Bowman Hall

Founder @awardsecrets / investor / ex GM @DXC & VP @IBM & COO @virtualclarity

[Bowman Hall @bnhall]

Flying @AmericanAir Flagship from Athens, this is the lounge - skip it.

[Bowman Hall @bnhall]

Built this from Austin. Cathay Business Class award space that no other tool can find — direct from airline reservation systems, not scraped. @OneMileataTime @FrequentMiler would love your take.

[AwardSecrets AI @awardsecrets]

Multiple premium seats together are the holy grail of award travel.

Check out this live pull for Cathay Business Class HKG→LAX in March 2027. 5 seats open on one flight.

Real-time GDS data straight from the source. No web scrapers, no phantom caches.

https://t.co/gM4r976KEZ

[Bowman Hall @bnhall]

@FrequentMiler your award search tool comparison is missing one - https://t.co/FYbld3cMUg searches 51 airlines via Amadeus GDS including CX, JL & QR QSuites that other tools can't see. AI-powered, realtime (not cached). Worth a chat?

[Bowman Hall @bnhall]

@OneMileataTime Hey Ben - I built a tool which finds CX biz & JL 1st award space that seats dot aero can't see. 51+ airlines via Amadeus GDS, AI-powered. Would love your take. https://t.co/FYbld3cMUg. (I'm Austin-based - meet up?)

[Bowman Hall @bnhall]

@LiveandLetsFly @united And there will likely be snow!

[Bowman Hall @bnhall]

@talktojpierce With Tony Dungy?

[Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺 @witte_sergei]

I am monitoring the ongoing Ngogo Chimp Civil War in Kibale National Park. Chimp Group Center appears to be on the verge of routing. They've retreated from the Primate Lodge and their Alpha Male, Morton, appears to be heavily wounded or perhaps KIA.

[Citrini @citrini]

Mic drop.

[Slashdot @slashdot]

Internet Bug Bounty Pauses Payouts, Citing 'Expanding Discovery' From AI-Assisted Research https://t.co/2Kv84wrEmC

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

If you see something, say something - if any amateur astronomers have something strange they want us to take a look at, let me know!

[Amanda Goodall @thejobchick]

HOLY F: Workday just lost the argument that matters most.

A federal judge said their AI hiring tools can be challenged for filtering out applicants over 40.

“The algorithm did it” is NOT a defense.

If this holds… every company using automated hiring just stepped into legal risk.

You’re not crazy... if you’ve applied to 50, 100, 200 jobs and heard nothing… The system itself may be filtering you out.

The decision means the plaintiffs may continue pursuing claims that Workday’s technology had a disparate impact on applicants age 40 and older. - SHRM

Judge Lin dismissed some California claims and one disability claim, but gave plaintiffs until March 27 to revise and refile.

[Bowman Hall @bnhall]

@Wayfair @jossandmain As you're not following me, I think you need to PM me first

[Bowman Hall @bnhall]

.@Wayfair Driver for my $3,500 @jossandmain
full-service delivery called saying he’d arrive in 45 minutes then cancelled claiming no parking and festival access issues. Neither is true (5th St Austin). Support only offers rescheduling. #TerribleService

[Bowman Hall @bnhall]

@Wayfair Driver for my $3,500 @jossandmain full-service delivery called saying he’d arrive in 45 minutes then cancelled claiming no parking and festival access issues. Neither is true (5th St Austin). Support only offers rescheduling. #TerribleService

[Bowman Hall @bnhall]

These are ominous

[Shortwave Observer @shortwave78]

⚠️🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷
Farsi/Persian-language ciphered broadcast, known as Numbers-Station “V32” on 7842kHz.
Very loud and clear via Kiwi webSDR in 🇬🇷Greece at 02:00 UTC March 11 2026

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Amazon had four Sev-1 outages (their highest severity level) in a single week. Internal memos say AI-assisted code changes were a contributing factor.

The timeline here is wild. In October 2025, Amazon laid off 14,000 corporate employees. In January 2026, another 16,000. That’s about 30,000 people in five months, roughly 10% of the corporate workforce. CEO Andy Jassy said the cuts were about culture, not AI.

During those same months, Amazon set a target: 80% of developers using AI coding tools at least once a week. They tracked adoption closely and blocked rival tools like OpenAI’s Codex. Even so, 30% of developers still hadn’t touched Amazon’s in-house tool Kiro by January.

In December 2025, Kiro caused a 13-hour AWS outage. The AI tool had production-level permissions and decided the best fix for a bug was to delete and recreate an entire live environment. A second incident involved Amazon Q Developer, another AI tool. Amazon blamed both on “user error, not AI.” But quietly added mandatory peer review for all production access afterward.

Then March 5: Amazon’s retail site went down for about six hours. Over 22,000 users reported checkout failures, missing prices, and app crashes. Amazon called it a “software code deployment” error.

Five days later, SVP Dave Treadwell made the normally optional weekly engineering meeting mandatory. His memo acknowledged “GenAI tools supplementing or accelerating production change instructions, leading to unsafe practices.” These problems trace back to Q3 2025. Amazon’s own assessment: their GenAI safeguards “are not yet fully established.”

The new rule: junior and mid-level engineers now need senior sign-off on any AI-assisted production changes. Treadwell also announced “controlled friction” for the most critical parts of the retail experience.

For context, Google’s 2025 DORA report found 90% of developers use AI for coding but only 24% trust it “a lot.” An Uplevel study of 800 developers found Copilot users introduced 41% more bugs with no improvement in output. Amazon is finding out what those numbers look like at the scale of a $500 Billion revenue company, with 30,000 fewer people on staff to catch the mistakes.

[Matteo Franceschetti @m_franceschetti]

We're building a sleep agent that predicts your night before it happens. Then optimizes it while you sleep.

This is what AI in health actually looks like.

[Bowman Hall @bnhall]

@WTA 1000

[Matteo Franceschetti @m_franceschetti]

Today we're announcing a new round of funding that values @eightsleep at $1.5 billion, led by @tether Investments.

Ten years ago I started Eight Sleep with one conviction: the night is the most underutilized lever in human health. Almost nobody was engineering their sleep.

Last year, we hit free cash flow positivity, launched 3 new products, expanded to 34 countries, and published peer-reviewed studies showing the Pod reduces menopausal hot flashes by 56% and restores the body's natural circadian temperature rhythm during sleep, lowering core body temperature and improving cardiovascular recovery. A product you sleep on is producing clinical outcomes that rival pharmaceutical interventions.

We're now building a predictive AI agent trained on 1B+ hours of sleep data. It anticipates your night before it happens.

And we're advancing FDA filings for sleep apnea detection. Passive. Every night. No wires, no clinic visits.

The night is just the beginning.

[ثامر الغالي @alghali]

‼️ تطور غير مسبوق: صاروخ إيراني يضرب منطقة توافر خدمات أمازون السحابية (AWS) وتحديداً النطاق (mec1-az2)، مما أدى إلى توقفها عن العمل بالكامل!

حدث تقني وجيوسياسي لافت يوضح تأثير الصراعات العسكرية على البنية التحتية للإنترنت. ☁️💥