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Australia protects a polygon, and the cable's name is decoration
The regulator's own page counts three submarine-cable protection zones in Australian waters and says so in six words: two off Sydney, one off Perth. The statute behind them settles a question most operators never ask aloud — whether a zone protects the cable it was declared for…
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FEMA Has a $2.9 Billion Grant Scorecard. Applicants Still Cannot See Every Rule.
A transit agency can spend weeks building a security proposal around a published score. A port can do the same. The federal referee then has room to use weights and selection factors the applicants were never fully shown. A number on a scorecard is useful only when the rules…
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State Told Congress It Could Bypass the Rules. In 36 of 37 Notices, It Didn't Name the Rule.
A legal exception lets the State Department fund democracy programs where other laws would restrict assistance. Congress receives a notice before the money moves. In a GAO sample, the notices almost always named the exception but almost never identified the legal restriction…
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The Pentagon Owns $31 Billion in F-35 Parts. Its Ledger Cannot Keep Up With the Contractors.
The U.S. government owns an estimated 26 million F-35 parts worth about $31 billion. They sit at more than 700 facilities around the world, many managed by contractors. Yet the program office's official property system cannot receive the contractors' movements in real time, and…
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90 International Commitments Reached Congress Late. State Refused a Zero Check.
The U.S. State Department is the clearinghouse for international commitments made across government. Congress gave it a clock and a list of information to collect. GAO found 90 of 311 reported agreements and qualifying nonbinding instruments reached Congress late at one or both…
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The .su Delegation Has a Manager, a Status Field and No Title Deed
RIPN has run the top-level domain of a country that no longer exists since the 1990s and said in March 2025 that it has no plans to stop. Its own pages cannot agree on when that job began, and the memo that would explain what the job consists of declines to say what a country is.
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Twenty-One Fields, Twenty Values: The CrowdStrike Remedy Is Half Arithmetic, Half Relocation
One unfilled parameter turned a routine content push into a fleet-wide boot failure. The repair that followed closes a testing gap — and quietly moves the duty to test, stage, monitor and recover onto the people who bought the product.
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A Route Is Not a Deed: Nine Months of the Pentagon's Address Space in Someone Else's Name
The routing table said one organisation was carrying the traffic. The registry said a different one held the addresses. Both were right, and the space between them is the story.
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ARIN Publishes Which Registries It Approves. The Finding Shows Up in a Transcript.
ARIN's transfer page states the reciprocal-compatibility condition in a single sentence and publishes the result as a table. The only located public account of an actual compatibility finding arrives in a members-meeting transcript the registry itself describes as…
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RIPE NCC's Routing Recorder Announces Test Routes It Never Promises You Will See
Every routing argument eventually lands on the same question: did that prefix actually reach anyone? The answer usually arrives as a screenshot or a graph, and a good share of those graphs come from a single service that republishes what the internet's routers told it. That…
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The Route Server Promises One Thing Without Qualification and Two Things Politely
AMS-IX's Amsterdam route servers put every entity one BGP session away from every other entity. The specification underneath that session makes exactly one of the promises unconditional, and leaves the rest at the level of good manners.
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The Red Sea's Cables Wait on a Signature, Not a Ship
Two documents describe the same July 2024 work in Yemeni Red Sea waters. The first, a wire report on 18 July, says an E-Marine vessel called Niwa restored AAE-1 and stayed on station for SEACOM and EIG, and it mentions permit difficulties involving Yemen's internationally…
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One /22, Two Origins, Three Records That Don't Match
One /22, Two Origins, Three Records That Don't Match intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The CASE FILE…
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A Cable Plant Became a Minerals Warehouse. The IP Record Never Noticed.
ARIN handle SSS-10 still lists STC Submarine Systems, Inc. at 15540 N. Lombard St. in Portland, Oregon. The Portland cable business was judged no longer viable, the lease was assigned to a minerals distributor in 2006, and a decade after that a federal pilot book still called the…
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More Than 12 Million Customers Went Dark. The Remedy Is a Deadline.
Four years after the July 2022 Rogers outage, the checkable legacy is not an ordered repair of the network but a disclosure regime: a dated demand for a full account, an independent assessment, and sector-wide reporting duties whose permanent version still has no start date.
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Britain Priced Its Emergency Radio Monopoly. The Bill Still Runs to 2029.
The Competition and Markets Authority found that the owner of the network police, fire and ambulance crews actually talk on could charge almost £200 million a year more than a competitive market would bear, because the emergency services had nowhere else to go. Its answer was not…
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DigiCert Gave Itself 24 Hours, Then Granted Itself 120 More
A missing underscore in DigiCert's own domain validation started a revocation clock with a 24-hour fuse. The party under the obligation then recalculated the fuse, granted itself five more days, and published the only timeline anyone has.
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The Breach That Never Entered DoorDash
A phished credential at a messaging vendor, a notice sent to users in November 2022, and one number the public record declines to give
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Canada Answered the Rogers Outage With a Promise. Promises Need Drills.
A maintenance update in Rogers' core network broke the routers carrying the traffic. Ottawa's remedy was not a control inside that network. It was a memorandum in which rival carriers agreed to carry each other's emergency calls — an instrument whose worth now rests entirely on…
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Zayo's IP Addresses Cannot Be Sold Without Zayo
There is a comforting arithmetic in infrastructure finance: count the scarce things, price them against the last trade, add them to the pile. Registered IPv4 looks like it belongs in that pile. It is finite, it is held under a legal name, and the registry that assigns it…
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