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Japan needs to protect its undersea lifelines

With the launch of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s second reshuffled Cabinet, her administration should make protecting Japan’s undersea…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #AUSTRALIA #china #Cybersecurity #defense #EastChinaSea #japancoastguard #MSDF #NankaiTrough #PacificOcean #Russia #SanaeTakaichi #SDF #taiwan #telecoms #U.S. #UNDERSEACABLES
https://www.europesays.com/japan/101430/

https://www.europesays.com/people/245613/ While Everyone’s Debating Muse, Mark Zuckerberg Is Quietly Building a 4,300-Mile Cable Under the Ocean. Here’s What It’s For. #DataCenter #MarkZuckerberg #MetaPlatforms #MetaStock #UnderseaCables

Iran’s threat to cut undersea cables in Strait of Hormuz poses a serious threat to Gulf states

The conflict between Iran and the US appears to have reached a stalemate. The US navy continues to…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #PersianGulf #CUI #governmentcommunications #GulfStates #Iran #SaudiArabia #StraitofHormuz #underseacables
https://www.europesays.com/iran/293076/

https://www.europesays.com/iran/293076/ Iran’s threat to cut undersea cables in Strait of Hormuz poses a serious threat to Gulf states #CUI #GovernmentCommunications #GulfStates #Iran #PersianGulf #SaudiArabia #StraitOfHormuz #UnderseaCables

British, Norwegian and American maritime forces confronted Russian vessels preparing to undertake an exercise to test a new device for cutting undersea fiber optic cables.

The confrontation happened near Svalbard, (north of Norway/Sweden and east of Greenland) where two fiber-optic cables extend for about 1,400km and are ~2,700 meters underwater.

Those lines support data transfers from SvalSat, a major satellite ground facility that also serves NASA’s Near Space Network in orbit. https://www.techradar.com/pro/nato-prevented-russia-from-cutting-a-critical-undersea-cable-using-a-tool-that-leaves-no-traceable-fingerprints-on-fibre-optic-wires-1-400km-long-lines-are-part-of-nasas-near-space-network #FibreOptics #UnderSeaCables #Russia #NATO #NASA #SatelliteData #SvalSat #Data #Britain #Norway #USA

Russian plot to sabotage undersea cables with ‘secret weapon’ foiled by NATO

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#NATO #OTAN #Europe #Europa #EU #News #NATOallies #Norway #Russia #secretweapon #subseacables #Svalbardarchipelago #underseacables
https://www.europesays.com/nato/13909/

#NATO allies foil #Russia's #underseacables sabotage plot
They belong to #Norway which has two 1,400km cables connecting #Svalbard to the mainland, sitting at a depth of nearly 3km.
The clandestine Russian operation, described to Reuters by two Western officials, was carried out by Moscow's #GUGI undersea warfare directorate, which used deep-sea submersibles to simulate the deployment of the sophisticated and destructive technology.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nato-allies-foil-russian-subsea-cable-sabotage-plot-2026-09-10/

Nato foils Russian plot to sabotage undersea cables

Britain caught Russian submarines testing a secret new weapon designed to disable critical undersea cables, it has emerged.…
#NATO #OTAN #Europe #Europa #EU #News #attacksubmarine #DefenceSecretary #JohnHealey #Moscow #NATOcountries #RoyalNavy #Russia #Russiansubmarines #theKremlin #underseacables #VladimirPutin #Westernintelligenceofficials #Westernofficials
https://www.europesays.com/nato/13789/

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Interception of Russian GUGI submarines in the Arctic
NATO forces intercepted Russian GUGI submarines near Svalbard during rehearsals of a covert weapon designed to sever undersea cables.

#OSINT #NewsGroup #Arctic #GUGI #UnderseaCables

https://www.europesays.com/dk/162396/ Fitburg crew trial begins over Baltic Sea cable damage #BalticSea #CableDamage #Estonia #Finland #Fitburg #GulfOfFinland #helsinki #HelsinkiDistrictCourt #Russia #sabotage #UnderseaCables

Are Putin’s threats to Britain more than hot air?

Share this article Ukraine has recently stepped up its campaign of long-range missile and drone attacks against Russian…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #AlexanderLitvinenko #AndyBurnham #criticalnationalinfrastructure #cybersecurity #Defence #Deterrence #Foreignpolicy #GRU #HybridWarfare #Nationalsecurity #NATO #resilience #Russia #sabotage #Salisburypoisoning #StormShadow #Ukraine #underseacables #VladimirPutin
https://www.europesays.com/britain/111625/

https://www.europesays.com/britain/111625/ Are Putin’s threats to Britain more than hot air? #AlexanderLitvinenko #AndyBurnham #Britain #CriticalNationalInfrastructure #CyberSecurity #Defence #Deterrence #ForeignPolicy #GRU #HybridWarfare #NationalSecurity #NATO #resilience #Russia #sabotage #SalisburyPoisoning #StormShadow #Ukraine #UnderseaCables #VladimirPutin

TechSpot: Google to build three new subsea cables connecting Chile, Panama, and the Caribbean. “Google plans to build three new subsea cable systems in the Americas, creating direct links between Chile, Panama, the Dominican Republic, Bermuda, and Florida. The projects are part of Americas Connect, a broader expansion of Google’s network infrastructure in the region.”

https://www.europesays.com/africa/366676/ Kenya set to boost digital hub status with two new undersea fibre-optic cables #Africa1 #ArtificialIntelligence #Business #CloudComputing #DataCentres #DigitalInfrastructure #FiberOpticCables #Headlines #InternetInfrastructure #Kenya #KenyaSetToBoostDigitalHubStatusWithTwoNewUnderseaFibreOpticCables #Meta #Safaricom #SubmarineCables #Technology #UnderseaCables

https://www.europesays.com/africa/364749/ Kenya to get two new undersea fibre optic cables in AI race #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FibreOpticCables #InternetCables #Kenya #UnderseaCables

Australia Urged to Fuse Threat Data to Counter Cross-Domain Attacks

With 95 percent of international data traffic flowing through undersea cables, it's clear that protecting against cross-domain attacks requires a collaborative effort that goes beyond the realms of navies, border commands, and telecom companies. The recent Digital Defence Symposium in Singapore sounded the alarm:…

https://osintsights.com/australia-urged-to-fuse-threat-data-to-counter-cross-domain-attacks?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#CrossDomainAttacks #UnderseaCables #NationState #EmergingThreats #InformationWarfare

Marine Technology News: New Google Transatlantic Cable Connects Portugal with the US. “Alphabet’s Google has successfully connected a new transatlantic subsea cable to Sines in Portugal, it said on Tuesday, adding another U.S.-Europe data route as demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence services surges.”

https://www.europesays.com/dk/134644/ RETN launches London-Brussels route to boost resilience #Amsterdam #Belgium #Brussels #BusinessContinuity #ChiefExecutiveOfficer(CEO) #Chinese #Cloud #CloudServices #DataCenters(DC) #Europe(European) #EuropeanUnion(EU) #InternetServiceProvider(ISP) #london #ManagedServiceProvider(MSP) #paris #Resilience #RETN #Slough #SoutheastAsia #UnderseaCables #UnitedKingdom(UK)

#US, #UK and #Australia agree pact to protect #underseacables, ‘the arteries of modern civilisation’
The governments plan to develop new unmanned undersea vehicles as part of trilateral #AUKUS pact.
Around 570 cables carry 95%-99% of world’s intercontinental #telecommunications data. Fiber cables can carry terabits per second; satellites handle far less. And "networks of green energy cables carrying #electricity are also starting to sprawl across the world's seabeds."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/31/world/aukus-seabed-cables-defense-intl

Japan lays the groundwork for submarine cable resilience

Beneath the oceans, out of sight and mostly out of mind, lies the infrastructure that keeps messages sending,…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #AI #AUSTRALIA #Brazil #china #Google #India #meta #SouthAfrica #taiwan #Tech #telecoms #UNDERSEACABLES
https://www.europesays.com/japan/46440/

#Finland deploys new system to detect threats to #underseacables — distributed acoustic sensors measure vibrations from the seabed and informs the authorities and operators of suspicious activities
#Elisa a #telecommunications company, has installed detection equipment on its undersea cables to monitor the #criticalinfrastructure. The system has since been successfully tested, and is now being developed to automatically inform the Finnish Border Guard and the Finnish Navy
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/finland-deploys-new-system-to-detect-threats-to-undersea-cables-distributed-acoustic-sensors-measure-vibrations-from-the-seabed-and-informs-the-authorities-and-operators-of-suspicious-activities

Finland wraps probe into cable damage in Estonia’s economic waters | News

Finnish authorities have wrapped up a probe into damage to two undersea telecom cables in the Baltic Sea…
#Estonia #EE #Europe #Europa #EU #cabledamage #Eesti #elisa #estonia #finland #fitburg #underseacables #Uudised
https://www.europesays.com/3044463/

https://www.europesays.com/3044463/ Finland wraps probe into cable damage in Estonia’s economic waters | News #CableDamage #Eesti #elisa #estonia #finland #fitburg #UnderseaCables #Uudised

Finland wraps probe into cable damage in Estonia’s economic waters | News https://www.byteseu.com/2084064/ #CableDamage #elisa #Estonia #Finland #Fitburg #UnderseaCables

SUBSEA RUMBLINGS

Russian submarines seen near UK undersea cables. UK Navy on alert. What this means for internet and safety.

#RussianSubs, #UKNavy, #UnderseaCables, #NationalSecurity, #Geopolitics

https://newsletter.tf/russian-subs-near-uk-undersea-cables-june-2026/

The UK Royal Navy has increased its presence near undersea communication cables following reported Russian submarine activity. This is a step up from usual patrols.

#RussianSubs, #UKNavy, #UnderseaCables, #NationalSecurity, #Geopolitics
https://newsletter.tf/russian-subs-near-uk-undersea-cables-june-2026/

#Drones to protect #underseacables from Russian sabotage touted in new defense pact — #US one of three partners developing tech to protect $1.8T in daily transactions
Undersea cables are new sea lines of communication that navies must protect.
#DARPA has announced call for proposals to build autonomous #underwater drone, while the #US #Navy has signed a deal with an AI firm to develop tech that would allow undersea minesweepers to learn about new and novel threats in days
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones-to-protect-undersea-cables-from-russian-sabotage-touted-in-new-defense-pact-us-one-of-three-partners-developing-new-tech-to-protect-usd1-8-trillion-in-daily-transactions

As Iran war threatens undersea cables in the Strait of Hormuz, is it time to rethink the internet?

When one of the world’s worst ever energy crises began in the Strait of Hormuz in February, few…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #StraitofHormuz #Hormuz #internetaccess #TeleGeography #TonyO’Sullivan #underseacables
https://www.europesays.com/iran/138882/

https://www.europesays.com/iran/138882/ As Iran war threatens undersea cables in the Strait of Hormuz, is it time to rethink the internet? #Hormuz #InternetAccess #StraitOfHormuz #TeleGeography #TonyO’Sullivan #UnderseaCables

https://www.europesays.com/britain/50562/ National Grid announces plan for subsea cable to Germany #interconnector #NationalGrid #OffshoreWind #OffshoreWindDevelopment #TenneT #UnderseaCables #WindFarm

https://www.europesays.com/iran/119083/ Trump Pressures Iran to Disarm, Tehran Threatens Undersea Cables #BrentCrudeOil #DonaldTrump #Iran #IranNuclearProgram #MiddleEastTensions #StraitOfHormuz #Tehran #USBigTech #UAESaudiArabia #UnderseaCables

Iran is threatening undersea cables. The world’s ‘digital chokepoints’ have never been more vulnerable

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://interaksyon.philstar.com/politics-issues/2026/05/18/313573/iran-is-threatening-undersea-cables-the-worlds-digital-chokepoints-have-never-been-more-vulnerable/

Iran is threatening undersea cables. The world’s ‘digital chokepoints’ have never been more vulnerable

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://interaksyon.philstar.com/politics-issues/2026/05/18/313573/iran-is-threatening-undersea-cables-the-worlds-digital-chokepoints-have-never-been-more-vulnerable/

You know how much we love us some undersea cables, and this week, it's cable drama! Did the Taiwanese cable get sliced due to a shifting shipwreck? Or was it something more nefarious? And what are the long-term implications for cable safety? Join the discussion this week on episode 353 #TheCloudPod #Shipwrecks #UnderseaCables

The Philippine Data Communications Grid (Part IV): Undersea Cable Dependency and Landing-Station Risk

By Cliff Potts
CSO and Editor-in-Chief, WPS News
B.S., Telecommunications Management

Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — Tuesday, May 12, 2026 (12:35 p.m. Philippine Time)

Why undersea cables are both strength and liability

For an archipelago, undersea fiber is unavoidable. It is the only way to move large volumes of data between islands and to the global network. At the same time, it introduces some of the highest-impact single points of failure in the entire data communications grid.

Undersea cables are not fragile in the abstract. They are fragile in context—when landing choices, backhaul routing, and restoration assumptions are poorly engineered.

Landing stations are the real choke points

The most critical risk is not the wet cable itself. It is the landing station and its immediate backhaul.

Common failure patterns include:

• multiple international systems landing in the same coastal corridor,
• landing stations clustered near urban infrastructure without geographic separation,
• domestic backhaul converging on a single inland aggregation node,
• and power or flooding risks at coastal sites.

When multiple cables share a landing or exit path, diversity on paper becomes dependency in reality.

Physical threats are predictable

Undersea cable faults are not rare anomalies. They result from:

• anchor drags,
• fishing activity,
• seabed movement,
• storms,
• and earthquakes.

These risks are well understood and largely unavoidable. What is avoidable is allowing one fault to isolate an entire region.

Engineering assumes faults will occur. Design must assume when, not if.

International diversity does not equal domestic resilience

Adding new international cable systems improves capacity and geopolitical diversity. It does not automatically improve national resilience.

If multiple international systems:

• land in the same region,
• feed the same domestic corridors,
• or rely on the same aggregation nodes,

then domestic outages will negate international diversity.

A country can have world-class international connectivity and still experience nationwide outages if domestic integration is weak.

Restoration timelines matter more than headline capacity

Undersea cable repairs are slow by nature. Mobilizing a repair ship can take days. Repairs can take weeks.

This reality makes domestic failover essential. National design must assume:

• prolonged loss of one or more international systems,
• degraded capacity for extended periods,
• and prioritization of critical traffic during repair windows.

If the domestic backbone cannot absorb these conditions, international capacity becomes irrelevant during crises.

Landing diversity must be geographic, not nominal

True landing diversity requires:

• separation across different coastlines,
• distinct seismic and storm exposure profiles,
• independent power and access routes,
• and multiple inland backhaul paths.

Two landing stations ten kilometers apart on the same coast do not constitute diversity. They constitute shared risk.

Backhaul from landing stations is the silent failure domain

Even when landing stations are diverse, their inland connections often are not.

Common weaknesses include:

• single fiber routes inland,
• shared river crossings,
• co-located regeneration huts,
• and dependence on the same regional aggregation facility.

In these cases, the undersea cable survives, but traffic still fails to reach the national backbone.

Over-centralization magnifies cable failures

Highly centralized architectures—where most traffic must pass through a single metro region—turn cable faults into national events.

Resilient design assumes that:

• Manila may be unreachable,
• international traffic may be partially unavailable,
• and regional networks must continue operating locally.

Any architecture that collapses without the capital online is inherently brittle.

What competent undersea integration looks like

A resilient Philippine integration strategy would include:

• multiple, geographically separated landing regions,
• independent domestic backhaul from each landing,
• regional traffic localization to reduce dependency on international paths,
• predefined traffic prioritization during capacity loss,
• and documented failover behavior tested under real conditions.

This is not exotic engineering. It is standard carrier practice applied consistently.

Why landing-station risk persists

Landing-station risk remains high because:

• coastal real estate is cheaper and easier to permit,
• inland routing is expensive and politically complex,
• outages are episodic rather than continuous,
• and accountability for national-scale failure is diffuse.

The incentives favor concentration. Physics punishes it.

What this establishes for the series

This essay establishes another non-negotiable principle:

Undersea cables multiply resilience only when landing and backhaul diversity are enforced.

In the next essay, the focus will move inland—to interconnection, IXPs, and traffic locality, examining how domestic peering decisions determine whether failures remain regional or become national.

https://www.europesays.com/ie/451139/ Undersea cables at risk from cyber attacks as global tensions rise, McEntee warns #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #ForeignAffairsMinister #Headlines #HelenMcEntee #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #NationalSecurity #News #threat #TopStories #TopStories #UnderseaCables #World #WorldNews #WorldNews

Ars Technica: New undersea cable cutter risks Internet’s backbone. “A Chinese ship has tested a new device capable of slicing through submarine data cables thousands of meters beneath the ocean surface. That demonstration may exacerbate security concerns over a spate of suspected sabotage incidents targeting undersea communications and power cables from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean.”

Iran warns that damage to key undersea cables in the Strait of Hormuz could trigger widespread internet outages and impact global digital systems. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/technology/will-your-internet-go-down-iran-warns-of-risk-to-key-undersea-cables-xidw0mzv?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #InternetOutage #UnderseaCables #StraitOfHormuz #TechNews

“Darling, it’s better / down where it’s wetter”*…

From our old friend Neal Agarwal, a long (and illuminating) scroll from the surface to the “bottom” of the ocean (10,924 meters down)…

“The Deep Sea,” from @neal.fun.

* “Sebastian, “Under the Sea,” The Little Mermaid

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As we dive: we might send connected birthday greetings to a man who put the sea floor to use, Clarence Mackay; he was born on this date in 1874. An early telecom entrepreneur, he supervised the completion of the first transpacific cable between the United States and the Far East in 1904. He laid a cable between New York and Cuba in 1907, and later established cable communication with southern Europe via the Azores and with northern Europe via Ireland. And in 1928, he became the first to combine radio, cables, and telegraphs under one management. (He sold his business, Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation, to International Telephone and Telegraph Company [ITT] for an enormous amount of stock… just in time for the stock market crash in 1929, which wiped him out. He survived the Great Depression by selling his art and antiques.)

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Southern Europe is becoming a new hub for the internet.

When you think about the internet, you probably picture wireless connections. In reality, 99% of what we do online travels through cables on the ocean.

The fastest expansion in Europe is happening in southern Europe, through the Adriatic, Aegean, and Black Seas.

Routes in this corridor are projected to grow by around 270% between 2025 and 2027.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260415-southern-europe-is-becoming-a-new-hub-for-the-internet?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#UnderseaCables #Internet #Tech #Europe #Sea

What makes this notable is not merely the submarine tracking itself, but the strategic target set. Undersea cables and pipelines are critical infrastructure, and public acknowledgment of Russian activity near them suggests states increasingly view seabed systems as key pressure points in hybrid conflict.
#UKNavy #Russia #InfrastructureSecurity #UnderseaCables #Geopolitics #NATO #usa #news

Russia Unveils Covert Submarine Operations Near Undersea Cables

Russia has been secretly deploying submarines to shadow undersea cables, the lifelines of global communication, in a move that's raised alarm bells with the UK and its allies. British defense officials claim they tracked every mile of a Russian submarine operation, involving multiple vessels, that posed a risk to these critical…

https://osintsights.com/russia-unveils-covert-submarine-operations-near-undersea-cables?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Russia #UnderseaCables #SubmarineOperations #NationalSecurity #Geopolitics

New Video: BREAKING: UK Royal Navy Foils Russian Undersea Cable Mission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I2G-Fxzmrw #BreakingNews #UkraineWar #RussiaUkraine #NATO #UnderseaCables #Geopolitics

New Video: BREAKING: UK Royal Navy Foils Russian Undersea Cable Mission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I2G-Fxzmrw #BreakingNews #UkraineWar #RussiaUkraine #NATO #UnderseaCables #Geopolitics

Global Undersea Data Arteries Under Scrutiny Amid Sabotage Fears

Governments and tech firms are adding defenses to undersea data cables. This is because of fears that countries might try to damage them, causing internet outages.

#UnderseaCables, #CyberSecurity, #DataProtection, #GlobalTech, #InternetSafety

https://newsletter.tf/undersea-cable-protection-sabotage-fears-global/

More countries are watching undersea cables closely. This is because the risk of sabotage has gone up a lot in the last 18 months.

#UnderseaCables, #CyberSecurity, #DataProtection, #GlobalTech, #InternetSafety
https://newsletter.tf/undersea-cable-protection-sabotage-fears-global/

*The War(s) That the Mainstream Media Ignore(s)* *

(6/n)

... “#Lafayette26” [#NATO training] mission in the #NorthAtlantic [to show #Trump that the #European NATO members *can* project power, too], which will include multinational exercises in the #BalticSea, aimed at deterring [the now quite frequent] threats to #UnderseaCables.” 2b)—In particular, from the unofficial #Russian #Oil #ShadowFleet, but also #Chinese sabotage vessels (e.g. the #YiPeng3-incident in...

UK and Ireland pledge joint exercises to protect cables from Russian spy ships.

The UK and Ireland pledged on Friday to conduct joint exercises to step up protection of vital underwater cable infrastructure as part of a drive to counter intensifying threats from Russian spy ships.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260313-uk-and-ireland-pledge-joint-exercises-to-protect-cables-from-russian-spy-ships?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#UnderseaCables #UK #Ireland #Russia #NATO #Espionage #Defence

Global Effort to Convert Undersea Cables into Disaster Warning Networks

How will undersea internet cables detect tsunamis? Scientists are using 1.5 million km of cables to find earthquakes and save lives in coastal towns.

#tsunamiwarning, #earthquakedetection, #underseacables, #oceanmonitoring, #smartcables

https://newsletter.tf/how-undersea-internet-cables-detect-earthquakes-and-tsunamis/

There are over 1.5 million kilometers of cables already on the ocean floor. Scientists are now turning these internet lines into a giant tool to find earthquakes faster than old sensors.

#tsunamiwarning, #earthquakedetection, #underseacables, #oceanmonitoring, #smartcables

https://newsletter.tf/how-undersea-internet-cables-detect-earthquakes-and-tsunamis/

Undersea cables, a new strategic battleground.

Nearly 1.5 million kilometres of submarine cables criss-cross the globe. The infrastructure is key for both national security and economic stability.

But an uptick in disruptions – notably in the Baltic Sea – has focused attention on the need to safeguard these networks. While many outages appear accidental, some can be attributed to sabotage by state-sponsored actors.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260129-undersea-cables-a-new-strategic-battleground?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#UnderseaCables #HybridWarfare #BalticSea #Tech

Friday, January 2, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/friday-january-2-2026/

#Russia #Ukraine #Cables #Europe #EU #UnderseaCables #War #UkraineWar #NATO #Finland #News #BBC #Finnish #Sabotage #Putin #VladimirPutin #Sea #Ship #Ships #seizure
We all know who’s behind it, and this another reason why the West should always stand up to Russia. Peace is the last thing on Putin’s mind…

Finnish police seize ship suspected of sabotaging undersea cable https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62040np372o

🚫 Oh, the irony! An article promising a deep dive into the history of undersea cables ends up drowning in its own '403 Forbidden' error sea. 🌊 Nginx: the unsung hero of 'information' security, keeping legacy knowledge away from curious eyes. 🤦‍♂️
https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/the-legacy-of-undersea-cables/ #underseaCables #Nginx #403Forbidden #informationSecurity #irony #HackerNews #ngated

The Legacy of Undersea Cables

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/the-legacy-of-undersea-cables/

#HackerNews #UnderseaCables #LegacyTechnology #InternetInfrastructure #Connectivity

Reuters: Google to build subsea cables in Papua New Guinea under Australia defence treaty . “Alphabet’s Google will build three subsea cables in Papua New Guinea, which the largest Pacific Island nation said was funded by Australia under a mutual defence treaty, in a key upgrade to its digital backbone.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/15/reuters-google-to-build-subsea-cables-in-papua-new-guinea-under-australia-defence-treaty/

Does Europe need more nuclear-powered submarines?

A nuclear submarine is a sensitive technology that is currently used by only six countries: France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, China, and India.

A defence expert weighs in on whether Europe needs more nuclear-powered submarines amid growing tensions with Russia.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251209-does-europe-need-more-nuclear-powered-submarines?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Defence #Submarines #Navy #NATO #UnderseaCables #NuclearSubmarines #Europe #France #UK