Good morning. Have you heard about the hottest new job in tech? No, not vibe coder or AI whisperer…but good ol’ fashioned cable guy.
Amazon is reportedly planning to lay a new subsea fiber optic cable across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean in a bid to add more capacity and redundancy to its network.
If connectivity becomes an issue, crustaceans won’t be to blame. The cable, dubbed “Fastnet” and connecting Maryland with Ireland, will actually be embedded nearly 5 feet (1.5m) in the ground to prevent tampering. (Besides, I’ve seen what they do to crabs in Maryland.)
Today’s tech news below. —Andrew Nusca
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