DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores
theguardian.com
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DeepSeek offers for free/extremely cheap, a very expensive to provide service, requiring huge server infrastructure, to a userbase that probably grew by 3+ orders of magnitude in the last week.
There's no way they weren't going to be forced to throttle user signups, "cyberattack" or not.
Seems to be a major player at play here. What a lowly move though, gives me sore loser vibes.
Anyone with knowledge in this domain willing to speculate on the origins of this attack?
How is this not front page HN??
To be fair, I recently posted a prolonged Anthropic complete API outage (when Sonnet 3.5 was best in town) and it got zero traction, so it's not unimaginable.
Agreed it's a bit suprising though.