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fromSilicon Canals
1 day ago

I traced who owns the undersea cables that carry 95% of global internet traffic - the map is a colonial one - Silicon Canals

Undersea fiber optic cables carry 95% of intercontinental internet traffic, with ownership patterns mirroring colonial-era trade routes and extraction geography.
fromWIRED
4 days ago

'Uncanny Valley': Pentagon vs. 'Woke' Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union

This week, the Uncanny Valley team dives into the feud that has been brewing between Anthropic and the Pentagon-and what it says about how the government interacts with tech companies. Later, Zoë Schiffer tells us why figuring out whether you are agentic or mimetic has become the new litmus test in Silicon Valley.
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