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infrastructure

[in-fruh-struhk-cher] / ˈɪn frəˌstrʌk tʃər /


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Earlier in the year, former Google software engineer Linwei Ding was convicted in San Francisco after stealing 2,000 pages of confidential documents detailing Google’s AI and supercomputing infrastructure and uploading it to a cloud account.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

Tall waves pummeled the California coast on Saturday, causing beach and pier closures and endangering coastal homes and infrastructure from San Diego to Malibu and beyond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

Duffy warned that a similar issue could arise again unless the US Congress approved upgrades to air traffic control infrastructure.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

Most notably, the so-called "sewer socialists" ran Milwaukee for more than half a century through 1960, dramatically scaling up public works projects including a modern sewer system, public housing and social infrastructure.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

In his systematic fashion he continued to refine the company’s infrastructure and services—and continued to be extraordinarily successful at escorting amateur climbers to the summits of big, remote mountains.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

But while their styles might appear retro, their infrastructures are cutting edge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Established in 2010, the InterTAK Registry is one of the world's largest international research infrastructures focused on Takotsubo syndrome.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

National infrastructures in many cases are not able to sustain mass-market electrification.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

Even if these infrastructures are not directly hit—Tehran is a city of 14 million people in a densely populated urban environment.

From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2026

Some information technology experts warned that computers would not be able to distinguish the correct meaning of 00, resulting in widespread failure of vital infrastructures.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly


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