.de domains were 'down' for 2 hours

https://status.denic.de/pages/incident/592577eab611ce1e0d00046f/69fa60ef9d12f5057a974f38

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Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours

https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/116384935123261912

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Russians use walkie-talkies and paper maps after Putin turns off internet

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/03/14/russians-use-walkie-talkies-paper-maps-putin-turns-off-internet-27425146/

Barely a week goes by without a major digital pillar, from Claude to government portals, vanishing from the grid. While it feels like the technology's getting worse, the reality is our infrastructure's become dangerously consolidated. We've moved from a "shop on every corner" model of distributed servers to a massive, centralized cloud. Today, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are essentially the power, water, and roads of the internet.

This centralization means a single configuration typo can now ground airlines or paralyze hospitals. Beyond human error, we're seeing a shift in global conflict. Cyberattacks are increasingly used in the "gray zone," a state of tension where adversaries cripple economic wealth by targeting our digital infrastructure. You should reconsider your team’s reliance on single-provider stacks, because in a world of cloud monocultures, being "online" is a privilege that can be revoked by a single bad update.

🧠 The shift to cloud computing has replaced distributed hardware with a few massive vulnerabilities.
⚡ Ransomware groups are moving away from tech giants toward softer targets like local infrastructure.
🎓 State-sponsored hackers are targeting specific data rather than broad disruption to avoid all-out war.
🔍 The 2024 CrowdStrike incident remains the gold standard for how one file can freeze the global economy.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2507517-claude-ai-why-are-there-so-many-internet-outages/
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