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A massive AWS outage Monday that brought down some of the world’s most popular apps and services all started with a glitch. The bug – which occurred when two automated systems were trying to update the same data simultaneously – snowballed into something significantly more serious that Amazon’s engineers scrambled to fix, the company said Thursday in a postmortem assessment. …

Jupiter was shaping Earth’s fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its building blocks from plunging into the sun, a new study finds. Led by scientists at Rice University in Houston, the study suggests Jupiter’s early growth cut off the flow of gas and dust toward the inner solar system, preventing the …