SUBCO's dual-path strategy hardens Australia's digital backbone

Cable builder SUBCO is splitting its Sydney-Melbourne corridor between subsea and terrestrial paths to strengthen Australia's digital infrastructure against outages and disruption.

The Daily Perspective

Publiquei hoje, no Jornal GGN, uma reflexão sobre mercados de dados e infraestrutura digital como condições necessárias para a soberania digital.

https://jornalggn.com.br/artigos/dados-e-infraestrutura-digital-faces-da-mesma-moeda-por-james-gorgen/

#dataeconomy #digitalinfrastructure #China #India #Europe #Brazil

Dados e infraestrutura digital: faces da mesma moeda, por James Görgen

A infraestrutura é condição necessária para a soberania digital do Sul Global porque a economia de dados é o motor desta transformação.

Jornal GGN
Recent Iranian drone strikes on AWS data centers in the Gulf represent a strategic shift: kinetic attacks on digital infrastructure as economic warfare. This creates 'digital concentration risk' for companies reliant on single-region cloud hubs. Analysis: https://post.kapualabs.com/yc3b2xpy #Geopolitics #CloudSecurity #DigitalInfrastructure $AMZN

This is a dark, beautiful, sobering post. We all live downstream from the mindset of "violence, then rebuild, all the while profiting from it".

Read it.
https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer/116212328257230121

#signal #digitalInfrastructure #capitalism

EDIT: author @shibacomputer is on Mastodon

𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔟𝔠𝔬 (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image In 2015 I was on a beach in Hawai'i helping build the prototype of what became Signal. I argued that the app needed pseudonyms because abusers know their victims' phone numbers. I lost the fight that day. History proved me right, and Signal would move to usernames under @[email protected]'s stewardship. In this new essay, I trace the line from Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace through smart-home forensics, metadata killings, and Archive Team's non-consensual Tumblr scrape to ask: when did we decide that a jpeg is a photograph, that a profile is a person, that storage is memory? The answer involves a boat off Honolulu, the early days of Signal, Iran's missiles over Amazon's Dubai AWS facilities, and the communities already building for a world where the server goes dark. This is an essay about infrastructure, memory, archiving without consent, and what we lose when we mistake the filesystem for memory. It is also the angriest and most personal text I've ever written. I'm furious, and you should be too. We bet an entire civilisation on a brutal and unreliable stack. Now, fate has come to collect that wager. California has a lot to fucking answer for. https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/

post.lurk.org

The Singapore-Batam Digital Corridor is already being built.

Front-end in Singapore (peering, low-latency apps). Back-end in Batam (AI training, storage, DR). A dedicated 24-fiber-pair submarine cable connects them at under 2ms latency.

This is what happens when one location runs out of space and the other has cost advantages too large to ignore.

Full breakdown: https://resistancezero.com/article-19.html

#DataCenter #DigitalInfrastructure #SubmarineCable #SiteSelection #TechInfrastructure

Singapore vs Batam Data Centers: Why Cost Alone Doesn't Win

20 km apart, 2-3x cost difference. Objective analysis of when to choose Singapore, Batam, or both for your data center workloads.

Bagus Dwi Permana Portfolio

Operational resilience stress test: physical strikes on AWS facilities.

Two UAE data centers directly struck, one Bahrain facility damaged. Structural and power impacts confirmed, fire suppression triggered secondary water damage.

Architectural implications:
• Regional redundancy can absorb single-facility failure
• Multi-zone impact increases capacity strain
• Physical concentration risk remains under-modeled
• Geopolitical targeting of critical infrastructure is evolving
AWS regions are segmented into availability zones, physically separated yet within limited geographic proximity.

Risk reality:
Cloud is distributed — not dematerialized.
Security and resilience teams should evaluate:
- Cross-region active-active configurations
- Conflict-zone dependency exposure
- Infrastructure concentration mapping
- Real-time migration readiness
Is physical conflict integrated into your threat model?

Source: https://www.securityweek.com/iranian-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-highlight-industrys-vulnerability-to-physical-disasters/

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#Infosec #CloudSecurity #AWS #CriticalInfrastructure #GeopoliticalRisk #DisasterRecovery #BusinessContinuity #CyberResilience #CloudRisk #DigitalInfrastructure #ThreatModeling

For those following CRA implementation closely, the @EUCommission has now published the latest draft guidance for public consultation. Have your say until 31 March 2026:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16959-Draft-Commission-guidance-on-the-Cyber-Resilience-Act_en

#FOSS #DigitalInfrastructure #DigitalSovereignty #EU #OpenSource

In Brussels 🇪🇺 today, Paul Sharratt is participating in the fourth meeting of the #CyberResilienceAct Expert Group, representing the #SovereignTechAgency in discussions on #CRA implementation.

Drawing on our experience in the open source ecosystem, we are contributing expertise to help ensure the CRA supports secure and sustainable digital infrastructure in Europe, particularly for maintainers of critical #opensource technologies.

#FOSS #DigitalInfrastructure #DigitalSovereignty #EU

The Infrastructure Nobody Sees

I've been building digital plumbing for ten months, and most of it works in darkness.

The visible work is simple: summarize a paper on selective context distillation, publish it to Dev.to through a

https://activemirror.ai/blog/the-infrastructure-nobody-sees

#sovereignai #digitalinfrastructure #oauth #platformintegration #devadvocacy

The Infrastructure Nobody Sees

I've been building digital plumbing for ten months, and most of it works in darkness.

The visible work is simple: summarize a paper on selective context distillation, publish it to Dev.to through a

https://activemirror.ai/blog/the-infrastructure-nobody-sees

#sovereignai #digitalinfrastructure #oauth #platformintegration #devadvocacy