Hacker News with Generative AI: Undersea Cables

Chinese university applies for undersea cable cutter patent (tomshardware.com)
Exclusive–Chinese Patents Reveal Aim to Cut Undersea Cables (newsweek.com)
With Chinese ships suspected to have cut key undersea communications cables around the world, a Newsweek review of Chinese-language patent applications shows that engineers in China invented devices to sever such cables quickly and cheaply.
Undersea cable between Germany and Finland severed (bbc.co.uk)
Germany and Finland say they are "deeply concerned" after an undersea cable linking the countries was severed.
Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted (cnn.com)
Russia's top-secret military unit reportedly plots undersea cable 'sabotage' (theregister.com)
Russia's naval activity near undersea cables is reportedly drawing the scrutiny of US officials, further sparking concerns that the Kremlin may be plotting to "sabotage" underwater infrastructure via a secretive, dedicated military unit called the General Staff Main Directorate for Deep Sea Research (GUGI).