Amazon AWS Outage Sparks Chaos

On October 24, Linus and Luke kick off the WAN Show by tearing into Amazon’s AWS DNS meltdown, which took down everything from Twitch streams to Pokémon GO. They trace the outage back to a DNS hiccup (and Linus’s own in-flight Wi-Fi drama), dive into Steam Big Picture’s connectivity bug, and laugh at some of the odder collateral victims.

From CS2 Wipeouts to Jet-Powered Data Halls

Next up: Counter-Strike 2’s update tanks its market cap to $3 billion while Chinese investors wonder if it’s market manipulation. Then they marvel at jet engines juicing data centers, weigh in on Samsung’s AI headset and neural interfaces, and catch up on PRIMA’s vision-restoring eye implant. Along the way there’s talk of YouTube’s new AI-video detector, cops swarming a kid over AI-mistaken Doritos, and even a debate on whether Linus Tech Tips should morph into an ad agency.

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