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 | 51
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 | 69
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 | 48
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 | 79
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
Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain Ofcom launches investigation into whether telco is making it difficult for people to cancel services Networks13 Jul 2023 | 78
Internet registry APNIC announces governance and election reforms Addresses criticisms raised by sections of the community and recent controversies Networks12 Jul 2023 | 1
You're too dumb to use click-to-cancel, Big Biz says with straight face Making it easy to exit subscriptions will just baffle everyone, FTC told Personal Tech12 Jul 2023 | 93
Brit broadband subscribers caught between crappy connections and price hikes Survey suggests 'mediocre services' now cost 14% more Networks05 Jul 2023 | 99
It's time to mark six decades of computer networking Systems Approach As we yearn for a return to a truly decentralized internet Networks28 Jun 2023 | 91
Singapore to double its submarine cable landing sites by 2033 Anywhere China's navy struggles to reach seems like a nice place for a global internet connectivity hub Networks07 Jun 2023 | 3
AFRINIC warns members of fake news campaign, voting rights grab Mysterious society fingered as source Networks16 May 2023 | 2
Hey Apple, what good is a status page if you only update it after the outage? It's not just Cupertino, most status pages aren't what they claim to be Off-Prem15 May 2023 | 21
Cloudflare opposes Europe's plan to make Big Tech help pay for networks Prefers open peering – from which it profits Networks09 May 2023 | 14
Amazon: Behold our antennas, which you cannot use just yet Project Kuiper satellite broadband coming next year, maybe Networks15 Mar 2023 | 15
Requiem for Google Reader, dead for a decade but not forgotten Special report RSS pioneer Dave Winer sees Mastodon as a positive sign Networks14 Mar 2023 | 50
Rebel without a clause: ISP promises broadband with no contract We don't need to trap customers to force loyalty, says boss Networks13 Mar 2023 | 45
APNIC elections: Reform activists rejected, org welcomes stronger election protections Candidates supported by Morocco-backed group fail to win a single seat on Executive Council Networks02 Mar 2023 | 3
Starlink performance sees a bump, and so do prices Still not quite as fast as it was in the halcyon days of 2021 Networks23 Feb 2023 | 12
Phở no! Vietnam's last working submarine cable glitches out Five from five take a dive, but connections are still alive Off-Prem23 Feb 2023 | 14
Cheating carriers could cost web-starved Americans billions in subsidies And the FCC ain't exactly helping, senators say Networks09 Feb 2023 | 20
Cloudflare engineer broke rules – and a customer's website – with traffic throttle Updated Those who think Big Tech has its thumb on the scales are going to love this Off-Prem09 Feb 2023 | 25
If your DNS queries LoOk liKE tHIs, it's not a ransom note, it's a security improvement It’s not Google's plan. There’s no way it’s Google's plan. It was Google's plan Networks19 Jan 2023 | 84
Pakistan’s government to agencies: Dark web is dangerous, please don’t go there Advice follows embarrassing leak of audio from Prime Minister’s office Security10 Jan 2023 | 12
With Mastodon, decentralization strikes back Systems Approach ActivityPub isn't just what we've been doing over the Christmas break Software01 Jan 2023 | 64
Twitter dismantles its Trust and Safety Council moments before meeting Comment Plus: Elon Musk is now a number 2 Personal Tech13 Dec 2022 | 109