The Telstra outage of July 8, 2026 started with a routine repair. At 02:50 an engineer in Melbourne powered a timing chassis back on, and by breakfast Australia's biggest mobile network agreed it was November 2006. Nearly nine million customers lost calls, texts or data. The external investigation Telstra published on September 2 traces it to one GPS card and an NTP server design that let every other clock agree with it. If you run anything that trusts a clock, which is everything, this is the...