Janko Roettgers
Amazon’s newest streaming stick is missing a Spotify app.
Spotify hasn’t launched a native app for Amazon’s new Vega OS yet, so Amazon built a clunky workaround for the first Fire TV stick running Vega.
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Jay Peters
Amazon’s NFT metaverse avatars sold out in less than a day.
The “Boximus” avatars are for Yuga Labs’ Otherside metaverse, and they cost $65.99 each while they were available. If you’re really disappointed you missed out on a chance to own a digital, anthropomorphized Amazon box, you can buy one on the resale market.
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The hardware finally feels ready, but Alexa Plus is still a work in progress.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
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The Atmos smart speaker goes up against the HomePod 2… and wins.
John Higgins
Jay Peters
Amazon is slowing down its work on MMOs.
As part of the layoffs announced today, according to an executive memo reported on by Bloomberg, “we have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work – specifically around MMOs – within Amazon Game Studios.”
History tells us that Warner Bros. Discovery’s plan to sell itself is probably going to end in disaster.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Robert Hart
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
iRobot has no buyer and no money.
The Roomba robot vacuum maker reported in a regulatory filing that its last potential buyer has withdrawn. The company, which has been seeking a sale since its deal with Amazon was scuppered by EU regulatory scrutiny, warned it could be forced to seek bankruptcy.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy called it “a sad story” and an example of regulation gone wrong in an interview with CNBC today.
Emma Roth
Amazon is reportedly planning to lay off up to 30,000 corporate workers.
Sources tell Reuters and Bloomberg that the job cuts could start on Tuesday, potentially impacting almost 10 percent of Amazon’s 350,000 corporate employees across logistics, gaming, payments, and cloud computing teams.
Amazon last held a major round of job cuts at the end of 2022 and into 2023, when it laid off 27,000 workers.
Thomas Ricker
Stop trying to make “cobot” happen.
GM — on the latest Decoder — used the word “cobot” in a transparent bid to assuage workers concerned that the robots operating alongside them will soon replace them. As we learned this week from Amazon’s proposed usage of the friendlier term: human replacement is definitely the plan.
Stevie Bonifield
Amazon breaks down the DynamoDB DNS problem that took down AWS on Monday.
This detailed summary shows some of the issues that caused the October 20th outage and took swaths of the internet offline for roughly 15 hours.
Amazon says its changes in response include temporarily disabling DynamoDB DNS Planner, adding “additional protections” to prevent applying incorrect DNS entries, and improving its testing to identify the kind of recovery problems that caused the outage to drag on.
Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
[Amazon Web Services, Inc.]
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