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Governments issue alerts after 'sophisticated' state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes Don't get too comfortable: 'Line Dancer' malware may be targeting other vendors, too Security24 Apr 2024 | 2
Miles of optical fiber crafted aboard ISS marks manufacturing first ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics Networks23 Apr 2024 | 18
AI at the edge: from theory to practice Commissioned How AI at the edge offers potential to provide valuable, real-time insights to better navigate complex data and opportunities Commissioned
SpaceX, Northrop Grumman reportedly working on US spy sat program LEO rising in US military: Close encounters of the recon kind Networks19 Apr 2024 | 5
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 | 278
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 | 36
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 | 11
America may end up with paid-for 5G fast lanes under net neutrality anyway Damn you, network virtualization Networks17 Apr 2024 | 22
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 | 92
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
Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs Even tighter requirements, so it's time to put old hardware out to pasture... or find an alternative OS
Misconfigured cloud server leaked clues of North Korean animation scam Outsourcers outsourced work for the BBC, Amazon, and HBO Max to the hermit kingdom
Leicester streetlights take ransomware attack personally, shine on 24/7 City council says it lost control after shutting down systems
If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? Exclusive One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all
Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory All from billions of miles away
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics
Over a million Neighbourhood Watch members exposed through web app bug Unverified users could scoop up data on high-value individuals without any form of verification process
UnitedHealth admits IT security breach could 'cover substantial proportion of people in America' That said, good ol' American healthcare system so elaborately costly, some are forced to avoid altogether
GM shared our driving data with insurers without consent, lawsuit claims Motorists file class action alleging breach of contract and more after their premiums went up
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
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 | 39
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
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