White House thinks it's time to fix the insecure glue of the internet: Yup, BGP
Better late than never
Networks03 Sep 2024 | 26
Internet
Big Tech got its 'next billion' – but there's three billion people still offline
The GSMA and its friends are looking for ways to bring those within mobile range onto the 'net
Networks03 Sep 2024 | 8
B2B ISP Fastnet staggers back to feet after VMware incident
Company continues to investigate root cause
VMware Explore19 Aug 2024 | 8
India shuffles away draft law treating influencers like real broadcasters
Online celebs might find that flattering – but not if it means a committee must approve their next livestream
Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 12
Israeli hacktivist group brags it took down Iran's internet
WeRedEvils alleges successful attack on infrastructure, including data theft
Cyber-crime02 Aug 2024 | 8
Malaysia is working on an internet 'kill switch', says minister
Follows requirement for social media and messaging platforms to get a license
Public Sector30 Jul 2024 | 21
BROADER TOPICS
French internet cables cut in act of sabotage that caused outages across country
Axe attack comes just days after arsonists target rail network
Networks29 Jul 2024 | 60
China ponders creating a national 'cyberspace ID'
Because clearly it's better for Beijing to know who you are than for every ISP and social service to keep its own records
Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 18
FTC sticks a probe into 'surveillance pricing' Big Biz uses to gouge us all
Ever had to shop in incognito mode to avoid paying more? This one's for you
Software23 Jul 2024 | 28
Antitrust: GoDaddy under fire for banning DNS automation tool in favor of its own
Updated Domain name giant yanked into court after Entri Connect disconnect
Networks16 Jul 2024 | 9
Internet Archive blames 'environmental factors' for overnight outages
Power failure rather than lawyers to blame for Wayback Machine wandering off
On-Prem08 Jul 2024 | 5
Tech luminaries warn United Nations its Digital Compact risks doing more harm than good
Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf and more from orgs like IETF, W3C, IANA worry if techies are ignored the web could end up centralized
Public Sector03 Jul 2024 | 25
Nokia to sell submarine network business to France in $375M deal
Comms giant to dump undersea internet cable unit by early 2025
Networks27 Jun 2024 | 17
Vietnam's internet again in trouble as three of five submarine cables go down
Outages came a day after nation launched giveaway of .VN domains in pursuit of improved digital sovereignty
Public Sector18 Jun 2024 | 11
Stanford Internet Observatory wilts under legal pressure during election year
Because who needs disinformation research at times like these
Research14 Jun 2024 | 85
Twitter 'supersharers' of fake news tend to be older Republican women
Tiny percentage of users make X miss the spot
Personal Tech01 Jun 2024 | 210
Pew: Quarter of web pages vanished in past decade
Luckily we have the Wayback Machine
Personal Tech20 May 2024 | 27
Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes
I guess the brains down in Africa gonna take some time to do the things they never should have had
Networks03 May 2024 | 36
Lights about to go out on US Affordable Connectivity Program
A partial benefit in May then subsidy gets unplugged once and for all
Networks02 May 2024 | 17
Sacramento airport goes no-fly after AT&T internet cable snipped
Police say this appears to be a 'deliberate act.'
Cyber-crime19 Apr 2024 | 44
404 Day celebrates the internet's most infamous no-show
Nothing is forever, not even a web page
Offbeat05 Apr 2024 | 67
UK minister tells telcos to share telegraph poles if they can't lay cable underground
The NIMBYs are fed up, and it's an election year
Networks15 Mar 2024 | 61
X protests forced suspension of accounts on orders of India's government
Nonprofit SFLC links orders to farming protests
Public Sector23 Feb 2024 | 20
250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them
Comment A new chapter in the long saga of the 240/4 block is being written. If you want more and cheaper IPv4, maybe you should help
Networks09 Feb 2024 | 156
America's broadband bill subsidy runs out of money and halts enrollments
Program that gets the hard-up online needs money by May
Public Sector06 Feb 2024 | 11
Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage
Network rollback fails to resolve issue in Americas as Redmond scrambles to optimize its way out of the problem
SaaS27 Jan 2024 | 35
Musk lashes out at Biden administration over rural broadband
Claims FCC's justification for ditching Starlink 'utterly false'
Networks23 Jan 2024 | 63
David Mills, the internet's Father Time, dies at 85
Obituary Creator of the Network Time Protocol that holds the internet together
Networks23 Jan 2024 | 35
Linus Torvalds postpones Linux 6.8 merge window after being taken offline by storms
Roads are icy and drivers are dangerous. There will be no Starbucks run.
OSes15 Jan 2024 | 17
FCC's Affordable Connectivity Program dangles by a financial thread
On the wrong side of the digital divide in America? The clock is ticking
Public Sector09 Jan 2024 | 8
Open source's new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before
Opinion FOSS's license to exist depends on helping users. It has to learn to think that way
OSes08 Jan 2024 | 61
Cloudflare dishes up the stats on internet traffic in 2023
Web's growing, Google's gloating, and US bots are roaming
Networks13 Dec 2023 | 9
What's the golden age of online services? Well, now doesn't suck
Yearning for the pre-web internet can be misplaced... it certainly wasn't user-friendly
Networks08 Dec 2023 | 86
Openreach hits halfway mark in quest to hook up 25M premises with fiber broadband
12.5 million teased with speedy internet, only 4 million take the bait
Networks08 Dec 2023 | 70
China gamifies censorship and surveillance with national internet law quiz
I'm not a regular government, I'm a cool government
Legal05 Dec 2023 | 9
Amazon hitches a ride with SpaceX for Project Kuiper launches
Working rockets are needed, and only a direct rival can provide for now
Science04 Dec 2023 | 9
No link between internet use and poor mental health, according to Oxford boffins
'We looked very hard for a smoking gun linking technology and well-being and we didn't find it'
Science29 Nov 2023 | 35
India's space gatekeepers pick Eutelsat OneWeb to provide satellite broadband
Bharti Enterprises-backed outfit beats Kuiper and Starlink
Networks24 Nov 2023 | 1
Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist
Tech companies should behave like the aviation industry and detail failures to improve safety for all
Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 28
Net privacy wars will be with us always. Let's set some rules
Opinion Size matters, and what you do with it. But keep it safe
Networks20 Nov 2023 | 29
Amazon's Project Kuiper thrusters deliver Prime orbit adjustments
Custom Hall-effect propulsion system makes sure satellites won't trip over space junk – like Starlink
Networks10 Nov 2023 | 1
Major telco outage leaves millions of Australians disconnected
Communication minister advises businesses to “keep receipts”
Networks08 Nov 2023 | 36
Indonesia grounds second broadband satellite to free up digital inclusion funds
Boeing and SpaceX lose out. Ministry is betting 70 million people without internet access won't
Off-Prem23 Oct 2023 | 2
Net neutrality is back in the Land of the Free – for now
Until the Democrats leave office, that is
Networks20 Oct 2023 | 9
Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites prepare for testing after one late Prime delivery
If all goes well, production to start 'before the end of the year'
Networks17 Oct 2023 | 8
China requires any new domestic Wi-Fi kit to support IPv6 and run it by default
Beijing set big targets for next-gen networks, but adoption stats suggest it's falling short
Networks17 Oct 2023 | 13
Japanese PM says international AI regulations will be here by Christmas
G7 to meet after getting ideas from UN’s Internet Governance Forum
AI + ML10 Oct 2023 | 8
Two Project Kuiper prototype satellites finally reach orbit
Hey – gotta start somewhere
Science09 Oct 2023 | 6
How TCP's congestion control saved the internet
Systems Approach We guess it's OK it did
Networks24 Sep 2023 | 49
Starlink speeds ahead in the satellite race but rivals aren't starstruck just yet
Download rates stabilize after influx of users dragged on service
Networks19 Sep 2023 | 13
Amazon's three rocket makers insist Project Kuiper will launch on schedule
It's not as if space is hard, is it?
Science13 Sep 2023 | 8
When does tackling pandemic misinfo become censorship? US courts argue it out
Analysis On one hand, it's private-public cooperation. On the other, it's heavy-handed state intervention. We take a look at this important unfolding case
Personal Tech12 Sep 2023 | 125
22 million Brits suffer broadband outage blues and are paying a premium for it
Southampton top for connectivity flops, says Uswitch research
Networks08 Sep 2023 | 71
USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix
Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age
Networks30 Aug 2023 | 122
ICANN warns UN may sideline tech community from future internet governance
'We built this thing and now you don't want to hear from us – WTF?' is the gist of it
Networks22 Aug 2023 | 55
So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans
We, for one, welcome our distorted-letter-recognizing overlords
Offbeat15 Aug 2023 | 78
China floats strict screentime limits and content crimps for kids
+Comment Two hours a day maximum and a guarantee of no nasties - parents everywhere might just welcome the Communist approach to this issue
Personal Tech03 Aug 2023 | 33
FCC boss says 25Mbps isn't cutting it, Americans deserve 100Mbps now, gigabit later
First refresh of minimums in eight years for the country that invented the internet
Networks26 Jul 2023 | 54
BT and OneWeb deliver internet to rock in Bristol Channel – population 28
More puffins than people on Lundy, and no one wants to say how much it cost
Networks24 Jul 2023 | 36
Amazon sets up shop at Kennedy Space Center to prep Kuiper broadband satellites
Web super-biz dreams of lobbing 3,000-plus internet-relay birds into orbit
Networks22 Jul 2023 | 25
Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs
Fewer than 2% of workstations will be cut off in 'experiment'
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 69
Beijing wants to make the Great Firewall of China even greater
Also more fiery, with vague but firm orders to create a 'security barrier'
Security17 Jul 2023 | 8
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