From time to time I send this article at my job. Just as a distress call about our system.

There is something to reading something from 20 or 40 years ago and having a professional existential crisis.

Safari - Internet Explorer of 2025

Big mergers in the tech world with excuses including "AI". Hopefully - some reversal of sticking AI to products that don't need it. Even more massive layoffs. And the worst part - still no Half Life 3.

4. Why locking account bricks any device? It should work without registering anywhere.

Ah, this is the bug that froze the system when Minecraft was running with Spark profiler mod!

Why the hell these bots don't just do a git clone and analyse the source code locally? Much less impact on the server and they would be able to perform the same analysis on all repositories, regardless of what particular git forge offers.

what makes you think the webscrapers care what pages they request?

If they can't obey EU law due to some other country law. They shouldn't operate in EU.

You forgot that US agencies are immune to laws and regulations. It tells that their worst enemy is the ICC (International Criminal Court).

That's why European Cloud should be sovereign and with European products only.

Even for consumer products - I'd rather have Mozilla Mail and Microsoft Mail instead of Outlook and Thunderbird. But marketing must market, dammit.

>citing national security as a key reason Yes, "national security", "terrorists" or "protecting the children" and you can push any law.

General purpose not AI specific? I can't believe it.

AWS has plenty of AI specific offerings for EC2. The P, G and Trn families hit a wide range of AI use cases. Why wouldn't they also offer a general purpose one for typical compute?

Plus with the AI boom, making sure that general purpose compute jobs aren't competing for valuable GPUs is very worthwhile...

Where do you see GPUs in this release? This is a CPU-based instance.

Thats the point -- if you only ship GPU instances then every workload ties up precious GPU time.

Yea I misread the parent comment, my bad.

You missed the touch of sarcasm. It's a joke, recent AWS announcements have been heavily AI-focused.

I don't really see how this is a productive comment for the article. Most of big tech focuses on AI and those typically get traction in the news. AWS specically has plenty of non-AI announcements: https://aws.amazon.com/new/

Parent comment made a low quality joke that lacked substance.

I think that is a joke that reflects pretty well the feeling of many people (me included) that miss the ten years ago AWS and their ability to amaze us with solutions for practical problems, instead of marketing claims on PowerPoints.