telecom

Viral late-bubble trend emerges: Pre-IPO OpenAI stock used to buy homes in San Francisco. Jim Chanos compares AI infrastructure boom to 1990s telecom overbuild.

Buying homes with pre-IPO OpenAI stock? New trend going viral in San Francisco The Bay Area’s real estate market is notoriously competitive, and the artificial intelligence boom is taking it to a whole new level. Would-be buyers are getting turned down because others are making offers in AI stock. A text shared on social media …

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China tapped Canada’s telecom backbone. Two years of unfiltered access. Cisco warned them. They ignored it. Beijing didn’t.

The breach wasn’t sudden. It was slow, silent, and entirely preventable. In February 2025, Chinese state-backed hackers gained full access to Canada’s telecommunications infrastructure. Not a single firewall tripped. Not one alert sounded. The door had been left wide open since October 2023. Cisco had flagged the issue early. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20198, carried …

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China did the “worst telecom hack in our nation’s history”, even the US wiretapping program was breached

Chinese hackers have breached dozens of telecommunications companies around the world. The breach, christened Salt Typhoon by Microsoft cybersecurity researchers, has afforded the cybercriminals unprecedented access not only to information on who has been texting or calling whom and when, but also on the contents of some messages, a much higher technical bar to clear …

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Yemen Telecom Fears Houthi Rebels Planning to Sabotage Critical Submarine Cables in Red Sea The warning came after a Houthi-linked Telegram channel published a map of the cables running along the bed of the Red Sea.

UN-recognised government and telecoms firms speak of threat to digital infrastructure, with some cables lying 100m below surface Telecom firms linked to the UN-recognised Yemen government have said they fear Houthi rebels are planning to sabotage a network of submarine cables in the Red Sea critical to the functioning of the western internet and the …

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British Telecom CEO Firing Whites, Hiring Non-Whites to ‘Hit Diversity Targets’ and ‘Pocket £220K Bonus

The CEO of British Telecom giant BT is reportedly firing some 1,100 employees in overwhelmingly white rural East Anglia with the intention of replacing them with non-whites from major cities in order to “boost diversity” and potentially pocket a £220,000 bonus for hitting “diversity targets.” https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63986 https://twitter.com/_/status/1705861726699196658 2005: We need immigrants to do the jobs …

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