Given the prolific way and effect, the internet has on our daily lives, it’s easy to forget the technology required to make it actually work. When you connect to a friend who lives abroad, it’s easy ...

Were you under the impression that the Internet only works thanks to satellites? Well, that is not exactly right. A vast undersea cable network also powers the global internet. We are familiar with ...

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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 ...

Recent damage to undersea internet cables in the Red Sea doesn’t appear to have been deliberate, but the incident–and the naval conflict hot zone it occurred in–highlights how easily they could be ...

Bitcoin is resistant to random subsea internet cable failures, but is still vulnerable to targeted attacks, according to a ...