The US Department of Defense said it will terminate a plan to use Oracle Corp. software to manage its civilian workforce as part of the Pentagon’s cost-cutting efforts. “This program was ...

Meanwhile, Chinese researchers from state-affiliated institutions claimed to have developed a powerful deep-sea device: a cable cutter capable of severing heavily fortified communication and power ...

A weekend headline from the South China Morning Post declaring “China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable-cutter that could reset the world order” caught plenty of attention and amplified anxieties ...

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The new deep-sea cable-cutting device can sever lines at depths of up to 4,000 meters and has been designed for China’s advanced crewed and uncrewed submersibles.