#инфраструктура
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Google and Meta subsea cables in the Pacific among the most exposed to sabotage
US-owned trans-Pacific undersea cables face growing risks from sabotage. China's activity around this infrastructure is adding to Big Tech's concerns.
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Goodbye to the leap second: global timekeeping rewrites the rules
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures has voted to abolish the leap second. The move was brought forward over fears that, for the first time, time would have to be subtracted rather than added.
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GitHub blames its seven-hour August 17 outage on overloaded infrastructure
GitHub's CTO explained that the second major outage in August was caused not by a code bug but by a capacity shortfall: the service failed to scale in time for record traffic.
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Iran, a Minnesota Water System, and the Theory That the State Hacked Itself
Bruce Schneier draws attention to cyberattacks, reportedly linked to Iran, that targeted U.S. water systems. The White House's official response turned out to be unexpected.
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Data Centers Now Consume 23% of Ireland's Electricity
Data centers' share of Ireland's total energy consumption has reached 23%, new data shows. The report sparked a lively discussion on Hacker News.
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The Fight Against Building AI Data Centers Is Only Just Beginning
The Verge notes that long before the artificial intelligence boom began threatening local power grids, discontent over the large-scale construction of data centers had already been building in nearby communities.