The cloud giant Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday leading to cascading outages that took down wide swaths of the web . Monday’s meltdown illustrated the world’s fundamental reliance on so-called hyperscalers like AWS and the challenges for major cloud providers and their customers alike when things go awry . See below for more about how the outage occurred.

US Justice Department indictments in a mob-fueled gambling scam reverberated through the NBA on Thursday. The case includes allegations that a group backed by the mob was using hacked card shufflers to con victims out of millions of dollars—an approach that WIRED recently demonstrated in an investigation into hacking Deckmate 2 card shufflers used in casinos.

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