CoinDesk
Bitcoin can survive 72% of the world's submarine cables being cut, but a targeted attack on five hosting providers could cripple it
A Cambridge study spanning 11 years and 68 verified cable failures found that Bitcoin's physical infrastructure is far more ...
Meta's massive undersea cable project delayed in Persian Gulf as Iran conflict escalates
Meta's 2Africa undersea cable project has hit another geopolitical snag, this time in the Persian Gulf. According to Bloomberg, Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), the company responsible ...
Meta halts Persian Gulf segment of massive underwater cable due to Iran war
Meta Platforms Inc. has paused part of a massive effort to expand internet service across Africa as the war in the Middle ...
Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers
This is Colossus: a data center that Musk’s artificial-intelligence company, xAI, is using as a training ground for Grok, one ...
US-Iran war: Meta’s major Persian Gulf cable project suspended
Meta has reportedly paused work on a segment of its 2Africa underwater cable project in the Persian Gulf due to safety concerns for its French contractor amid the US-Iran conflict. This disruption, ...
Rest of World
The Gulf built oil pipelines to avoid Hormuz. It’s now doing the same for data
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE are financing competing data corridors through Syria, Iraq, and East Africa to bypass the ...
Can Shutting Of Strait Of Hormuz Amid US-Israel-Iran War Impact India’s Internet? Explained
The cables in this area carry approximately 37% of global internet traffic. Can it affect India's data services? Explained ...
Carlsbad hub proposed for undersea data cable between US and Australia
A group of technology companies has applied for permits to build a hub near the beach in Carlsbad that would connect the United States with New Zealand and Australia via fiber-optic cables stretching ...
Lifehacker
10 Hacks Every Meta Quest User Should Know
Meta's strategy for its Quest 3 and 3S VR headsets is clearly to make virtual and mixed reality as easy, fun, and affordable as possible, but they might have done the job a little too well. All that ...
TechCrunch
Meta strikes up to $100B AMD chip deal as it chases ‘personal superintelligence’
Meta plans to purchase potentially up to $100 billion worth of AMD chips, enough to drive roughly six gigawatts of data center power demand, the companies announced Tuesday. As part of the multiyear ...
Wired
Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible
Sharks are innocent. Or at least they’re not eating the internet. As a family of cartilaginous fish, sharks are collectively not guilty of most, if not all, charges of biting, chomping, chewing, or ...
The Royal Gazette
Bermuda’s red carpet instead of red tape for subsea cables
Subsea cable expert Fiona Beck, an adviser to the Bermuda Business Development Agency, says Bermuda has become a model for subsea cable investment by streamlining its permitting process to just 70 ...