Maintenance in progress

chinese military researchers published a warning that cheap autonomous underwater vehicles are now capable of reaching and damaging the seabed fiber cables that carry the overwhelming majority of global internet traffic. in the same cycle new cable capacity was announced or landed in two places — the google and meta echo cable reached singapore, and kenya said it will add two more undersea cables by 2027. the vulnerability paper and the buildout arriving together is the notable pairing, not either alone.

chinese defense journal and regional telecom announcements