Vietnam celebrates 25 years of internet with advertising blacklist Facebook and YouTube among companies that will have to monitor user content Legal13 Dec 2022 |
Boeing swipes at Starlink as it finishes two internet slinging satellites 5,000 redirectable beams in each bird Software06 Dec 2022 | 29
‘Mother of Internet’ Radia Perlman argues for centralized infrastructure Inventor of the spanning tree protocol gets heretical about blockchain, crypto, and why the broken internet is a blessing in disguise Networks02 Dec 2022 | 40
UK's Online Safety Bill drops rules forcing social media to remove 'legal but harmful' content Governments directly policing online content will put free speech at risk Personal Tech30 Nov 2022 | 89
FCC taps 13 providers to manage 6GHz band access for new Wi-Fi standards Public will be able to test each system as part of development process Networks03 Nov 2022 | 2
Biden wants SpaceX to beam internet to Iran amid uprising Er, did Joe forget who runs Starlink? Networks21 Oct 2022 | 46
Boffins shatter data transmission speed record One laser + one optical chip = more than the traffic of the entire internet Science21 Oct 2022 | 45
Fujitsu and Japanese Uni propose 'endorsement layer' to make the internet trustable Hope to combat misinformation with graph of observations that prove what you’re reading is reliable Software14 Oct 2022 | 18
Intel chips in on optical modem for DARPA's 'internet of satellites' Mmmmm... smells like Space-BACN Networks11 Oct 2022 | 3
Google challenges US ISPs with 100Gbps fiber broadband An internet advertiser as your service provider – what could go wrong? Networks29 Sep 2022 | 18
Consolidation looms for UK broadband providers Too many small fish in the pond mean the bigger ones are about to enjoy a feeding frenzy Networks27 Sep 2022 | 58
Ex-Googler Eric Schmidt's think tank warns China could win global tech race USA told to sort itself out in 5G, AI, and microelectronics by 2025 – or things could get mighty grim AI + ML14 Sep 2022 | 39
India’s Supreme Court demands government detail internet shutdown rules There may not be any, which is the point of the lawsuit Networks13 Sep 2022 | 7
California lawmakers approve online privacy law for kids. Which may turn websites into identity checkpoints Will Newsom sign it? With a possible presidential bid looming, take a guess Personal Tech30 Aug 2022 | 63
The internet's edge routers are all so different. What if we unified them with software? Systems Approach Wouldn't it be nice to have the features you want, rather than accept whatever's bundled by suppliers Networks26 Aug 2022 | 33
FCC decides against giving Starlink $1b in rural broadband subsidies Even those within the agency puzzled by the SpaceX decision when 'we have the technology to improve lives now' Networks11 Aug 2022 | 23
Philippines logs on to Starlink for remote area internet services Comms ministry boss sees space as preferable to messing around with mountaintop builds Networks28 Jul 2022 | 13
FCC chair wishes for 100Mbps down, 20Mbps up broadband minimum in US Quite a leap from national baseline of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up Personal Tech18 Jul 2022 | 22
Tories spar over UK's delayed Online Safety Bill Perfect political pantomime Personal Tech15 Jul 2022 | 141
California's attempt to protect kids online could end adults' internet anonymity Websites may be forced to verify ages of visitors unless changes made Personal Tech28 Jun 2022 | 50
Cable cut blamed for global four-hour internet disruption Google Cloud, OVHcloud say everything's getting back to normal, which is a shame Networks07 Jun 2022 | 14
US Supreme Court puts Texas social media law on hold Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett help halt enforcement of HB 20 Personal Tech31 May 2022 | 37
Telcos fear Big Tech will bleed them until they can’t afford network builds The GSMA would say that, yet Big Tech is making it harder for carriers to turn a quid Off-Prem17 May 2022 | 13
Another ex-eBay exec admits cyberstalking web souk critics David Harville is seventh to cop to harassment campaign Cyber-crime13 May 2022 | 11
Appeals court unleashes Texas's anti-Big-Tech content-no-moderation law That bit in Ghostbusters when they shut off the containment unit? That, but with social networks Personal Tech12 May 2022 | 59
Big Tech shrank the internet while growing its own power Comment Classic internet ideas matter less now that CDNs and private networks dominate traffic Networks11 May 2022 | 8
Cable giants, ISPs, telcos end legal fight against California's net neutrality law If you can't beat the Golden State, try again at the federal level Networks05 May 2022 | 5
60 countries sign declaration to keep future internet open Lofty, non-binding declaration aims for open, free, interoperable internet in the face of authoritarian threats Networks28 Apr 2022 | 34
US, UK, Western Europe fail to hit top 50 cheapest broadband list Syria, Sudan, Belarus, Ukraine came top. Are you starting to see a pattern? Networks05 Apr 2022 | 35
Ukraine invasion: We should consider internet sanctions, says ICANN ex-CEO Keep Russia's citizens online but block its military networks, say Networks10 Mar 2022 | 102
Internet backbone provider Lumen quits Russia Disconnects small group of customers to protect 'integrity of the global internet' Networks09 Mar 2022 | 39
Iran's internet chokepoint caught fire, caused outages Digital karma at its finest Networks07 Mar 2022 | 13
Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity Biz cites 'unwarranted and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine' ... also crippling sanctions Networks04 Mar 2022 | 61
ICANN responds to Ukraine demand to delete all Russian domains Even if we wanted to, which we don't, we can't, so we won't, says boss Networks03 Mar 2022 | 44
ARPANET pioneer Jack Haverty says the internet was never finished When he retired with stuff left on his to-do list, he expected fixes would flow. They haven't Networks01 Mar 2022 | 125
UK internet pioneer Cliff Stanford has died Obituary The entrepreneur who sold dial-up modems when no one else thought folks would care Off-Prem28 Feb 2022 | 81
Construction starts on another Asia-Europe undersea cable Redundancy may not be a bad idea after damage to sister links Networks21 Feb 2022 | 23
Microsoft says the internet is the nicest it's been since 2016. Obviously they didn't look at The Reg comments Women, on the other hand, haven't seen much difference Offbeat08 Feb 2022 | 60
Toaster-friendly alternative web protocol Gemini attracts criticism for becoming exclusive clique While creators were stripping away annoying styling, users started to make Geminispace a bunker, says engineer Networks27 Jan 2022 | 35
APNIC: Big Tech's use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation IPv4 limits apps to simple interactions, and in 2021 IPv6 adoption growth was just three per cent Networks20 Jan 2022 | 223
Tonga takes to radio, satellite, motorboat comms to restore communications after massive volcano blast and tsunami Next steps for island nation Networks18 Jan 2022 | 36
Indian government tells Starlink to refund pre-orders placed before licences approved Elon Musk's satellite internet company 'remains excited to serve' the country Networks05 Jan 2022 | 26
New submarine cable to link Japan, Europe, through famed Northwest Passage Alternative route will skip the Suez Canal and other tricky spots Off-Prem21 Dec 2021 | 58
Big Tech's private networks and protocols threaten the 'net, say internet registries APNIC and LACNIC worry about who will set the rules of future internetworking Off-Prem09 Dec 2021 | 5
He called himself the King of Fraud. Now this bot lord will reign in prison for years Thousands of servers, hundreds of thousands of IP addresses used by scammer to drum up $7m in fake web advert impressions On-Prem13 Nov 2021 | 58
Billion-dollar US broadband bonanza awaits Biden's blessing – what you need to know Infrastructure bill brings $65bn to freshen up American internet Networks10 Nov 2021 | 25
Amazon hasn't launched one internet satellite yet, but it's now planning a fleet of 7,774 Low Earth orbit is going to be chockablock with broadband-beaming birds Networks05 Nov 2021 | 59
Here comes the blob: Asia's top 'net boffin thinks 'shapeless services' could replace the Internet Common network services are less important when we've moved to apps hosted at the edge Networks25 Oct 2021 | 48
Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams 1.6 million people sat teaching eligibility test, chasing 40,000 jobs Legal27 Sep 2021 | 35
Square-shaped hole in workers' wallets after payment system fails at peak tip time Unexplained service issue blamed after customers unable to leave gratuities electronically Personal Tech23 Sep 2021 | 17
Forget that Loon's balloon burst, we just fired 700TB of laser broadband between two cities, says Alphabet Up to 20Gbps link sustained over the Congo in comms experiment Networks17 Sep 2021 | 39
Singapore is the only nation with a dedicated 'net link to China. And they've just agreed to expand its use Now to get the rest of ASEAN bloc interested, says Singapore government exec Networks25 Aug 2021 | 16
Once again, Facebook champions privacy ... of its algorithms: Independent probe into Instagram shut down AlgorithmWatch ends newsfeed study after 'thinly veiled threat' Personal Tech13 Aug 2021 | 16
Never mind the trolls, Discord hosts 'significant volumes of malware' in its CDN Biz insists it's trying as hard as possible to scrub clean its IRC-for-the-2020s Security23 Jul 2021 | 8
BT to phase out 3G in UK by 2023 for EE, Plusnet, BT Mobile subscribers Cos 4G and 5G will be all hunky-dory by then, yeah? Personal Tech15 Jul 2021 | 84
That time a startup tried to hire me just to push clients' products in job interviews Veteran technologist Terence Eden recalls upstart's solicitation for shills Bootnotes10 Jul 2021 | 57
In conversation with Gene Hoffman, co-creator of the web's first ad blocker Interview El Reg revisits those early days of the internet and learns of the NSA tipping off Boeing about French spying Security08 Jul 2021 | 33
You had one job: Akamai's Prolexic Denial-of-Service protection system fingered after users in Australia denied, er, services Updated Major banks, websites, gaming services, and more taken down Off-Prem17 Jun 2021 | 6
Funny how Sir Tim Berners-Lee, famous for hyperlinks, is into NFTs, glorified hyperlinks Updated Source code auction 'similar to selling an autograph copy of a book' Software16 Jun 2021 | 30
Price-capped broadband on hold for New York State after judge rules telcos would 'suffer unrecoverable losses' Injunction halts introduction of $15-a-month fee for low-income households Networks14 Jun 2021 | 14
Global Fastly outage takes down many on the wibbly web – but El Reg remains standing Updated 'Potential impact to performance' drops some of the world's biggest websites offline Off-Prem08 Jun 2021 | 103
After staff revolt, Freenode management takes over hundreds of IRC channels for 'policy violations' Updated Gentoo and Raku call foul Devops26 May 2021 | 63