Over the weekend, crucial undersea cables providing internet access to parts of Asia were mysteriously cut, leading to internet outages in certain parts of the Middle East and Asia.

The initial news seems to have originated from a Microsoft announcement published on Sunday. The announcement reads, in part: “Starting at 05:45 UTC on 06 September 2025, network traffic traversing through the Middle East may experience increased latency due to undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea.” Gizmodo reached out to the company for more information.

From the available reporting, much of which comes from the Associated Press , it’s still unclear who has actually been impacted. Netblocks, the internet monitoring service, claims that the cable cuts led to “degraded internet connectivity in multiple co

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