UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up Atlantic Bastion combines AI systems with warships to counter increased surveillance Networks08 Dec 2025 | 22
Russian spy ship theories sink after Orkney blackout traced to wind farm fault Timing of Yantar's visit sparked gossip, but engineers point to a misbehaving protection system Offbeat25 Nov 2025 | 20
Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land It’s less bonkers than it sounds given the challenges of wiring Africa Networks03 Nov 2025 | 50
Submarine cable security is all at sea, and UK govt 'too timid' to act, says report Feature Guess how much of our direct transatlantic data capacity runs through two cables in Bude? Networks29 Sep 2025 | 44
Microsoft, Linode, warn of cloud latency spikes due to Middle East submarine cable problems Asia In Brief PLUS: Lenovo to sell bonkers clip-on-screen; AWS NZ rumblings; Google helps catch South Korean phish Off-Prem07 Sep 2025 | 2
Clouds and submarine cables report no impact from sixth-largest earthquake in recorded history, subsequent tsunami Russian rumbler has authorities across the Pacific warning of possible problems Science30 Jul 2025 | 5
FCC dives in to sink Chinese grip on undersea internet cables Maybe finish ripping and replacing your telco networks first? Networks17 Jul 2025 | 25
UK eyes new laws as cable sabotage blurs line between war and peace It might be time to update the Submarine Telegraph Act of 1885 Networks02 Jul 2025 | 83
Sweden seizes cargo ship after another undersea cable hit in suspected sabotage NATO increasing patrols in the Baltic as region awaits navy drones Networks27 Jan 2025 | 64
How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish Opinion Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian Networks20 Jan 2025 | 110
NATO's newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack 'Sweden has changed,' PM warns as trio of warships join defense efforts Networks13 Jan 2025 | 52
Taiwan reportedly claims China-linked ship damaged one of its submarine cables More evidence of Beijing’s liking for gray zone warfare, or a murky claim with odd African entanglements? Security06 Jan 2025 | 13
Submarine cable resilience board announced on same day maybe-cut-by-China Baltic cable repaired ITU thinks time is now for more talk about how to keep data moving beneath the waves Networks02 Dec 2024 | 26
Google to wrap up Christmas Island with new subsea cable Connection will tie remote territory to Darwin in North Australia Networks27 Nov 2024 | 11
Chinese ship casts shadow over Baltic subsea cable snipfest Danish military confirms it is monitoring as Swedish police investigate. Cloudflare says impact was 'minimal' Networks21 Nov 2024 | 47
Hyperscalers are carving up the ocean floor into private internet highways Think tank warns of sovereignty risks from subsea cable consolidation Networks25 Sep 2024 | 6
Nokia to sell submarine network business to France in $375M deal Comms giant to dump undersea internet cable unit by early 2025 Networks27 Jun 2024 | 17
Vietnam's internet again in trouble as three of five submarine cables go down Outages came a day after nation launched giveaway of .VN domains in pursuit of improved digital sovereignty Public Sector18 Jun 2024 | 11
Preventing another chip shortage on G7 summit agenda Group will also look into protecting subsea communications infrastructure Public Sector13 Jun 2024 | 1
Google plunks down $1 billion for extra Japan-US submarine cable Adds Hawaii stopover for another planned link Networks11 Apr 2024 | 7
Japan's NTT and NEC reckon they can boost optical network capacities 12x First tests of manycore fibres hailed as success over oceanic distances Off-Prem22 Mar 2024 | 4
Underwater cables in Red Sea damaged months after Houthis 'threatened' to do just that Yemeni rebels thought to lack the ability to damage submarine cables, but here we are Off-Prem27 Feb 2024 | 100
ASEAN bloc to build submarine cable network, link government apps APAC in Brief PLUS: TikTok returns to Indonesian e-commerce; Chinese giants' EV battery swap scheme; India drops mobile tariffs Off-Prem04 Feb 2024 | 1
Google to lay Asia-Pacific to South America undersea cable Humboldt cable to zoom from Chile to Australia through the South Pacific Networks12 Jan 2024 | 10
Bermuda, your data, Google's gonna take your US data Updated Search giant's latest subsea cable will feed your YouTube addiction Off-Prem26 Sep 2023 | 14
Singapore to double its submarine cable landing sites by 2033 Anywhere China's navy struggles to reach seems like a nice place for a global internet connectivity hub Networks07 Jun 2023 | 3
G7 nations admit they're nowhere on AI regulation Now they want to catch up, prevent crooks, protect IP ... real soon now … after more talking AI + ML22 May 2023 | 8
What's really up with data disconnects in the deep blue sea? Opinion There's always a catch if you blame it on trawlers Networks27 Feb 2023 | 39
Phở no! Vietnam's last working submarine cable glitches out Five from five take a dive, but connections are still alive Off-Prem23 Feb 2023 | 13
Clumsy ships, one Chinese, sever submarine cables that connect Taiwanese islands Vietnam has also struggled with four out of five cables in strife Networks21 Feb 2023 | 32
Atlassian CEO's bonkers scheme to pipe electricity from Australia to Singapore collapses Analysis 4,000km extension cords are hard to build On-Prem22 Jan 2023 | 64
Submarine cable damage brings internet pain to Asia, Africa SEA-ME-WE-5 severed on land in Egypt Networks30 Nov 2022 | 6
Funds sought for first submarine cable to Antarctica Will also be first cable to go from South America to Australia Off-Prem01 Aug 2022 | 17
Google funds first sub cable to cross Pacific from Japan to Canada Google says Topaz will lower latency, even though both nations already have shorter routes to bit barns Off-Prem08 Apr 2022 | 4
Volcano 'shredded' submarine cable, vastly complicating repair job Underwater sediment surges sliced several segments, required extreme splicing to fix Networks02 Mar 2022 | 37
Tonga's submarine cable reconnects to the world But local services remain spotty after volcanic eruption Networks22 Feb 2022 | 7
Indonesia's new mega-telco to build 18,000km submarine cable to the US Coming out party for Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Networks11 Feb 2022 | 6