‘Shadow fleets’ and subaquatic sabotage: are Europe’s undersea internet cables under attack?

Europe is on high alert after a series of outages to cables and pipelines. This visual guide explains what happened and what’s being done

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Sweden investigates suspected sabotage of undersea telecoms cable

A Baltic Sea cable has been damaged for the third time in recent months, Finnish telecom operators say.
BBC News - Feb. 21
Tracking Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’

The existence of the shadow fleet is worth billions of dollars a year to the Kremlin. But who owns these ships? The FT investigates.
Financial Times - 22h
Meta Will Build the World’s Longest Undersea Cable

Meta’s Waterworth Project will provide internet connectivity on five continents, with landing points in India, the United States, Brazil, and South Africa.
Wired - Feb. 19
Taiwan detains Chinese-crewed cargo ship after undersea cable damaged

Taiwan’s coastguard says it ‘cannot be ruled out that it was a grey-zone intrusion by China’. Taiwan’s coastguard has detained a cargo ship and its Chinese crew after an undersea cable in the ...
The Guardian - Feb. 25
Taiwan investigating a Chinese-crewed ship believed to have severed an undersea cable

Taiwanese authorities are investigating a Chinese-crewed ship suspected of severing an undersea communications cable in the latest such incident adding to tensions between Taipei and Beijing
ABC News - Feb. 25
Taiwan Detains a Chinese-Crewed Ship After Undersea Cable Severed

The Coast Guard said it was investigating how the cable was severed and said it could not rule out the possibility of sabotage.
The New York Times - Feb. 25
Assassin's Creed Shadows Is Bringing Back The Best Attack In The Franchise

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Europe should be flattered by Maga’s attacks

A central goal of Trump’s henchmen is to defang the EU’s regulatory power for the benefit of American Big Tech
Financial Times - Feb. 23
In the US, DEI is under attack. But under a different name, it might live on

Donald Trump has promised to "terminate" diversity programmes. But a rebrand might yet save them.
BBC News - 4d

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