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Amazon already publishes transparency reports indicating which country requested data[1]. It's not clear in the article what kinds of data requests are communicated by the alleged …

> €1.4 an hour for the CPU/GPU alone, plus a couple more Euro for hard disk usage and long-term storage (usage was pretty high during setup, which accounts at least for half the am…

Check out the Trusted Advisor dashboard, GuardDuty is also a good thing to have running in your account

Default bucket encryption would require you to misconfigure two controls instead of one. S3 only automatically decrypts if you are an authorized principal on the KMS key, having S3…

The grid in Costa Rica is also highly unreliable and many communities will run off oil & gas generators for extended periods of time (in addition to the comments that a majority tr…

The concept of a strategic supply chain is not new, as semiconductors play an increasingly strategic role in the US' defense and industrial policies - treating them as strategic is…

I used to work for a company that did model risk management consulting for large banks and source code reviews were a standard part of what we did. What sounds different from the O…

billions debt service on MTA bonds, a Cuomo directed bail out of Ski resorts. These are the things our taxes and subway fares go towards...

The boomers inherited the only advanced country in the world that hadn't had its industrial capacity reduced to rubble over the course of two world wars. The US was the only manufa…

In the US the 8 hour work day was established by FDR with one feature being that it would tighten the labor market (and reduce unemployment) by forcing employers to hire more peopl…

It's not just driver errors. Apparently the crash detection system kicked in during the Berlin ISIS attack and stopped the truck before the attacker could kill more people (sorry, …

Many sites where I perform sensitive transactions require me to periodically change my password (banks, brokerage, etc.) The Shannon entropy of the impossible to remember example p…