# Episode 782: Sure, the code took Amazon down for six hours, but at least it’s commented

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Podcast: [The PC Pro Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-pc-pro-podcast-1082134)
Published: 2026-03-12T14:03:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 3564

## Resource

The team looks at Amazon’s embarrassing AI-related outages, asks whether BBC iPlayer should join forces with other major UK broadcasters and weighs up a Norwegian initiative aimed at reversing the trend for everything in technology to gradually get worse and worse (you know the term). As occasionally happens, our Hot Hardware candidate is in fact a piece of software, specifically a real-time transcription tool called Typeless that uses AI to turn your spoken words directly into polished prose. And if you want to read the Forbrukerrådet report referred to by Lee, you can find the English version here: https://storage02.forbrukerradet.no/media/2026/02/breaking-free-pathways-to-a-fair-technological-future.pdf

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