There's an internet choke point in the Middle East - is the solution in the North Pole?
The Red Sea cuts spurred companies and governments to look for alternate routes, and the Strait of Hormuz seemed promising. Then the US and Israel attacked Iran, cable projects were halted, and now the world is looking elsewhere once again.
QCon London 2026: Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet
Spritely provides foundational technologies to decentralize the internet through encryption, federation, and local-first software, enabling user control and resilient applications.
X experienced a widespread outage on Wednesday morning affecting thousands of users, with over 33,000 error reports recorded on DownDetector by mid-morning.
Box CEO Aaron Levie's advice to developers? Build software that cash-holding AI agents - not humans - want to use
AI agents are becoming the internet's largest users, requiring fundamental restructuring of software and online infrastructure to optimize for machine interaction rather than human user experience.
Cogent Communications Carries the Internet but Its Stock Has Been Crushed
Cogent Communications operates a critical internet backbone infrastructure across 57 countries while its legacy Sprint business declines, but high-capacity wavelength services are surging 73.7% year-over-year, positioning the company for significant growth.
X experienced multiple global outages this week, including a major three-hour blackout caused by a Cloudflare configuration change that disrupted many services.