Voldemort laughing in different languages might be my new favorite video

Today Cisco announced that our Microsoft collaboration — a real-time field trial spanning 6,234 kilometers from Boston, Massachusetts to Bordeaux, France — successfully transmitted 800Gbps on the Amitié transatlantic communications cable. newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/e…

On March 5 at ~15:00 UTC (7AM PST), Meta services, including Facebook, Instagram, experienced a disruption preventing users from accessing those apps. ThousandEyes can confirm that Meta’s web servers remain reachable, with network paths clear and web servers responding to users.

On March 14, large-scale undersea fiber cuts along the African West Coast disrupted connectivity to numerous services, such as Microsoft Outlook and others. ThousandEyes observed connectivity issues, including traffic loss and increased latency.

Learn about Opentelemetry and real time observability at #JOTB24 with Antonio Jiménez, Sr. Software Engineer at ThousandEyes. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project that enables the instrumentation, generation, collection, and exportation of observability data. During his

At ~8:50 UTC, Microsoft Azure customers began reporting issues with Azure services in the U.K. regions. ThousandEyes observed intermittent outage conditions in Microsoft’s U.K. network that resulted in service disruptions for users attempting to reach some Azure services.

Footage shows the first-ever collision of a comet with a planet witnessed by humans. The power of the collision exceeded 750 times all the nuclear weapons accumulated on Earth at the time (July 1994). The impact area was several times greater than the diameter of the Earth.

This was so fascinating. I had a teflon knitting needle on @ISS and charged it by rubbing with my Russian fur boots. Then I directed water droplets from a syringe towards the charged knitting needle and this is the resulting dynamics. The droplets, due to charge forces, go

Amazing progress 🇵🇹 renewable is the future

Lisbon Is Secretly Becoming Europe’s Silicon Valley—And This Is Just the Beginning. I moved here two years ago to launch the Bitcoin Ecosystem Golden Visa Fund. Since then, I’ve seen something wild: Lisbon has MORE BUILDERS per capita than Berlin or London. More energy. More

The most enigmatic structure in cell biology: the Vault. Often missing from science text books due to the mysterious nature of their existence, it has been 40 years since the discovery of these giant, half-empty structures, produced within nearly every cell, of every animals, on

1. Topological quantum computing is here! This thread explains how Microsoft’s Majorana 1 works and what it will mean for a fault tolerant future. I was invited to Azure Quantum Labs and got to hold this amazing new chip!

On March 10, social media platform X experienced a series of five different disruptions of varying duration, rendering the service inaccessible to some users worldwide. The issues were first observed around 9:45 UTC and appeared to be resolved for most users by 18:15 UTC. During

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On July 14, at approximately 21:53 UTC, ThousandEyes detected routing instability affecting Cloudflare’s public DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. The issue occurred when TATA Communications (AS4755) announced the IP address block (1.1.1.0/24) that belongs to Cloudflare, resulting in a hijack

Ongoing global starlink outage

🏁 When every millisecond counts and competitiveness is extreme, you need to watch it all. McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team 🧡 makes it possible thanks to Cisco ThousandEyes. Feel the speed. Watch the full video: cs.co/6019fkbNH

MCP is mostly nonsense, but there are good effects: 1. Tricks management to green-light engineering efforts on APIs and OAuth DCR (Dynamic Client Registration) 2. Tricks LLM clients to integrate with everyone, ie an open-ecosystem, not walled gardens 3. (Just discovered this

Voyager 1 Is About to Reach One Light-day from Earth After nearly 50 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to hit a historic milestone. By November 15, 2026, it will be 16.1 billion miles (25.9 billion km) away, meaning a radio signal will take a full 24 hours, a full

Generative coding progression is impressive: 2022: Generating next few tokens, completing lines. 2023: Generating next few sections. 2024: Generating and editing across few files, building single file apps. 2025: Building and refactoring whole repos.