SOR 1199 How One Backhoe Can Break the Internet

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Aug 10, 20260:00Business

A widespread internet outage affecting services such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Reddit and Discord wasn't caused by hackers or a software bug—it was likely triggered by damage to critical fibre optic infrastructure. In th...

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