NetBlocks, which monitors internet access, said “a series of subsea cable outages in the Red Sea has degraded internet connectivity in multiple countries,” which it said included India and Pakistan. It blamed “failures affecting the SMW4 and IMEWE cable systems near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.”

Could the world’s most vital internet veins be cut in minutes? The events of the Red Sea this week indicate that yes, they might. Several major undersea fiber-optic cables SMW4, the India–Middle East–Western Europe (IMEWE),

The Red Sea outage is a reminder that much of our digital life depends on a few strands of glass running under the ocean.