial US Approval • Programmer Gets Doom Running On a Space Satellite

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Richard Campbell and Doc Rock

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