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Silent firing is no longer silent - it's just firing nowTech

Silent firing is no longer silent - it's just firing now

Amazon's 16,000 layoffs are the loudest confirmation yet of a pattern that's been building quietly for years - the slow, deliberate replacement of human corporate roles that was once called 'silent firing' has stopped being silent.

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Big retail just turned India's quick commerce scene into a hunger gamesTech

Big retail just turned India's quick commerce scene into a hunger games

Flipkart and Amazon are pushing aggressively into India's quick commerce space with city expansions and heavy discounting, and analysts say the startups that built the category are starting to feel the heat.

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Amazon's AWS went down because a data center got too hot, and yes, the internet noticedTech

Amazon's AWS went down because a data center got too hot, and yes, the internet noticed

Amazon confirmed a 'thermal event' caused a power loss at a Virginia data center, triggering a May 2026 AWS outage - proving once again that the cloud is just someone else's very hot computer.

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Motorola's phones were secretly hijacking your Amazon clicks for affiliate cash - 'oops, totally unintended'Tech

Motorola's phones were secretly hijacking your Amazon clicks for affiliate cash - 'oops, totally unintended'

Motorola says affiliate tracking redirects found on some of its phones were 'unintended' and have been fixed - but the company hasn't explained how the behavior got there in the first place.

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Amazon told workers to use more AI, so workers invented fake work for the AI to doTech

Amazon told workers to use more AI, so workers invented fake work for the AI to do

Amazon employees are reportedly creating fake AI tasks just to meet internal AI usage pressure - because when you mandate AI adoption without clear direction, you get creative compliance instead of actual productivity.

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