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Amazon Web Services: AWS wieder im Normalbetrieb
Am Montag legte ein Fehler Amazons Web Services und damit diverse Internet-Dienste lahm. Amazon erklärt die Probleme.
https://www.heise.de/news/…

Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-…

Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots
Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.

Nice new accessible trail in #McLarenPark from Mansell Promenade to John F. Shelley Promenade. No more need to loop around up a steep hill on Shelley to get to the part with the great views west.

This widely-linked story is, I think, much ado about nothing. Anyone who's seen the inside of an Amazon warehouse immediately thinks “Shouldn’t robots be doing this?” and that includes every Amazon biz and engineering leader, starting like 25 years ago. There is no doubt that the whole warehouse sector would love to replace humans with robots. It’s hard. So what’s new? Is it possible LLM fairy dust will solve the problem? Unconvinced.

Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents
Amazon is leaning into automation plans that will enable the company to avoid hiring more than half a million US workers, according to leaked documents.

Forests on Indigenous lands help protect health in the Amazon https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/forests-on-indigenous-lands-help-protect-health-in-the-amazon/

Forests on Indigenous lands help protect health in the Amazon
Healthy forests are more than climate shields; in the Amazon, they also serve as public-health infrastructure. A Communications Earth & Environment study spanning two decades across the biome links the extent and legal status of Indigenous Territories to 27 respiratory, cardiovascular, and zoonotic or vector-borne diseases. The findings are complex, but one pattern is clear: […]

Amazon Web Services: Globale Störung
Diverse Internet-Dienste beklagen derzeit Ausfälle. Das geht auf Störungen der Cloud-Dienste Amazon Web Services zurück.
https://www.heise.de/news/Amazon-Web-Servi

A look at Amazon's Sparrow, Cardinal, Proteus, and other warehouse robots, taking over roles like selecting and picking items, carrying shipping carts, and more (Karen Weise/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/amazon-robotics-automa…

The Robots Fueling Amazon’s Automation
Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus. They’re the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company’s warehouses.

Amazon.com hofft offenbar, 600.000 US-Mitarbeiter durch Roboter zu ersetzen
Stellenstreichungen könnten bis 2027 zu Kosteneinsparungen von 30 Cent pro verkauftem Produkt führen, besagen interne Dokumente. Amazon.com wiegelt ab.

"Kein Reboot": Amazon bestellt neue Stargate-Serie für Prime Video
Stargate gehört zu den bekanntesten Science-Fiction-Marken, lange gab es aber nichts Neues. Nun hat Amazon eine neue Serie für seinen Streamingdienst bestellt.

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Amazon Web Services: Globale Störung am Montagmorgen
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