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The Amazon outage hints at a much bigger vulnerability

The Amazon outage hints at a much bigger vulnerability

Update: 2025-10-20
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When Amazon's cloud service crashed, it disrupted everything from social media sites and games to businesses and Blue Jays tickets. A cybersecurity expert tells us that's a downside of so few companies being in charge of so much. 


The host of one of Italy's top investigative journalism programs is targeted with an explosive device -- but his editor says the team will keep reporting on organized crime regardless. 


Officials at the Louvre are struggling to explain how thieves were able to stage a daytime heist with some basic tools -- and get away with irreplaceable, historic jewelry less than ten minutes.


A new study suggests that telling parents to expose their babies to peanuts was good advice -- and may have lowered the rates of potentially lethal peanut allergies. 


Bangers from our adolescence still seem more significant than anything we've heard since -- and now, researchers have calculated the point in our teenage years they call the "reminiscence bump".


As It Happens, the Monday Edition. Radio that knows some jams you can't get out of.

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The Amazon outage hints at a much bigger vulnerability

The Amazon outage hints at a much bigger vulnerability