Why an "Internet apocalypse" could be looming on the horizon

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A If for any reason you believe you received this email in error or if you no longer wish to receive these emails, click here to unsubscribe. Well, Good Morning!   Let's take a look at what the day has in store for us.   So, let's dig in, shall we? Here's What You Need To Know... Why is this Big Tech CEO getting involved in international politics? As the world grapples with an ongoing chip shortage, a quiet giant among chipmakers has committed to investing $100 billion over three years to ramp up production. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company may not be a household name, but with a market value of over $550 billion, it's one of the world's 10 most valuable companies. Now, it's leveraging its considerable resources to bring the world's most advanced chip manufacturing back to U.S. soil.   While many companies design chips in the United States, most companies rely on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. or Korea's Samsung to manufacture their leading-edge chips. Not that many years ago, the U.S. accounted for more than one-third of all semiconductor manufacturing, but only 12% are made here today. Production cost was a big factor in that shift, as other countries in Asia invested to build up their own chip industries.   Now — and even with the investment, which may have even been made in light of his comments — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is putting the pressure on the U.S. government to help subsidize chip manufacturing, insisting the current reliance on plants in Taiwan and Korea as "geopolitically unstable." Gelsinger positioned it as a matter of the U.S. controlling its digital future. "Name anything that's more important than that to our nation." A new interview with Gabby Petito's parents reveal what they really thought about Brian Laundrie In yesterday's episode of Australia's 60 Minutes, the parents of slain blogger Gabby Petito spoke about how they really felt about Brian Laundrie, indicating that the 23-year-old man they'd come to know was "quiet and polite." Not only that, but they trusted their daughter's partner to "take care of her" on a trip that otherwise worried Nichole Schmidt, Gabby's mother.    "He just seemed like a nice guy. I told her to be careful," she said. "Be safe. To be aware of your surroundings. Don't trust anybody. But I felt safe because she was with Brian and I felt like she would be okay."    No one anticipated that the man who read books and drew pictures with their other children would be the sole person of interest in their 22-year-old daughter's death. And as the search for the fugitive continues, many are speculating whether he will be found, with everyone from Dog the Bounty Hunter to actress Kristie Alley weighing in on where he might be. Officials say it could be several months before they complete an in-depth search of the Florida reserve where he was believed to be.  How the next big solar storm could create an "Internet apocalypse" The Internet isn't just in "the Cloud." It's also at the bottom of the ocean, ferried across the world through an intricate network of undersea cables. Some of those cables are over 12,000 miles long, stretching between continents — and in total, there's approximately 1.3 million miles of subsea internet cable lying at the bottom of the ocean. That's enough to go around Earth 52 times.   So what happens if a natural disaster damages some of those cables? Dr. Sangeetha Jyothi, a professor at University of California Irvine, says it succinctly: an "Internet apocalypse." Her research also suggests that this frightening scenario could come to pass sometime in the next two decades.    She argues that an upcoming, rare solar storm would be enough to destroy global Internet infrastructure. Currently, scientists think we may be at the end of Solar Cycle 24, and about to begin Solar Cycle 25. The 25th cycle is the one that will create the solar flares necessary to interfere with Earth's satellite communications, power grids, and — according to Jyothi — even undersea Internet cables.    Although undersea internet cables are immune to electric damage from a solar storm, that doesn't mean that they're indestructible. At the interval of about 30 to 90 miles, each cable has a repeater to amplify signals. And it's those repeaters that are vulnerable to electric disruption. If even one of them malfunctions, it could bring down the entire undersea route. What's our biggest concern if this happens? Get INSTANT Access (Free of Charge!) 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