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October 29, 2025An Amazon outage nearly took out the whole internet. Here’s just how big it was.“Pretty much everything that uses IT services has some connection to the cloud,” Chapple said in an interview with Huffington Post. “So when you have one of these massive data centers having an outage, you’re going to see effects all across the economy.”
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October 28, 2025Fed struggles to assess state of US economy as government shutdown shuts off key dataFinance professor Jason Reed discusses how the U.S. government shutdown has hindered data collection and reporting that impacts decision making.
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October 27, 2025In Memoriam: William Nichols, Professor Emeritus of AccountancyBill Nichols, who passed away October 13, leaves a lasting legacy as a humble and dedicated teacher, scholar and administrator.
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October 26, 2025AI is separating privacy from the personalAfter 25 years studying data privacy, tech analytics professor Heng Xu says researchers need to start over.
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October 25, 2025Finance professor questions how NBA figures found themselves in gambling scandalFinance professor emeritus Richard Sheehan weighed in on the NBA illegal gambling schemes in a Fox News interview.
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October 24, 2025When and how to respond to controversial topics in the workplaceEmployees at every level increasingly face decisions about whether — and how — to act when controversial issues arise at work.
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October 23, 2025Inside the nondescript Virginia warehouse that wiped out the internet with one outage… and the neighbors who warn the next one is just a matter of time“DynamoDB isn’t a term that most consumers know,' said Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame. 'But it underpins the apps and services that all of us use every single day.'
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October 21, 2025An AWS outage impacted your favorite websites. It’s now been resolved.Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame, said in a statement to USA TODAY that the incident is a reminder of the world's dependency on a handful of cloud service providers, including AWS.
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October 20, 2025AWS ‘returned to normal operations’ after major outageCybersecurity expert Mike Chapple told the Associated Press that a "slow and bumpy recovery process" amid an outage like this is “entirely normal.”
Newsweek