Sweden seeks clarity from China about suspected sabotage of undersea cables (3 points, 55 minutes ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268586
E.U. Vessels Surround Anchored Chinese Ship After Baltic Sea Cables Are Severed (5 points, 16 hours ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262913
This story previously with limited discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42263100
The bottom line is that the alleged incident occurred in deep water, making an accidental, unnoticed anchor runnout *very* unlikely. He describes it as "A coincidence, and a very strange one," that this one vessel was seemingly over both cables just at the time they were severed, and gives a visual of maritime tracking to illustrate this.
For the record, I had that commercial on tap because I ran into someone who thought that the origin of the "Wasssup" meme was from Scary Movie.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42191394 ("Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke (bsky.app)", 756 comments)