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Submarine cable resilience | APNIC Blog
The estimated 1.5M kilometres of subsea communications cables underpins our global telecommunication services. This critical infrastructure faces serious challenges in the coming years.
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on: 2026-10-15
European Alternatives
European alternatives to popular US and Asian products and services: software, apps, electronics, cars, fashion and more, from companies headquartered in Europe.
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on: 2026-10-11
Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy
When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media – music, videos, games, and software – before their...
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on: 2026-09-18
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
In early February 2011 Egypt was in the middle of a political revolution. One morning, everyone's phones suddenly pinged with an alert. The Armed Forces asks Egypt's honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and criminals and protect our people and honour and our precious Egypt. A series of messages arrived all ostensibly from the network provider Vodafone. All pro-regime and all with the…
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on: 2026-08-19
How a Book Is Made
Have you ever wondered how a book becomes a book? Join us as we follow Marlon James’s “Moon Witch, Spider King” through the printing process.
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on: 2022-02-21
Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose desperate working conditions
At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site, operated by Cognizant in Tampa, FL one contractor has died, others have developed PTSD and fear for their lives.
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on: 2019-06-19
Google Fights Back – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
At Google I/O, Google was the opposite of defensive: the company set out to make the case that its approach made for better products that makes people’s lives better
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on: 2019-05-09
Color Spaces – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining color spaces and how they're used to express color.
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on: 2019-02-17
Invisible asymptotes — Remains of the Day
"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle." -
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on: 2018-05-29