Big Tech and the AI investment boom in underwater cables

Over 95% of international data and voice call traffic travels through nearly a million miles of underwater communication cables. These cables carry government communications, financial transactions, email, video calls and streaming around the world. The first commercial telecommunication subsea cable was used for telegraphs and was laid across the English Channel between Dover, England and…

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Amazon DNS outage breaks much of the internet

An outage affecting web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has affected large parts of the web, including websites, banks and some government services. Amazon said Monday morning that the outage had been “fully mitigated” and that most services were returning to normal after a long period of hours during which much of the Internet…

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