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And then Amazon (and Google) instructed employees to delete lots of communications, and to communicate outside normal channels, e.g., via Signal.
From what I can tell, the article is remarkably spot on.
It begs the question, without government contracts[1], where would Amazon actually be? Would Amazon be out of business? Hmm... Makes you wonder.
[1] https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/20...
The "opt-out" Meta AI intrusion where the chatbot auto-replies after 1 hr is quite concerning. I guess it's one way of generating training data, but jeez.
To be sure, 3 Critical vulnerabilities patched in April 2024 are Windows Defender RCEs[1]. Insane.
[1]https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-ap...
So, more layoffs.