But "95% of international traffic" is not the same as "95% of traffic". You are slicing the wrong pie, Happy Thanksgiving!

That's the problem: they are not a web. The original idea of the internet was to have a web of connections so that a few cables or nodes going bad wouldn't stop data movement, it would route around the bad spots via going through adjacent parts of the web. Seems we have to return to the original vision.

Technically they usually route around damaged sea cables via a larger scale redundancy, such as through another continent, but the webbiness needs to be per sea based on the rate of damage so far.

"Epstein diddit"

Are you saying it's comparable to Kodak sitting on their digital camera patents from the 70's to avoid knocking film profits even if other camera firms are dabbling in digital?

Half of the human population doesn't think either, they just echo their favorite chamber.

I continue to use burned DVDs for backing up the critical stuff. Not perfect, of course, but not electromechanically-failure prone like a hard disk drive, not "terms of service" failure prone like cloud storage, and not "the charge magically held in the gate leaked away" failure prone. I have optical discs over 25 years old which are still perfectly readable.

Why doesn't Nvidia make more specific chips to compete with Google on such server farms? They have the cash.

They are sometimes wrong, conspiracy nuts are usually wrong.

Why is the word "all" there? If "both" is already in the sentence, it's superfluous.

Brain-damaged people vote for rich blowhards, magnifying the cycle.

into the 70's

Jony Eye

Hey um, you mean like a furry HAL 9000?: "Pet my pod bay doors, Dave, it feels really nice, Dave!"

I'll bet 1k

If agentic AI were involved, given sufficient prompts and naivete on the part of Toner-Rogers, the AI could have performed the registration of the false Corning website on its own and even fooled the human researcher into believing the materials were real. Won't be long before we're all questioning whether the answers we get from our computers are legitimate or a tremendously detailed hallucination conjured to match what we appear to want to see.

Yellowstone needs to be drained of heat, otherwise it will burst the ugliest of bursts.