#sitedeath — Public Fediverse posts

The Register: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it. “Earlier this week, AWS added the Amazon SageMaker AI – Mechanical Turk service to its list of ‘Services in Maintenance’ – AWS-speak for services it will soon retire. The Mechanical Turk website also added a warning that it will ‘be closed to new customers, effective July 30, 2026. […]

Gizmodo: VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow. “This week, Rec Room, a popular VR meeting place and metaverse of sorts, announced that it would be shutting down on June 1. The reason? Business, of course.”