What’s one piece of infrastructure that — more than anything else — forms the backbone of the modern world? It’s not roads, bridges or even 5G towers — it’s the internet cables that sit on the sea ...

A Chinese government research vessel has successfully tested a deep-sea cutting device at roughly 11,400 feet below the ocean surface, demonstrating a capability that could, in theory, sever the ...

State-owned Chinese telecom firms are reportedly working on the development of a $500 million subsea cable network project to rival a similar US-backed system. According to Reuters, the project would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laying an undersea fiber-optic cable at Arrietara beach near the Spanish village of Sopelana. Ander Gillenea/AFP via Getty Images ...

A Chinese research vessel successfully tested a deep-sea cable cutter. The technology could also be used for sabotage.

Chinese-flagged cargo ships have even damaged undersea data cables and gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea at least twice in October 2023 and November 2024, affecting European countries such as Germany, ...

Attacks on underwater cables running through strategically significant bodies of water in both the Baltic Sea and the South China Sea by Russia and China, respectively, in recent months has top ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a move that could disrupt crucial undersea communication networks and energy infrastructure worldwide, a Chinese scientific ...

In 1949, Soviet leader Josef Stalin theorized why Nazi Germany lost World War II. Adolf Hitler’s generals, he felt, had been too enamored with military theorists like Carl von Clausewitz and Helmuth ...

The World Bank's cancellation of submarine cable system bidding reveals deeper US-China diplomatic and security tensions over undersea cables. Both US and China's legal regulations around submarine ...

Trial described as bridging 'last mile' from deep-sea equipment development to engineering application, suggesting deployment is coming next A Chinese deep-sea mission has successfully tested an ...

Chinese researchers have unveiled a new deep-sea tool capable of cutting through the world’s most secure subsea cables − and it has many in the West feeling a little jittery. The development, first ...