meet willow: google's quantum chip advancement
promising progress in quantum computing technology
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reading: last entry point: stories of danger and death in the boundary waters (joe friedrichs)
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reading: antarctica (kim stanley robinson)
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meta plans $10B global subsea cable
facebook parent company's massive investment in worldwide underwater internet infrastructure
feds urge americans to use encryption they've been fighting against
ironic cybersecurity guidance while america's war readiness questioned
drones with fiber: long-leash UAVs beat jammers
russia and ukraine deploy fiber optic tethered drones that can't be electronically disrupted
in praise of print: physical books in an era of epistemological collapse
why reading on paper remains essential and kim stanley robinson rabbit holes
undersea surgeons repair the backbone of global connectivity
fascinating look at the specialists who fix submarine internet cables
federation vs. protocols: bluesky and mastodon differences
technical analysis of the competing decentralized social media architectures
verizon demonstrates 1.6T optical networking
impressive demonstration of advanced fiber optic technology for AI workloads