Breko: 6-GHz-Band nicht für weiträumigen Mobilfunk geeignet

Dass WLAN im unteren 6-GHz-Band in Deutschland nicht sein volles Potenzial ausschöpft, liegt laut Breko an der verzögerten Markteinführung kompatibler Router. (WLAN, Vodafone)

Dass WLAN im unteren 6-GHz-Band in Deutschland nicht sein volles Potenzial ausschöpft, liegt laut Breko an der verzögerten Markteinführung kompatibler Router. (WLAN, Vodafone)

Amazon’s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions

Amazon’s outage is over. But backlash over billions in losses has just started.

On Monday afternoon, Amazon confirmed that an outage affecting Amazon Web Services’ cloud hosting, which had impacted millions across the Internet, had been resolved.

Considered the worst outage since last year’s CrowdStrike chaos, Amazon’s outage caused “global turmoil,” Reuters reported. AWS is the world’s largest cloud provider and, therefore, the “backbone of much of the Internet,” ZDNet noted. Ultimately, more than 28 AWS services were disrupted, causing perhaps billions in damages, one analyst estimated for CNN.

Popular apps like Snapchat, Signal, and Reddit went dark. Flights got delayed. Banks and financial services went down. Massive games like Fortnite could not be accessed. Some of Amazon’s own services were hit, too, including its e-commerce platform, Alexa, and Prime Video. Ultimately, millions of businesses simply stopped operating, unable to log employees into their systems or accept payments for their goods.

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Innenministerium Baden-Württemberg: Zugriffe durch Drittstaaten bei Delos Cloud möglich

Baden-Württembergs Innenministerium räumt bei Delos ein: Der Cloudanbieter könne von der US-Regierung “angewiesen werden, einen Datenabfluss in seine Software zu integrieren”. (Raus aus der (US)-Cloud, SAP)

Baden-Württembergs Innenministerium räumt bei Delos ein: Der Cloudanbieter könne von der US-Regierung "angewiesen werden, einen Datenabfluss in seine Software zu integrieren". (Raus aus der (US)-Cloud, SAP)

Even with protections, wolves still fear humans

European wolves flee human conversation faster than dogs’ barking.

Back in May 2025, the European Parliament changed the status of wolves in the EU from “strictly protected” to “protected,” which opened the way for its member states to allow hunting under certain conditions, such as protecting livestock. One of the arguments behind this change was that the “tolerance of modern society towards wolves” led to the emergence of “fearless wolves” that are no longer afraid of people.

“Regulators made it clear though that there is no scientific evidence to back this up,” says Michael Clinchy, a zoologist at the Western University London, Canada. “So we did the first-of-its-kind study to find out if wolves have really lost their fear of humans. We proved there is no such thing as a fearless wolf.”

Red riding hood

The big bad wolf trope is found in plenty of our myths and fables, with Little Red Riding Hood being probably the most famous example. This mythical fear of wolves, combined with real damage to livestock, led to extensive hunting. By the mid-20th century, we’d pushed wolves to the verge of extinction in Western and Central Europe. Human-wolf encounters became very rare, and the big bad wolf myth faded away. But starting in the 1970s wolves became a protected species across Europe and North America, which caused wolf populations to bounce back and reoccupy some of their old habitats.

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