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Finland detains ship after subsea cable damage, underscoring fragility of critical links

Finnish authorities have detained a vessel and its crew following damage to a critical undersea cable-an uncommon enforcement step that puts a spotlight on the physical risks underpinning global connectivity. Under the hood, operators detected the fault the standard way: sharp optical power loss and reflectometry pinpointing a break location,

The Python “numbers” that actually move the needle

For Python performance, a few implementation constants matter more than micro-bench hot takes. Under the hood, CPython’s Global Interpreter Lock switches threads roughly every 5 ms (sys.getswitchinterval), so thread-based concurrency is bounded by that cadence unless C extensions release the GIL. Lists grow by about 12.5% when

Linux on the desktop is finally boring - and that’s a compliment

“Linux is good now” isn’t a meme so much as a convergence report. What’s notable here is the stack has quietly matured end-to-end: Wayland is the default in GNOME and KDE, PipeWire unifies pro audio and video routing, and driver support (including NVIDIA’s improved Wayland/GBM path