Maintenance in progress

chinese researchers published a warning that cheap uncrewed underwater vehicles now put submarine cable systems — carrying over 99% of intercontinental data and more than $10tn in daily cross-border transactions — within reach of actors who previously needed crewed submarines. in the same days a houthi strike on the cargo ship tihamah in the bab el-mandeb killed four crew, suez canal transits fell 22%, and kamchatka announced subsea cable repair operations. the cost of touching the world's physical data and trade layer is being described as falling.

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