Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed
UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware
Networks19 Apr 2024 | 14
Networks
911 goes MIA across multiple US states, cause unclear
Updated Some say various cell services were out, others still say landlines were affected. What just happened?
Networks18 Apr 2024 | 20
Cisco creates architecture to improve security and sell you new switches
Hypershield detects bad behavior and automagically reconfigures networks to snuff out threats
Security18 Apr 2024 | 6
America may end up with paid-for 5G fast lanes under net neutrality anyway
Damn you, network virtualization
Networks17 Apr 2024 | 15
Global IT spending forecast to reach $5.0T this year
Comms services and AI contributing to increase, but vendors are taking 'risks'
Networks17 Apr 2024 | 3
Fire in the Cisco! Networking giant's Duo MFA message logs stolen in phish attack
Also warns of brute force attacks targeting its own VPNs, Check Point, Fortinet, SonicWall and more
Security17 Apr 2024 | 6
Alibaba Cloud reveals network telemetry tool that helped cut number of engineers needed by 86%
Exclusive Zoonet employs 'elegant generalization of ping and traceroute' among other tricks
Off-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 3
China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027
There's no Huawei we saw that coming
Networks13 Apr 2024 | 83
Zero-day exploited right now in Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect gateways
Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes
Cyber-crime12 Apr 2024 | 13
Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says
Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect
Networks12 Apr 2024 | 8
Google plunks down $1 billion for extra Japan-US submarine cable
Adds Hawaii stopover for another planned link
Networks11 Apr 2024 | 7
US broadband internet: Now with mandatory 'nutrition' labels
ISPs are just going to have to swallow it
Personal Tech10 Apr 2024 | 20
Huawei Cloud reveals the dynamic traffic allocation system it uses to cut bandwidth bills
Created during COVID to handle video boom and sliced bandwidth costs by 30 percent
Off-Prem10 Apr 2024 | 3
Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic
Byteflow dropped by around half under some of the path of totality
Networks09 Apr 2024 | 25
Imagination licenses RISC-V CPU cores for smart TVs, IoT, embedded stuff
Chip designer legging it after Arm
Edge + IoT08 Apr 2024 | 14
Tele2 secure collaboration hub for public sector keeps Swedish data in Sweden
Data sovereignty is eftersökt these days
Networks08 Apr 2024 | 2
Huawei's Iran sanctions evasion trial pushed to 2026
Meng Wanzhou is home, but the case is far from over
Networks05 Apr 2024 |
Creating a greener edge
How data collected at the edge can be verified and processed to improve sustainability metrics
Commissioned
Vodafone and Three's UK merger hits regulatory roadblock
Watchdog concerns about price hikes and consolidation remain unresolved
Networks04 Apr 2024 | 11
Ethernet advances will end Nvidia's InfiniBand lead in AI networks
Desire to build brainboxes will also see optical interconnects go mainstream
Networks04 Apr 2024 | 7
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ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders
Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line
NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later
FOSDEM 2024 Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy
Platforms should not confront users with 'binary choice' over personal data use
Crypto conferences liquidated after biblical flooding in Dubai
There's something nice about seeing Web3 fanatics in ankle-deep water
Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app
Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes
OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories
While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck
Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash
Nobody cared enough to check why audits were out of whack
Exploit code for Palo Alto Networks zero-day now public
Race on to patch as researchers warn of mass exploitation of directory traversal bug
US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet has been dogfighting with humans
Video Robo-plane was made to restrain itself so as not to harm pilot or airframe
Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout
Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial'
STORIES
PCIe 7.0 first official draft lands, doubling bandwidth yet again
Analysis The downside? You probably won't see kit to use it until 2027
Systems03 Apr 2024 | 13
FCC to reinstate net neutrality in the US until someone decides to scrap it again
Pendulum returns to the Obama era – don't be surprised if it swings right back
Networks03 Apr 2024 | 19
Feds finally decide to do something about years-old SS7 spy holes in phone networks
And Diameter, too, for good measure
Networks02 Apr 2024 | 22
Starlink clashes with Telecom Italia over frequency data sharing
Refusal to play ball may result in satellite operator moving investment elsewhere
Networks02 Apr 2024 | 14
HPE bakes LLMs into Aruba as AI inches closer to network takeover
+Comment But don't worry, the models are here to help summarize technical docs and answer your questions ... for now
Networks28 Mar 2024 | 3
NASA to shoot rockets at April solar eclipse to see how it messes with the atmosphere
Boffins hope to better understand how phenomena disrupt comms tech in order to prevent future outages
Networks27 Mar 2024 | 2
Sun Microsystems co-founder charged with insider trading
Andreas Bechtolsheim is paying out less than $1M to SEC amid allegations he illegally bought options
Networks26 Mar 2024 | 11
Coherent lights the way to massive AI clusters with optical circuit switches
Could end-to-end lasers keep long training jobs on track?
Networks25 Mar 2024 | 2
Some 300,000 IPs vulnerable to this Loop DoS attack
Easy to exploit, not yet exploited, not widely patched – pick three
Research24 Mar 2024 | 24
Chinese snoops use F5, ConnectWise bugs to sell access into top US, UK networks
Crew may well be working under contract for Beijing
Cyber-crime22 Mar 2024 | 5
Vodafone, Three hustle to tie knot before regulators crash wedding
Price hikes and reduced competition in virtual network space raised as major concerns
Networks22 Mar 2024 | 27
Nominet to restructure, slash jobs after losing 'major deal'
Prices also set to rise after being frozen since 2020
Networks21 Mar 2024 | 37
Brits blissfully unbothered by snail-paced mobile network speeds
Too busy not using X to notice
Networks20 Mar 2024 | 53
Reddit gets a call from Nokia about patent infringement ahead of going public
That's a juicy-looking IPO you've got there. Be a shame if someone took a licensing bite
Networks19 Mar 2024 | 36
Virgin Media sets up 'smart poles' next to cabinets to boost mobile network capacity
Not the best looking street furniture in town
Networks19 Mar 2024 | 121
The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it
Opinion The web doesn’t work ‘cos the vandals used a candle
Networks18 Mar 2024 | 96
FCC ups broadband benchmark speeds, says rural areas still underserved
Previous goals were 25Mbps download and a paltry 3Mbps for upload ... and some places don't even have that
Networks15 Mar 2024 | 50
We talk to W3C board vice-chair Robin Berjon about the InterPlanetary File System
Interview The decentralized web is alive and well despite Web3 financial scheming
Networks15 Mar 2024 | 8
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
Telegram eyes IPO as user numbers close in on 1 billion
Chat app chaps may even turn a profit this year
Networks12 Mar 2024 | 23
Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in
Some simply chop cables in ducts, others pour in petrol and set 'the whole lot alight'
Networks12 Mar 2024 | 160
Cisco is a fashion retailer now, with a spring collection to prove it
Promises quarterly lookbooks of branded tat, powered by branded kit
Offbeat12 Mar 2024 | 19
Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B... and it has yet to turn a profit
Time to start spamming those reposts: Top users are getting early access to 1.76 million shares
Networks11 Mar 2024 | 17
FCC: April is last month for Affordable Connectivity Program payments
US broadband customers prepare for the great disconnection
Networks05 Mar 2024 | 8
World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads
Updated Millions of Meta addicts suddenly cried out in terror and were silenced
Networks05 Mar 2024 | 61
Synopsys unleashes Ethernet on steroids with 1.6T blueprint to turbocharge AI training
Design aims to sate the bandwidth hunger of next-gen networks
Networks04 Mar 2024 |
Health system network turned out to be a house of cards – Cisco cards, that is
who, me? Pride came before a fall for techie who thought he knew it all
Networks04 Mar 2024 | 57
Sandvine put on America's export no-fly list after Egypt used network tech for spying
Canadian network box maker floats in denial
CSO27 Feb 2024 | 11
HPE boss Neri bags 15% pay hike in 2023 as targets ticked
CEO-to-grunt pay ratio now 300:1 as wider workforce gets 4.4% more than year earlier
On-Prem27 Feb 2024 | 3
Underwater cables in Red Sea damaged months after Houthis 'threatened' to do just that
Yemeni rebels thought to lack the ability to damage submarine cables, but here we are
Off-Prem27 Feb 2024 | 100
AT&T's apology for Thursday's outage should stretch to a cup of coffee
Check your service level agreements to make sure you'll at least get a slice of cake when your vendor goes down
Networks26 Feb 2024 | 13
Network APIs provide fast route to 5G application success
How Network as Code could give developers access to intelligent 5G infrastructure and speedier ROI
Sponsored Feature
Security is hard because it has to be right all the time? Yeah, like everything else
Systems Approach It takes only one bottleneck or single point of failure to ruin your week
CSO25 Feb 2024 | 28
Juniper sued over HPE buyout after allegedly ginning up execs' wallets
Material information withheld from shareholders, it's claimed
Networks23 Feb 2024 | 11
Nokia brainwave turns cell towers into cash cows with backup batteries
Lower operator energy costs or sell power back to grid for $$$
Networks22 Feb 2024 | 28
Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages
Final update Telco battles to fix busted connectivity as other carriers feel the effects
Networks22 Feb 2024 | 81
EU wants to make undersea internet cables more resilient
Threat to data means submarine infrastructures should get status of 'highest possible national significance'
Networks22 Feb 2024 | 24
C-suite execs not immune to downsizing drama at Cisco
Maria Martinez, chief operating officer, is out after role was 'eliminated'
Networks21 Feb 2024 | 5
Microsoft retires Azure IoT Central retirement announcement
And fails to clear up end-of-life debacle
Networks21 Feb 2024 | 8
Virgin Media to stand up rival network operator to BT Openreach
NetCo hoping to eat some of the pie by opening network plumbing to ISPs
Networks19 Feb 2024 | 31
Japan's Rakuten plans satellite cell service across its islands from 2026
Launch delays persist, but test space-based voice calls work
Networks16 Feb 2024 | 2
Out with the old, in with the new as 100 Starlink satellites take atmospheric exit
SpaceX doing some spring cleaning to deal with aging models before they fail
Networks15 Feb 2024 | 50
Cisco cuts 5% of workforce amid cautious enterprise spending
$800M charge facing network giant as customers work way through existing inventory
Networks15 Feb 2024 | 2
WTF is 'deployment phasing'? One reason Cisco revenue just went backwards, is what
Splunk deal may close early, but AI is a way off turning into a money fountain. Meanwhile, Cisco waits for you to finish projects
Networks15 Feb 2024 | 6
Just one bad packet can bring down a vulnerable DNS server thanks to DNSSEC
Updated 'You don't have to do more than that to disconnect an entire network' El Reg told as patches emerge
Patches13 Feb 2024 | 15
Biden admin keeps O-RAN dream alive with $42M funding for R&D facility
AT&T, Verizon leading new initiative to finally commercialize OpenRAN technology, sans timeline
Networks13 Feb 2024 | 2
Cloudflare defeats another patent troll with crowd-sourced prior-art army
The bounty payouts may be high, but Project Jengo doesn't miss
Networks12 Feb 2024 | 23
Cisco wields axe again as results season swings around
In an industry addicted to job cuts, 34,000 staff roles vanished in first six weeks of 2024
Networks12 Feb 2024 | 2
Ukraine claims Russian military is using Starlink
Musk: No terminals have been sold to Russia 'to the best of our knowledge'
Networks12 Feb 2024 | 128
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
5G network slicing finally shown to be more than pipe dream
Telcos demonstrate configuration in action at research facility. Now to find customers that want to buy one
Networks08 Feb 2024 | 14
Cisco, Nvidia expand collab to push Ethernet into AI clusters
InfiniBand dominates in GPU-boosted servers while Big E gains steam
Networks08 Feb 2024 |
AMD crams five compute architectures onto a single board
What an Arm-ful of x86, Vega graphics, XDNA AI, and FPGA circuitry
Systems07 Feb 2024 | 6
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
IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS
You were warned
Networks05 Feb 2024 | 84
The retail edge needs resilient IT
Putting compact servers inside stores can help to harness the power of analytcs and AI
Commissioned
Techie climbed a mountain only be told not to touch the kit on top
On Call Twelve very cold hours and many miles after being told to ignore the power button, guess what happened?
Networks02 Feb 2024 | 145
Netgear hauls Huawei to court over Wi-Fi patent spat
Router maker claims Chinese giant refuses to license on reasonable terms
Networks01 Feb 2024 | 16
How not to write about network security – and I'm speaking from experience
Systems Approach At least it's no longer an afterthought
Networks01 Feb 2024 | 20
Zen Internet warns customers of an impending IP address change
Updated As if by magic, multiple IPv4s may be reduced to just one
Networks31 Jan 2024 | 114
GPS interference now a major flight safety concern for airline industry
You're wrong to think that jammin' was a thing of the past
Networks29 Jan 2024 | 72
ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x
The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root – like many already do with a subdomain for an intranet
Networks29 Jan 2024 | 142
UK merger of Vodafone and Three in competition watchdog's crosshairs
Union claims corporate greed behind alliance, firms claim it is about helping customers
Networks26 Jan 2024 | 23
Virgin Media comes top of the flops for customer complaints
Clean sweep across broadband, landline, and pay TV
Networks26 Jan 2024 | 37
Telco giants show it's tough selling 5G kit right now
Ericsson straps in for rough year, while Nokia bets on recovery in second half
Networks25 Jan 2024 | 12
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
BT to spell out contract price hikes in pounds and pence
Updated None of this inflation-linked percentage nonsense, says Ofcom
Networks17 Jan 2024 | 27
John Deere tractors get connectivity boost with Starlink deal
SpaceX gets chance to prove the FCC was wrong for rejecting its $885m rural broadband subsidy bid
Networks16 Jan 2024 | 29
CDW settles in lawsuit with rival reseller over Cisco sales
Updated Meanwhile pending case from Cisco accuses Dexon of selling counterfeit kit
Networks15 Jan 2024 | 1
Google to lay Asia-Pacific to South America undersea cable
Humboldt cable to zoom from Chile to Australia through the South Pacific
Networks12 Jan 2024 | 10
Adios, dead zones: Starlink relays SMS in space for unmodified phones on Earth
Now you'll never have an excuse for missing that weekend work text or call
Networks12 Jan 2024 | 58
Next BT CEO Allison Kirkby takes the wheel from next month
Jansen can let someone else worry about nationwide fiber rollout now
Networks10 Jan 2024 | 3
Official: Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to swallow Juniper Networks in $14B deal
Monopoly watchdogs permitting
Networks10 Jan 2024 | 21
CEO of chat tech plumber Twilio is leaving the building
'Tech visionary and pioneer' replaced by former comms president, as company faces pressure from activist investors
Networks09 Jan 2024 | 3
Wireless priesthood begins blessing Wi-Fi 7 hardware
CES A little more speed and less latency
Networks09 Jan 2024 | 14
Need to plug in an EV? BT Group kicks off cabinet update pilot
Old BT green boxes to be repurposed
Networks08 Jan 2024 | 209
Huawei finally gives up on US schmoozing efforts
So long, and thanks for all the sanctions as PR and government relations teams decamp
Networks05 Jan 2024 | 42
Tech support done bad sure makes it hard to do tech support good
On Call Read the manual, they said. If only they'd said it about the right manual
Networks05 Jan 2024 | 42
SpaceX sends first direct-to-cell Starlinks to orbit
It's like a cell tower... in spaaaaace
Networks03 Jan 2024 | 14
Biting the hand that feeds IT
