Google announces new transatlantic internet cable connecting US and Europe by Aditya Tiwari
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Google announced it is laying a new transatlantic subsea internet cable between the US and Europe, called Sol. The name of the fiber optic cable is derived from the Spanish and Portuguese word "Sol," which translates to "sun." It represents the cable system's landing points in warmer climates.
The new subsea cable will connect the US state of Florida, Bermuda, the Azores, and Spain. Palm Coast in Florida will serve as the anchor point in the US, where Google will partner with DC BLOX to land the cable and create a new connectivity hub.
Google will then create a terrestrial route to link Palm Coast to its South Carolina cloud region. In Spain, the search giant will land the cable in Santander and connect it with its data centers in Madrid.
The search giant said that Sol will be manufactured in the US and will enhance the capacity of its data center network, comprising 42 Google Cloud regions. It will run in parallel with the previously announced Nuvem subsea cable, which connects South Carolina, Bermuda, the Azores, and Portugal. Nuvem is expected to be operational sometime in 2026.
When it launches, Sol will be the only in-service fiber-optic cable between Florida and Europe, as per the company. Its Palm Coast Cable Landing Station (CLS), being built on 20 acres of land, is expected to be operational by Q1 2027.
Google notes that the upcoming transatlantic subsea cable "will add capacity, increase reliability, and decrease latency for Google users" around the world. However, it hasn't dropped any official word about the bandwidth or capacity of Sol.
The upcoming subsea cable will complement Google's other cable systems like Equiano (Europe to Africa), Firmina (US to South America), and Grace Hopper (US to the UK and Spain). It's interesting to note that Google is associated with over 30 submarine cable projects and owns several of them.
While it's not a new concept, laying cables underwater is a growing trend among leading tech companies that aim to build data center networks and create more bandwidth for new AI-powered features. Microsoft and Meta have also been in the game for several years. Meta is investing billions of dollars in a new 50,000 km internet cable that will wrap around the world.
I think it's becoming more and more important to not have tons of services tied to logins via Google/Microsoft/FB accounts...if any one of those bans/blocks your account, it affects way more than just those company's services. For e-mail, owning a domain would seem to be the best way to go (which is also supported by Proton Mail and many others), in which case no matter what ###### happens, you can't really lose access to your e-mail address.
X CEO steps down just hours after Grok's pro-Hitler outburst by David Uzondu
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X CEO Linda Yaccarino has announced that she is stepping down from the top job. This comes just hours after X's AI chatbot, Grok, had some problematic content pulled offline, after it drew significant backlash from users.
You have to figure running X is a tough gig right now, maybe one of the toughest in tech. Yaccarino landed the job two years ago, back in June 2023, coming over from NBCUniversal, where she previously worked and was the Executive VP and COO of Advertising Sales, Marketing, and Acquisitions.
The thinking at the time seemed to be that with her advertising connections and experience, she could bring back brands that got spooked after Elon Musk bought the company. It has been a struggle getting those advertisers comfortable again.
Yaccarino put out a statement published on X about leaving. She wrote about the opportunity she had carrying out the company's mission with Elon Musk, protecting free speech, turning things around, and working to transform "X into the Everything App," adding she was "immensely grateful to him" for trusting her with the responsibility.
She did not give a specific reason for packing it in. A replacement has not been announced yet either.
Her time leading X has been eventful, to say the least. She had to navigate the departure of many key people, figure out how to bring back users, and, critically, work with advertisers while the company's owner, Elon Musk, did things that sometimes made those advertisers incredibly uncomfortable. Remember that time at the DealBook conference when, asked about advertisers pausing spending, he told them to "Go f--- yourself"?
While we do not know the exact timing correlation, her stepping down announcement coming the same day as the big blow-up over Grok praising Adolf Hitler, which led to its text generation being paused, makes you wonder.
You seem to forget that Hezbollah and Hamas have been launching rockets into Israel daily for decades and have been sending suicide bombers to blow up civilians in pizza cafes and busses...not military targets.
You also seem to have confused Hamas' building of command and control centers below schools and hospitals with Israel for some reason. You can find Israel's C&C and bases on any map, mate. You have to dig down a bit to find Hamas and Hezbollah.
In short, this region has been killing each other and themselves for thousands of years. That's why most Americans don't care about the "Palestinian cause" anymore than the Arabs do.
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