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Meta’s planned subsea cable will exceed circumference of Earth and support AI innovation

Meta has announced its plan for a subsea cable that will span the globe, connecting emerging economies such as India, South Africa and Brazil to the US. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp’s parent company announced what is known as Project Waterworth in a blog post. The social media giant’s vice-president of network engineering, Gaya Nagarajan, and…

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ARM and Meta: Plotting a path to dilute GPU capacity

News that ARM is embarking on developing its own datacentre processors for Meta, as reported in the Financial Times, is indicative of the chip designer’s move to capitalise on the tech industry’s appetite for affordable, energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI). Hyperscalers and social media giants such as Meta use vast arrays of expensive graphics processing units…

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Meta is about to ruin WhatsApp with AI bots no one wants

Of all the generative AI assistants out there, Meta AI must be the most annoying for the simple fact that Meta is shoving it down our throats. No app is safe, from Facebook to Messenger to WhatsApp to Instagram. Meta AI is there whether you want it or not, and there’s no way to deactivate…

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These were 10 the biggest internet outages of 2024

There are few disasters as unifying as an internet outage. Whether it’s a popular website, social network, or online service, everyone collectively freaks out when it goes offline, as was the case when all three major US cell carriers suffered outages on the same day earlier this year.With that in mind, the network intelligence firm…

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