DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Physical Security, Sebastian Moss, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Suspect arrested after Molotov cocktail attack against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home
Same individual believed to have threatened OpenAI's headquarters
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Iran's Sharif University of Technology hit in US-Israel strikes, destroying HPC data center
Attack occurred ahead of temporary ceasefire
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Iran threatens to attack OpenAI's Stargate data center in UAE
After hitting Amazon and Oracle data centers
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Iran threatens to attack energy and IT infrastructure if Trump targets power plants
After AWS data centers were hit early on in the war
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Iranian state-affiliated news agency claims AWS data center drone strikes were deliberate
As part of attacks that also impacted AWS' Middle Eastern Ground Station
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Israel and US bomb data centers in Tehran, following Iran's drone strikes on AWS
As data centers increasingly become targets in war
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Verizon cell tower worker accidentally shot by Air Force personnel in Wyoming
Injuries were not life threatening
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Oracle hiring for Abilene, Texas, Stargate data center roles
Join the first Oracle-OpenAI mega data center
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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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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions nation-state nuclear-powered supercomputers surrounded by machine guns
That sure would spice up DCD's data center tours
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Amazon's Q generative AI chatbot allegedly leaks location of AWS data centers - report
According to AWS documents that have also leaked
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TikTok's Virginia data centers allowed unescorted visitors, unmarked flash drives in servers, and unattended boxes of hard drives
Short-term thinking for short-form video site
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CBO finds no additional costs from Federal Data Center Enhancement Act 2023
Would improve physical and digital security of federal data centers
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"Be willing to destroy a rogue data center by airstrike" - leading AI alignment researcher pens Time piece calling for ban on large GPU clusters
Eliezer Yudkowsky claims the risk of new AI systems puts all of humanity at risk, so we should take drastic measures
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Saboteurs cut fiber cables in France, in second incident this year
Outages and slowdowns around the world - but who is behind the attacks?
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Three people in critical condition after "electrical incident" and explosion at Google Iowa data center
Appears to be due to an arc flash event at the substation
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Malaysian state government services brought offline by server room fire
Cause is currently unknown
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Suspected arson attack on BT network causes outage in Kent, UK
It is not known if the attack is related to Covid-19 conspiracy theories
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Local police brought in to protect Swiss SWIFT data center, after Russia is booted from financial messaging system
In case of sabotage or protests
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Anarchists attack Greek government data center with petrol bombs; "next time we will not attack windows and walls"
No one hurt in nighttime attack
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Apple's Chinese data centers store encryption keys in same facility as user data
New report details compromises company made to operate in China
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FedRAMP allows 3PAOs to undertake remote assessments of data centers due to Covid-19
Third Party Assessment Organizations won't have to travel to cloud facilities
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Virginia businessman given 18 months for bribing FBI official over Pocatello data center contract
$128,000 in bribes to help win millions in contracts
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Man detained after bringing handgun to Microsoft data center
The man was recently fired as a security guard at the site
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Feds say man accused of wanting to blow up the Internet was radicalized by Internet
Claim the man was ready to kill, had maps planning attack
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Man charged with planning to blow up Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia
Suspect is also thought to have been at the Capitol attack, allegedly wanted to take down 70 percent of the Internet
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UK's Royal Navy to build new surveillance ship to "protect" submarine cables
Claims that Russia poses a threat to UK Internet connectivity
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NYPD warns white supremacists and conspiracy theorists are targeting cell towers, critical infrastructure
One attack took out the battery system of a Virginian cell tower