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🔊 A 1.4 million-kilometer undersea cable network carries the world's data and is increasingly at the center of geopolitical tensions. On The Big View podcast, author Katja Bego tells Peter Thal Larsen why it is vulnerable and if it can be made less so reut.rs/4hLkn24

reut.rsPODCAST: The fragile undersea cables that connect the worldGlobal data traffic depends on a 1.4 mln-kilometre underwater network that has become a geopolitical battleground. On this episode of The Big View Katja Bego, author of ‘Deep Connections’, tells Peter...

13/10/26, 9:17 am12 reposts16 likes

gerardofsuresnes.bsky.social

@gerardofsuresnes.bsky.social

In your opinion, if a single geek can raise the temperature of supermarket refrigerators to the point of destroying them, could an alliance of super-powerful AIs do the same thing to nuclear power plants?

Rock Mondo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@rockmondo.bsky.social

New communications tech triggers conflict. When they laid the first transatlantic cable, WWI was almost inevitable. Ironic that 100 years later that's the tech they are exploiting weaknesses of.