This issue has been talked about quite a bit over the past few years and to me it comes down fundamentally to incentives academics have to keep churning papers because that's what they get measured on. Of course the good thing about that is that you can change the incentives, just as how science funding changed significantly post WW2, but I'm afraid just like in many problematic areas of society nowadays there is a large group of people who benefit from this situation and are hence hostile to any sort of change. As such if change does come I think it will have to be top down rather than bottom up.
For an interesting perspective the physicist Murray Gell-Mann spoke on similar issues in a 1997 interview:
Dirac came from a later generation than Einstein. For example during Einstein's annus mirabilis (1905) I doubt very many physicists knew of tensor calculus considering it was only developed a decade beforehand. During that time the mathematics physicists learnt was very much the traditional topics of analysis: series expansions, special functions, integral equations, calculus of variations, quadratic forms and of course partial differential equations. Hilbert himself actually wrote a textbook with Richard Courant covering these topics: Methods of Mathematical Physics. As such I don't really think many physicists of Einstein's generation knew lots of mathematics simply because it wasn't taught at the time. In the decades since physicists gradually has generally become more "mathematised" so to speak. In Dirac's generation tensor calculus and group representation theory became important, than in general abstract algebra and functional analysis, then as differential geometry became more well developed that gets taught and closer to the modern day you can find top theoretical physics students learning all sorts of abstract mathematics like algebraic topology.
This reminds me of how Terence Tao almost failed his orals at Princeton. Turns out even the best in the field need to spend lots of time doing hard work.
Title: Zscaler CEO: ‘Major’ EU Internet Cable Cut Was ‘Act Of Vandalism’
Most incidents of cuts in internet cables usually have benign causes but given recent hostilities it's worth keeping an eye on whether these incidents start becoming far more common than they have been historically.
On another thread that didn't receive the same attention as this one we learn the Twitter has Chinese and Indian government agents amongst their employees.
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