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SecureX gon give it to ya: Cisco muscles into the integrated security game
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Firefox, you know you tapped Cloudflare for DNS-over-HTTPS? In January, it briefly knackered two root servers at the heart of the internet
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Would-be .org gobbler Ethos Capital promises to keep prices down in last-ditch effort to keep $1.1bn deal alive
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Afilias vanishes from battle to run Colombia's trendy .co after El Reg probes technical docs, allegations of a stitch-up
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Afrinic's new CEO promises change of culture at org laid low by allegations of corruption and dysfunction
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24 Feb 20:11 | 1
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All your base station are belong to us: Intel joins spec race with new 5G chips
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24 Feb 15:07 | 6
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21 Feb 15:00 | 133
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FCC forced by court to ask the public (again) if they think tearing up net neutrality was a really good idea or not
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21 Feb 03:04 | 35
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No Huawei gear in vital 5G project to bring virtual-reality Robin Hood to Sherwood Forest
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20 Feb 01:33 | 70
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Brit telcos can keep £218m licence fee repayment from Ofcom after penny-pinching regulator loses Court of Appeal case
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19 Feb 17:28 | 14
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Now Internet Society told to halt controversial .org sale… by its own advisory council: 'You misread the community mindset around dot-org'
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Japan would like to offer 5G firms cheap loans – because subsidies are only bad when Huawei gets them
Look over here! Mmmmm, tax breaks
18 Feb 18:30 | 6
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Huawei to the danger zone: Now Uncle Sam slaps it with 16 charges of racketeering, fraud, money laundering, theft of robot arm and source code
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Technologieverzögerung? Uh, Kommunikationsbürokratie?
12 Feb 22:21 | 38
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Uncle Sam: Secretly spying on networks around the world without telling anyone, Huawei? But that's OUR job
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You, FCC, tell us again why cities are only allowed to charge rich telcos $270 to attach 5G tech to utility poles?
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10 Feb 13:47 | 16
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Don't tell us to go Huawei, Chinese ambassadors tell UK and France
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10 Feb 13:21 | 31
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There's got to be Huawei we can defeat Chinese tech giant, thinks US attorney-general. Aha, let's buy stake in Ericsson and Nokia
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07 Feb 14:32 | 66
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Vodafone CEO: We will elbow Chinese firm Huawei from our European core networks
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04 Feb 19:30 | 11
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Orange has an elegant solution to Huawei question in France: We'll stick with Nokia and Ericsson for 5G networks
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ICANN't approve the sale of .org to private equity – because California's Attorney General has... concerns
DNS overseer gets letter demanding documents about controversial registry sale
31 Jan 21:24 | 44
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