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China just unveiled a deep-sea tool that can secretly cut the world’s internet cables
To overcome this, Hu’s team crafted a specialized diamond-coated grinding wheel. Spinning at 1,600 revolutions per minute, ...
China develops deep-sea cable-cutting device with global implications
The device integrates seamlessly with China's advanced crewed and uncrewed submersibles, such as the Fendouzhe and Haidou ...
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Meta’s Intercontinental Cable Will Try to Dodge Danger
When Meta announced its plans for a vast new fiber optic network covering 50,000 kilometers and linking five continents last month, the company’s selling point was cutting-edge undersea cable tech.
Western officials say Russia is behind a campaign of sabotage across Europe. This AP map shows it
Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since ...
‘Invasion’ barges and deep-sea cable cutters: why new Chinese maritime tech is spooking defense watchers
From a chain of massive barges stretching from a Chinese beach into the sea, to a powerful new design for cutting undersea ...
As Trump negotiates with Putin, NATO fights Russian sabotage of undersea cables
NBC News joined a NATO flotilla as it sailed the icy sea hunting Russian saboteurs accused of targeting undersea cables.
First earthquakes detected in Pacific Ocean using ultra-stable optical interferometry on undersea cables
NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection ...
What are the threats to the undersea cables keeping our internet going?
A new Chinese tool capable of cutting the most fortified undersea data cable has stoked fears for fibre-optic cables that are the lifeblood of the internet.
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Global demand for submarine cables surges as data needs surge
The number of submarine cables is increasing rapidly as global data demands grow. Cloud service providers (CSPs) are ...
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When cables break under the sea, a wireless world’s vulnerability is exposed
Coiled in its belly were miles of replacement cable and heavy rope. Steel grapnels were fastened to lengths of chain that would be dragged along the sea bottom to snag broken cables and haul them ...