DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Security & Risk
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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IT systems in southern Italy back online after data center outage
The regional government ruled out a cyberattack
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Another data center in Kyiv taken offline by Russian strikes
Dline.ua facility taken down, follows strikes on numerous others data centers in the city
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Australian telcos activate temporary disaster roaming agreement
The service went live today and will enable customers to switch to alternative carrier during severe weather events
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Russian drones enter into Moldovan airspace, collides with comms tower
After the collision the drone exploded
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Data center in Kyiv, Ukraine, suffers "critical damage" and goes offline after Russian bomb attack
Moscow continues to target digital infrastructure
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Comcast deploys fiber sensing tech to monitor network in real-time
The technology uses fiber lines to detect and pinpoint activity along Comcast's network
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Fire at data center in Seoul, South Korea, sees 100 people evacuated
Blaze thought to have started in UPS room of STTGDC facility
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Russian drones strike Ukrainian telcos and data center operators as part of targeted attacks
Kyivstar's HQ in Kyiv was struck in latest attack on capital
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Australian Senate calls for nationalized Triple Zero service following several high-profile outages
Telstra operates the system that connects Australian phone calls to 000
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Comms circuit failure and backup fiber cable cut blamed for Monday's major Northeast US airport disruption
Services have since been restored after the double failure
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Russia claims strikes on De Novo data center in Kyiv, Ukraine
Strikes were part of a wider infrastructure attack
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AWS “unable to restore access” to data centers hit by Iran strikes
Damage exceeded what availability zone-design designed to withstand
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Russian drone attack hits Kyivstar office in Ukraine
The telco confirms nobody was injured
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Villagers tie 5G technician to pole in protest over poor cellular coverage in India
As locals decide that poor mobile coverage means it's ok to restrain technicians looking to fix it
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Iron Mountain sues UK's Home Office over £140m passport contract bid
Firm says it was unable to submit tender after government department quadrupled potential penalties at short notice
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Oil leak from data center contaminates water in Bangkok, Thailand
Officials moved swiftly to clean up spill before it could harm residents
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Police arrest man for vandalizing cell tower in Hawkins County, Tennessee
As the investigation remains ongoing
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ASC cable break causes connectivity disruption between Perth and Singapore
Repairs are underway
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Two men arrested over copper theft in Lyon County, Kentucky
Follows an investigation into several copper theft reports
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Telstra confirms July outage was caused by network timing system failure
As independent report finds that the Australian carrier failed to react to previous warnings after 2020 network upgrade
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Man sentenced to prison for operating rogue telecoms infrastructure in Lancashire, UK
The man created rogue mobile antenna to send out fraudulent texts
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India mulls removal of legacy Chinese telecoms kit - report
Could India become the latest market to rip and replace Chinese telecoms equipment?
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ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok hit by simultaneous outages
People forced to think for themselves
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Four of Vietnam's subsea cables suffer faults, leading to fresh connectivity outages for country
Not for the first time in recent years
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Privacy-focused email service Proton goes down after cooling failure in Frankfurt data center
CEO admits "we fucked up" after slow failover
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Canada's CityWest to construct new fiber route along Highway 37 in effort to boost network resiliency
It comes after recent disruption to Internet services in the region
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Crop duster plane crashes into radio tower in Oregon, pilot in critical condition
A witness pulled the pilot out of the wreckage
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Vandals attack Openreach network in Bedminster and Chippenham, UK
The UK fiber provider said the two incidents were separate attacks