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Kamala’s tech ties: what is VP Harris’s relationship with Silicon Valley?

A recent San Francisco fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris (D-CA), which raised more than $12 million, was the latest in the Harris campaign’s outreach to tech Democrats and an extension of a relationship with Silicon Valley elites that goes back more than a decade. Harris has extensive ties to some of the tech industry’s most influential players and prolific donors, in part due to her time as California’s attorney general and later,

What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet

Almost all internet traffic—including Zoom calls, movie streams, emails and social media feeds—reach us via high speed fibre optics laid on the ocean floor.