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  Amazon says its online cloud, which provides the infrastructure on which many websites rely, has fended off the largest DDoS attack in history. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are designed to knock a website offline by flooding it with huge amounts of requests until it crashes. Amazon Web Services (AWS) said the February attack had fired 2.3Tbps. That is a little under half of all traffic BT sees on its entire UK network during a normal working day. The previous record, set in 2018, was 1.7Tbps. “This is…

Uber will honor Juneteenth and elections days around the world as company holidays, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced Wednesday. “To embrace the meaning of #Juneteenth this year, we’re making it a paid day off. We encourage employees to spend it in a way that allows them to stand up against racism, whether that’s by learning, participating in a community action, or reflecting on how to make change,” Khosrowshahi said on Twitter. “But I strongly believe that lasting change really happens at the ballot box. That’s why we are making election days around…

Contact-tracing apps being used to prevent the spread of coronavirus could be collecting deeply personal information, Amnesty International has said. The organisation claims the privacy and security of hundreds of thousands of people have been put at risk by the new platforms. Contact-tracing apps are software that informs people when they have been in contact with someone who has contracted the coronavirus. These vary in terms of features, but can generally be separated into two categories: decentralised apps, where the data is kept on the device, and centralised apps where the…