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Railway Cloud Infrastructure Throttles Builds After Google Cloud Outage
On Monday, Railway, a provider of cloud infrastructure services, decided to throttle software builds by customers in its lowest paying tiers to accommodate unexpected demand for service following the Google Cloud Platform outage last week. Angelo Saraceno, solutions engineer for Railway, explained the situation to The Register following a complaint from a customer who expressed concern about service interruption. "Railway has seen significant workload growth, particularly from users migrating off GCP [Google Cloud Platform] and Heroku," said Saraceno via email. "As a result, when platform resources get strained, we degrade service in tiers: first builds, then signups, starting with the...
Mike Lindell Found Liable for Defaming Dominion Voting Systems Executive: Jury Awards $2.3 Million in Damages
Mike Lindell speaks at CPAC earlier this year. Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images A jury in Colorado federal court found that MyPillow founder Mike Lindell was liable for defaming an executive of Dominion Voting Systems in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Lindell was one of the foremost conspiracy theorists in pushing claims that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. He has been a staunch defender of Trumps, while his company has been a unbiquitous advertiser on Fox News and other outlets. The jury awarded the executive, Eric Coomer, $2.3 million in damages, per the AP. Coomer was the...
Indian Army Veteran Among Seven Killed in Tragic Helicopter Crash
Captain Rajveer Singh Chauhan was among the seven killed after the helicopter carrying pilgrims of t (Image: Supplied) A catastrophic helicopter crash in the early hours of Sunday morning has claimed the lives of seven people, including a highly decorated Indian Army veteran, near Gaurikund in Uttarakhands Rudraprayag district. The tragic incident unfolded shortly after a Bell 407 helicopter, operated by Aryan Aviation Pvt Ltd, took off from the Kedarnath shrine at 5:19 AM en route to Guptkashi. Minutes later, the chopper went down in a dense, fog-shrouded forest between Gaurikund and Triyuginarayan, erupting into flames upon impact. Rescue teams...
