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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by pc86 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @09:21AM (#46512597)
ASML can also disable much of the equipment remotely, from Europe. So even if the buildings aren't actually bombed (they likely would be though), someone presses a button a few thousand miles away and most of it gets bricked anyway.
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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by krior on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:49PM (#46515772)
Dunno if I would trust any remote-bricking-capability in an environment where electronic warfare saturates all communication channels.
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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by pc86 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:57PM (#46516813)
I agree, I've often wondered if this is more of a dead man's switch where a signal gets transmitted every X minutes or something and if the system doesn't get a signal in some much-longer-but-not-weeks timeframe everything goes kaput.
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