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First and foremost would be financial transactions, especially banks, that if these links were lost might be unable to make settlements and reconcile daily balances with overseas subsidiaries, partners, and correspondents. That would have a
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Ask HN: Are you prepared for loss of multiple trans-atlantic fibre-optic cables?
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Government seeks to gag BBC over spy story(telegraph.co.uk)
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Encryption: UK data watchdog criticises government campaign(bbc.com)
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by iam-TJ 5y ago
More likely there is no comment until the UK government makes the announcement public - rather than responding to 'informed sources'. BBC is caught between a rock and hard place. Its journalists 'need' to report the stor
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Last time the undersea fibre optic cables (international and local) were broken (2019-2020) [0] a Kacific [1] K-band satellite emergency link was installed for and by the Tonga ISP EziNet [2] and others. (the 2019 break was caused by a Turk
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by iam-TJ 5y ago
Title had to be trimmed to fit 80-character limit, from "Google's and Facebook's top execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves". This reports on an amended complaint filed Friday 14th January 2022. &qu
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Google and Facebook execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves(theregister.com)
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Chinese agent infiltrates UK Parliament, says MI5(bbc.com)
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WireGuard does not work with LLv6 by design
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Depending on what you mean by "needs a lot of signalling bandwidth" I think that is incorrect. I recall the early SMS functionality being added to cellular phones after the introduction of 2G in the early 1990s and as I recall, on
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by iam-TJ 5y ago
That sounds like how there were two versions of MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger/Windows Live - one for 'personal' and the other for 'enterprise'. Cannot quite recall the exact differentiation now but I do recal
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"Applications are now being accepted to participate in Europe’s newest cybersecurity demonstration, bringing together cybersecurity experts to help ESA and European industry keep critical space services secure and resilient." &quo
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Live demonstration for cyber resilience (European Space Agency)(esa.int)
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How about when the updated browser removes functionality that servers require? Especially in 'enterprisey' networks there are devices that /still/ require SSL, Java applets, Flash (urghh!), SSH v1 support, or features of
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by iam-TJ 5y ago
In mid 2020 in the UK, The National Health Service (NHS) began introducing "green" and "ultra-green" pathways, and designating zones or entire hospitals as 'green' (CoVid-19 free) sites. 'Green' and &
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by iam-TJ 5y ago
Partly it's about friction and grip - ploughs are dragged through the ground at depths up to 30cm, turning the soil through 180°. The power required to do that is considerable but most critically the grip the power unit (wheeled or tra
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by iam-TJ 5y ago
Increased consumption per-person as more people have improved economic circumstances. See "How to Sustainably Feed 10 Billion People by 2050, in 21 Charts" [0]. "There is a big shortfall between the amount of food we produce
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by iam-TJ 5y ago
As a Brit and in the interest of accuracy, Britain declared war on Germany both in 1914 [0] and 1939 [1] after an ultimatum to Germany expired. So technically 'we' did "start" the WORLD WARs (if we hadn't declared w
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DHCP protocol actively avoids specifying a policy - that is for the system administrator. It defines three 'mechanisms' for allocation [0]: * automatic == permanent address * dynamic == finite (time-limited) and possibly re-
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"Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks" [0] 26th September 2021 Yahoo News Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war pla
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by iam-TJ 5y ago
I guess there'll be some reaction to Craig White's comments: Mr Wright said the legal ruling confirmed he was the creator of the revolutionary digital asset. "The jury has obviously found that I am because there would have be
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Bitcoin 'founder' to keep 1m Bitcoin cache(bbc.com)
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Fortunately there's an FAQ^h^h^h Story about that: "A GDS Story" Introduction The most common questions we’re asked by visitors to GDS are things like: “How did it all start in the first place?” “How did you get whe
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RAF on high alert due to increased Arctic activity(ukdefencejournal.org.uk)
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Incorrect according to the CMA Reports' clause 3 and clause 63: Clause 3: Facebook completed the acquisition of GIPHY on 15 May 2020, but has been required to hold the businesses separate since 9 June 2020, when the CMA imposed an Init
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Press release from the Competition and Markets Authority: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-directs-facebook-to-s... Summary of final Report (30th November) https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/f
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This is a follow-on from the June 2020 Initial Enforcement Order (IEO) that Facebook repeatedly breached and, after two appeals, was fined £50.5m in October 2021 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-fines-faceboo
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Hedgerows were, and are, natural living fencing. For farmers with livestock 'hedge-laying' is something that needs doing every 50 years or so (if well maintained) to ensure the lower sections are animal proof. Take a look at the B
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by iam-TJ 5y ago
What got me most about this article is the ridiculous way RR described the power-pack: "Roll-Royce said it also had the most power-dense propulsion battery pack ever assembled in aerospace with enough power to charge 7,500 phones.&quot

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