Few parts of the Earth remain unconnected. By this, I mean that fewer and fewer corners of the globe exist without some sort of internet or digital connectivity. Quality and consistency obviously vary ...

A high-stakes rivalry is playing out over a vast but vulnerable web of underwater cables that carry nearly all global internet traffic It was a February night off Taiwan’s southwest coast when cargo ...

The threat to the undersea cables carrying internet data is growing more acute. A Russian unit called GUGI is surveilling them, CNN said. Russia is signaling it could take out the undersea cables ...

In the early days of the pandemic, I began pondering the idea of healing. I stumbled upon a story about a cable repair vessel, the Leon Thevenin, which had attended to a cable break off the west coast ...

NATO is using sea drones to help defend subsea cables. European officials have accused Russia of sabotaging the cables. The cables carry power and internet data. NATO is deploying sea drones to help ...

In brief: Undersea cables carry 95% of the world's internet traffic, which makes the recent increase in acts of sabotage against them so worrying. NATO and the EU have been exploring methods to detect ...