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Ottawa has a problem that is easy to miss if you only look at maps. Canada is the second-largest country on Earth, it touches two oceans, and almost every bit of its internet traffic to the rest of the world still goes through the United States first. Now a Norwegian infrastructure firm wants to fix that with the most pointed infrastructure proposal of the year: a 2,800-mile cable across the Atlantic that never touches American soil, and a land corridor that buries the whole thing under Canada all the way to Montreal. The catch — and it is a considerable one — is that nobody has paid for any of it. The proposal, reported by Bloomberg on October 19 and picked up overnight by TechRadar and Mezha, comes from Bulk Infrastructure, a Norwegian digital-infrastructure firm. It wants to build Leif Erikson , named for the Norse explorer who reached North America roughly five centuries before Columbus, running about 4,600 kilometres under the North Atlantic from southern Norway to Happy Valley...

TECH SOVEREIGNTY Brussels has a backup plan for the day Microsoft switches off. It is called Element Pro, it runs on the Commission's own servers, and it is supposed to keep the European Union's government functioning if American technology becomes unavailable. There is just one problem: the EU officials who are supposed to use it think it is, in one staffer's immortal phrase, "absolute shit." Published October 3, 2026 · By Daniel Rao Photo: The Berlaymont building in Brussels, seat of the European Commission. Over the summer the Commission rolled out Element Pro as a "sovereign back-up to Teams" — and its own officials are not impressed. Credit: tpholland / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Brussels has a backup plan for the day Microsoft switches off. It is called Element Pro, it runs on the Commission's own servers, and it is supposed to keep the European Union's government functioning if American technology becomes unavailable. There is...