{"id":4995,"date":"2025-10-20T23:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:13:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:13:31","slug":"top-tech-stories-of-the-week-october-19th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/top-tech-stories-of-the-week-october-19th-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tech Stories of the Week \u2013 October 19th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Amazon Web Services Outage Affects Snapchat, Fortnite &#8211; The Wrap | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/amazon-down-outage-aws-ring-snapchat-fortnite-venmo\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SpaceX launches 10,000th Starlink satellite, with no sign of slowing down &#8211; Ars Technica | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/10\/spacex-launches-10000th-starlink-satellite-with-no-sign-of-slowing-down\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Amazon\u2019s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions &#8211; Ars Technica | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/10\/amazons-dns-problem-knocked-out-half-the-web-likely-costing-billions\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Samsung Launches Galaxy XR: AI-Powered Headset Built with Google to take on Apple &amp; Meta \u2013 Outlook Business | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outlookbusiness.com\/technology\/samsung-launches-galaxy-xr-ai-powered-headset-built-with-google-to-take-on-apple-meta\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Apple hits $4 trillion milestone; Nvidia nears $5 trillion &#8211; NBC News | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/markets\/apple-market-value-hits-4-trillion-rcna240246\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Everyone thinks AI is replacing factory workers, but Amazon\u2019s layoffs show it\u2019s coming for middle management first &#8211; Fortune | <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2025\/10\/29\/amazon-layoffs-ai-middle-managers-robots-factory-workers\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Meta, Google, and Microsoft Triple Down on AI Spending &#8211; WIRED | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/microsoft-google-meta-2025-earnings\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>US government is getting closer to banning TP-Link routers &#8211; Engadget | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/cybersecurity\/us-government-is-getting-closer-to-banning-tp-link-routers-145528317.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meet Copilot Mode in Edge: Your AI Browser\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CLH8gU--YBU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services Outage Affects Snapchat, Fortnite &#8211; The Wrap | Link SpaceX launches 10,000th Starlink satellite, with no sign of slowing down &#8211; Ars Technica | Link Amazon\u2019s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions &#8211; Ars Technica | Link Samsung Launches Galaxy XR: AI-Powered Headset Built with Google to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}