The Guardian
October 20, 2025
Mike Chapple, IT professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, explains why DynamoDB is important, and why its failure has caused so much disruption today: "DynamoDB isn’t a term that most consumers know, but it underpins the apps and services that all of us use every single day. It’s a centralized database service that many Internet-based services use to track user information, store key data, and manage their operations. DynamoDB is one of the record-keepers of the modern Internet. It’s fast, it’s cheap, and it’s reliable. But today it stopped working and we saw the effects of that outage ripple across the Internet. We’ll learn more in the hours and days ahead but early reports indicate that this wasn’t actually a problem with the database itself. The data appears to be safe. Instead, something went wrong with the records that tell other systems where to find their data. Amazon had the data safely stored, but nobody else could find it for several hours, leaving apps temporarily separated from their data."
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Newsweek
October 20, 2025
Mike Chapple, a cybersecurity expert at the University of Notre Dame, described the disruption as “temporary amnesia” for the internet, noting that while data remained intact, systems couldn’t locate it.
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Mendoza
CNBC
October 20, 2025
Indeed, “DynamoDB isn’t a term that most consumers know,” Mike Chapple, IT professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business and former computer scientist with the National Security Agency, said in a statement. However, it “is one of the record-keepers of the modern Internet.” “We’ll learn more in the hours and days ahead but early reports indicate that this wasn’t actually a problem with the database itself. The data appears to be safe. Instead, something went wrong with the records that tell other systems where to find their data,” he added.
The Wall Street Journal
October 20, 2025
Amazon’s DynamoDB is one of the record-keepers of the modern internet, said Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame and former computer scientist with the National Security Agency. Chapple said the outage is a reminder of the world’s reliance on major cloud providers such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google. “When a major cloud provider sneezes, the Internet catches a cold,” he said.
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Mendoza
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Newsweek
October 16, 2025
PFOS is also "very bio-accumulative in biota," Graham Peaslee, a professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, told Newsweek, explaining that the chemicals will bioaccumulate in the insects, worms and larvae that the birds eat, and then in the birds too.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
Commonweal
October 16, 2025
By David Lantigua, an associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and codirector of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. Lantigua is currently completing a manuscript entitled "Social Revolution after Pope Francis."
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Theology
99 % Invisible
Audio
October 15, 2025
That’s Matthew Thomas Payne, Associate Professor at Notre Dame. He studies the relationship between the military and video games.
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Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
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Newsweek
October 15, 2025
Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频 and an expert on international law, warned that the administration’s actions appear to violate international legal norms. "Now it appears he has ordered the CIA to violate international law with covert actions in Venezuela,” O’Connell said in a statement to Newsweek. “Lawful law enforcement or military action on the territory of a foreign sovereign state must have the consent of that state,” she added.
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U.S. News & World Report
October 14, 2025
So, in theory, the customer should have been happy. Instead, what really made the difference for the bank was identifying the perpetrator. “We never thought in our wildest dreams that we'd actually find this in our study," says Vamsi Kanuri, associate professor of marketing at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business and one of the researchers who conducted the study. "Banks were very surprised."
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Mendoza College of Business
OSV News
October 13, 2025
James Sullivan, a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and co-founder and director of its Lab for Economic Opportunities, a center researching effective solutions to reduce poverty in America, agreed the exhortation emphasizes the indispensable role of care for the poor in the life of the faithful.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)