Biden Administration adds 16 new companies to Entity List
Restricted companies accused of posing a risk to US national security
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The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Biden administration moves ahead with much-criticized AI Diffusion legislation
Will seek to prohibit access to advanced AI chips and AI model weights
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NASA sun observatory operational after 2024 data center flood
No science data was lost
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Tech trade bodies caution Biden against implementing AI chip gatekeeping rule
Industry groups warn of "significant adverse consequences" if the legislation is rushed through
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Chinese owners seek buyer for British chip firm Imagination Technologies – report
The Chinese-government backed parent company has been accused of asset stripping and IP transfer during its time as owners
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Taiwanese subsea cable damaged by Chinese ship - report
Comes months after China accused of cutting cables in Baltic Sea
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ByteDance could spend $7bn to access Nvidia Blackwell chips outside China – report
Would make TikTok’s parent company one of Nvidia’s biggest customers
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NATO to enhance Baltic Sea military presence, as sixty-mile drag mark found near damaged cable
Hi-tech equipment found on suspected vessel
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Finnish authorities board ship suspected of cutting subsea Internet and power cables
Four Internet cables cut in latest Baltic Sea incident
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Japan's telcos forge disaster response agreement
The agreement will see the telcos work together to ensure connectivity is available when possible during natural disasters
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Nigeria's 9Mobile blames network outage on data center fire in Lagos
But previous fiber cuts caused by vandalism also impacted network
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AWS says power outage in nearby Swedish town was unrelated to its data center work
After local reports blamed the company for three outages
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US Commerce Department pushes ahead with ban on China Telecom
The recent hack against US carriers means the government wants to go after China Telecom's remaining units in the country
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Telstra pays $1.9m fine following emergency call failure earlier this year
The 90 minute outage happened in March
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Fire breaks out at Alibaba Cloud data center construction site
No impact on cloud services
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Internet disrupted in Syria amid rebel takeover of the country
Hama and Homs have been impacted the most reports NetBlocks
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Faulty comms system causes nationwide National Rail delays in UK
Several train lines have been significantly affected
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ITU and ICPC partner for subsea cable advisory group
Comes shortly after cable cuts in the Baltic Sea and increased concern about cable protection
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Burst pipe at NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory data center causes outage
"Several inches of water" in server room
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Data center power supply business Bender hit by ransomware attack
Production impacted, but no data was compromised
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Sweden-Finland terrestrial Internet cable cut, sabotage suspected
Less than a month after subsea cables were cut in a suspicious manner
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Danish telco TDC Net suffers telecoms outage, impacts emergency calls
The carrier has blamed a software update for the outage
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Former US telco worker sentenced to four years for conspiring to act with Chinese gov't
Ping Li spied on employers and Chinese dissidents
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Microsoft "investigating" limited Outlook and Teams outage
Mostly impacting European users
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US Senator says China-linked hack the "worst telecom hack in nation’s history"
It emerged that T-Mobile was the latest victim of the hack earlier this week
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Cutting of subsea cables in Baltic Sea likely an act of "sabotage" - German defense minister
"No one believes the cables were cut accidentally"
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Major British Airways outage delays flights
Flights grounded across Europe
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Helsinki-Rostock subsea cable between Finland and Germany severed
Cause of incident unknown, sabotage not ruled out