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How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network for 37 hours, knackering 911 calls, VoIP, broadband

IBM hears the RISC-V kids partying next door, decides it will make its Power CPU ISA free, too

Latest sneak peek at PowerShell 7 ups the telemetry but... hey... is that an off switch?

Shiny new toys take backseat in Android Studio 3.5 for now as '600 bugs' squished

Microsoft Chrom... Edge hits beta as new browser prepped for biz testing

Microsoft shares twin previews of Windows 10 with Insiders: Toys for some, coal for others

Microsoft: Reckon our code is crap? Prove it and $30k could be yours

Sorry script kiddies, hacktivism isn't cool anymore: No one cares about stuff that's easy-peasy to defend against

Stuff like sophisticated government spyware is scary and all – but don't forget, a single .wmv file can pwn you via VLC

30+ countries, 160,000 emails, $4.2m in cyber-heists… maybe it's time for the Silence hacker crew to change its name

There once was a biz called BitBucket, that told Mercurial to suck it. Now devs are dejected, their code soon ejected

Python the latest language to slither into Microsoft's serverless Azure Functions service

Now CI/CD can get a better piece of the Actions: GitHub expands automation service to build, test, deploy tools

They're climbing through the Windows: CircleCI goes native on Microsoft's OS

Sueball claims Tesla solar panels are so effective, they started fires at Walmart stores

Overseas investors eat the UK tech sector for Brexit: More cash flung about in 7 months than the whole of last year

Don't panic! Don't panic! UK IT job ads plummet as Brexit uncertainty grabs UK tech sector by the short and curlies

Bunch of US states said to be preparing fresh antitrust investigation into Google 'n' pals

A challenger appears: Taiwanese devs' answer to Gemini PDA wraps a Raspberry Pi in a tablet

Brits are sitting on a time bomb of 40m old electronic devices that ought to be recycled

My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)

Lenovo ThinkPad X390: A trusty workhorse that means business but it's not without a few flaws

Geek's Guide

Brit-built trundlebot eyeing up a July 2020 launch as cams fitted to ExoMars mission rover

Clip, clip, hooray: NASA says it will send Clipper probe to Europa, will attempt no landing there

Squabbles over NASA's lunar lander, Astrobotics takes a punt on ULA and India arrives at the Moon

Astroboffins have spied the largest star that has gone supernova and it's breaking all the rules

Moore's Law isn't dead, chip boffin declares – we need it to keep chugging along for the sake of AI

Raw power? More like core power: How and why you need to accelerate AI, at the edge and in the backend

Can Amazon's AI really detect fear? Plus: Fresh deepfake video freaks everyone out again

UK.gov has £12m to help kick-start quantum techs that could be 'adopted at scale' – which is pretty niche, if we're honest

Verity Stob

US soldier cleared of taking armoured vehicle out for joyride – because he's insane, court says

You monsters: Screen time murders your kid's imaginary friend – until they reach school age

Dry patch? Have you considered peppering your flirts with emojis?

Overstock's share price has plummeted. Is it Trump's trade war? Bad results? Nope, its CEO has gone bonkers...

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Networks

How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network for 37 hours, knackering 911 calls, VoIP, broadband

FCC delivers postmortem after blunder cripples US fiber links

20 Aug 20:12 | 44

Networks

RIP Danny Cohen: The computer scientist who gave world endianness meets his end aged 81

He also developed one of the first ever flight simulators

20 Aug 12:15 | 32

Networks

Trump blinks again in trade war bluff-fest with China: Huawei gets another 90-day stay of US import execution

I want to get Huawei, I want to fry Huawei, yeah, yeah, yeah

19 Aug 19:07 | 37

Networks

Salesforce takes the multi-signer DNSSEC ball and runs with it

Extending DNS security protocol to multiple platforms takes root

15 Aug 23:31 | 3

Networks

Cisco axes hundreds, shares tumble amid China cut-off – but we're winning the trade war, right? So much winning

Small percentage of workforce but sign of the times

15 Aug 18:56 | 30

Networks

Virtually all polled enterprises say they'll use SD-WAN in next two years. Do you know what it is? Let us fill you in

BackgrounderSD-WAN, bam, thank you, ma'am

15 Aug 18:00 |

Networks

We're not going Huawei even if you ban our 5G kit, Chinese firm tells UK

Translation: they're in Blighty to stay and they know it

15 Aug 16:36 | 24

Networks

Cisc-o-no! 'We’re being uninvited to bid' on China deals admits CEO as Middle Kingdom snub freaks out investors

Stock price dives as Wall St learns of trouble overseas and weak outlook

15 Aug 00:02 | 58

Networks

Mind your MANRS: Internet Society names and shames network operators that bungle their routing security

Peer-to-peer networks meet peer pressure

14 Aug 19:22 |

Networks

All roads in US cable biz GTT's Brit network seem to lead to Menwith Hill

You know, the US spy station with the golf balls

13 Aug 08:04 | 52

Networks

Just one in five UK constituencies receive 4G from all four mobile operators – research

National roaming still not a thing

09 Aug 12:54 | 17

Networks

Ransomware attackers have gone from 'spray and pray' to 'slayin' prey'

Black HatDon't believe the numbers, say security watchers, it's worse than ever

08 Aug 14:00 | 24

Networks

Virgin Media's Project Lightning now at 1.8m connections. Just 2.2m to go before year's end, right?

And yes, broadband flinger appears to shift focus to hybrid

08 Aug 09:19 | 33

Networks

1Gbps, 4K streaming, buffering a thing of the past – but do Brits really even want full fibre?

AnalysisOver to you, Betteridge's law of headlines*

08 Aug 08:04 | 130

Networks

Off somewhere nice on holibobs? Not if you're flying British Airways: IT 'systems issue' smacks UK airports once again

It's just not summer without a TITSUP* delaying travel, is it?

07 Aug 08:59 | 92

Networks

BT flogs off its fleet vehicle maintenance arm to German private equity types Aurelius

Press 2 for a new van

05 Aug 15:23 | 20

Networks

Cloudflare punts far-right hate-hole 8chan off the internet after 30 slayed in US mass shootings

UpdatedImage board cesspit will be back in one way or another

05 Aug 09:55 | 247

Networks

Broadcom billionaire Henry Nicholas and pal on drugs rap cough up $1m to avoid the clink

Charges for chip giant cofounder and pal downgraded in special plea deal

03 Aug 00:21 | 46

Networks

Apple loses FaceTime patent appeal again. And again. And again. And again. And again... yes, it's the fifth time

Talk about an appealing patent, eh, VirnetX?

02 Aug 18:57 | 52

Networks

Openreach hands out £14m to compensate for broadband outages. Not to you, silly, to your ISP!

BT's digital network biz noticed it wasn't paying out enough

02 Aug 12:22 | 10

Networks

Hull be damned: KCOM shuts shop as UK High Court waves through £627m Macquarie deal

Meanwhile, Vodafone closes Liberty Global gobble

01 Aug 09:56 | 24

Welcome to Hollywood, Claranet-style: You've (not) got mail, or hosted sites for that matter

Can hyperconverged infrastructure live up to the hype and change your life? Tune in online next month to find out

How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network for 37 hours, knackering 911 calls, VoIP, broadband

IBM hears the RISC-V kids partying next door, decides it will make its Power CPU ISA free, too

Latest sneak peek at PowerShell 7 ups the telemetry but... hey... is that an off switch?

Shiny new toys take backseat in Android Studio 3.5 for now as '600 bugs' squished

Microsoft Chrom... Edge hits beta as new browser prepped for biz testing

Microsoft shares twin previews of Windows 10 with Insiders: Toys for some, coal for others

Microsoft: Reckon our code is crap? Prove it and $30k could be yours

Sorry script kiddies, hacktivism isn't cool anymore: No one cares about stuff that's easy-peasy to defend against

Stuff like sophisticated government spyware is scary and all – but don't forget, a single .wmv file can pwn you via VLC

30+ countries, 160,000 emails, $4.2m in cyber-heists… maybe it's time for the Silence hacker crew to change its name

There once was a biz called BitBucket, that told Mercurial to suck it. Now devs are dejected, their code soon ejected

Python the latest language to slither into Microsoft's serverless Azure Functions service

Now CI/CD can get a better piece of the Actions: GitHub expands automation service to build, test, deploy tools

They're climbing through the Windows: CircleCI goes native on Microsoft's OS

Sueball claims Tesla solar panels are so effective, they started fires at Walmart stores

Overseas investors eat the UK tech sector for Brexit: More cash flung about in 7 months than the whole of last year

Don't panic! Don't panic! UK IT job ads plummet as Brexit uncertainty grabs UK tech sector by the short and curlies

Bunch of US states said to be preparing fresh antitrust investigation into Google 'n' pals

A challenger appears: Taiwanese devs' answer to Gemini PDA wraps a Raspberry Pi in a tablet

Brits are sitting on a time bomb of 40m old electronic devices that ought to be recycled

My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)

Lenovo ThinkPad X390: A trusty workhorse that means business but it's not without a few flaws

Brit-built trundlebot eyeing up a July 2020 launch as cams fitted to ExoMars mission rover

Clip, clip, hooray: NASA says it will send Clipper probe to Europa, will attempt no landing there

Squabbles over NASA's lunar lander, Astrobotics takes a punt on ULA and India arrives at the Moon

Astroboffins have spied the largest star that has gone supernova and it's breaking all the rules

Moore's Law isn't dead, chip boffin declares – we need it to keep chugging along for the sake of AI

Raw power? More like core power: How and why you need to accelerate AI, at the edge and in the backend

Can Amazon's AI really detect fear? Plus: Fresh deepfake video freaks everyone out again

UK.gov has £12m to help kick-start quantum techs that could be 'adopted at scale' – which is pretty niche, if we're honest

US soldier cleared of taking armoured vehicle out for joyride – because he's insane, court says

You monsters: Screen time murders your kid's imaginary friend – until they reach school age

Dry patch? Have you considered peppering your flirts with emojis?

Overstock's share price has plummeted. Is it Trump's trade war? Bad results? Nope, its CEO has gone bonkers...

Data Centre > Networks

How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network for 37 hours, knackering 911 calls, VoIP, broadband

RIP Danny Cohen: The computer scientist who gave world endianness meets his end aged 81

Trump blinks again in trade war bluff-fest with China: Huawei gets another 90-day stay of US import execution

Salesforce takes the multi-signer DNSSEC ball and runs with it

Cisco axes hundreds, shares tumble amid China cut-off – but we're winning the trade war, right? So much winning

Virtually all polled enterprises say they'll use SD-WAN in next two years. Do you know what it is? Let us fill you in

We're not going Huawei even if you ban our 5G kit, Chinese firm tells UK

Cisc-o-no! 'We’re being uninvited to bid' on China deals admits CEO as Middle Kingdom snub freaks out investors

Mind your MANRS: Internet Society names and shames network operators that bungle their routing security

All roads in US cable biz GTT's Brit network seem to lead to Menwith Hill

Just one in five UK constituencies receive 4G from all four mobile operators – research

Ransomware attackers have gone from 'spray and pray' to 'slayin' prey'

Virgin Media's Project Lightning now at 1.8m connections. Just 2.2m to go before year's end, right?

1Gbps, 4K streaming, buffering a thing of the past – but do Brits really even want full fibre?

Off somewhere nice on holibobs? Not if you're flying British Airways: IT 'systems issue' smacks UK airports once again

BT flogs off its fleet vehicle maintenance arm to German private equity types Aurelius

Cloudflare punts far-right hate-hole 8chan off the internet after 30 slayed in US mass shootings

Broadcom billionaire Henry Nicholas and pal on drugs rap cough up $1m to avoid the clink

Apple loses FaceTime patent appeal again. And again. And again. And again. And again... yes, it's the fifth time

Openreach hands out £14m to compensate for broadband outages. Not to you, silly, to your ISP!

Hull be damned: KCOM shuts shop as UK High Court waves through £627m Macquarie deal

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Huawei goes all Art of War on us: Switches on 'battle mode' and vows to 'dominate the world'

RIP Danny Cohen: The computer scientist who gave world endianness meets his end aged 81

IBM hears the RISC-V kids partying next door, decides it will make its Power CPU ISA free, too

Breaker, breaker. Apple's iOS 12.4 update breaks jailbreak break, un-breaks the break. 10-4

Networking giant in hot water for selling US govt buggy spy kit? Huawei again? No, it's Cisco

People of Britain: You know that you're not locked into using the same ISP forever, right?

Meet ELIoT – the EU project that wants to commercialize Internet-over-lightbulb

Get ready for a literal waiting list for European IPv4 addresses. And no jumping the line

Giffgaff goody-baddy-bag billing faff: Ofcom fines operator £1.4m for overcharging folks by almost £3m

German data regulator ruminates on big 5G question, shrugs: We'll find Huawei around it

GitHub builds wall round private repos, makes devs in US-sanctioned countries pay for it

Juniper Networks struggles with service providers as US-China trade war continues to suck

Not-so-paltry towers: Vodafone gears up to flog off massive masts business

Virgin Media promises speeds of 1Gpbs to 15 million homes – all without full fibre

O2: We've found Huawei of not using you-know-who's kit in 5G rollout

Hark at that! Arrcus bags $30m venture capital, confirms it's pulling up Broadcom’s shiny new SoC

A bunch of also-RAN: Vodafone and O2 cosy up to share '5G-active' gear

Plusnet holds off spirited charge from Vodafone in broadband complaint charts

Google pays out $13m to make Wi-Spy scandal go away: Bung goes to peeps and privacy orgs

Checkmate, Qualcomm: Apple in billion-dollar bid to gobble Intel’s 5G modem blueprints, staff – new claim

Hi. Sorry, we're still grinding Huawei at this: UK govt once again puts off decision to ban Chinese giant from 5G