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 This Week in Tech episode 1055 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1055 Sponsors: • deel.com/twit • zapier.com/twit • helixsleep.com/twit • expressvpn.com/twit • zscaler.com/security Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Products we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/twitnetcastnetwork TWiT may earn commissions on certain products. Follow us: Website: https://twit.tv/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twit.tv Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@TWiT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TWiTNetwork Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ X (Twitter): https://x.com/TWiT TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@twittok LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/twit-llc About us: TWiT.tv is a technology podcasting network located in the San Francisco Bay Area with the #1 ranked technology podcast This Week in Tech hosted by Leo Laporte. Every week we produce dozens of hours of content on a variety of programs including Tech News Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Security Now, Intelligent Machines, and more.