FCC wants telcos to carrier unlock all devices after 60 days Should you stay or should you go now? If Rosenworcel gets her way, there won't be trouble Personal Tech27 Jun 2024 | 1
Americans abroad cut off as AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US suffer roaming outages Why all three at once? Blame Syniverse – everyone else is Networks27 Jun 2024 | 3
Nokia to sell submarine network business to France in $375M deal Comms giant to dump undersea internet cable unit by early 2025 Networks27 Jun 2024 | 2
Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design, homebrew network used for LLM training Exclusive 15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs – helped by switches with custom heat sinks Systems27 Jun 2024 | 2
FCC slaps Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again Less than an hour's profit - that sends a strong message for emergency cover Networks26 Jun 2024 | 6
British Airways blames T5 luggage chaos on fault 'outside of our control' Exclusive It was Vodafone, basically Networks26 Jun 2024 | 90
AT&T wants Big Tech to help fund US internet access Affordable Connectivity funding coming to an end soon... Networks26 Jun 2024 | 15
US mayors urge Congress to ditch red-tape-slaying broadband expansion bill What's the matter, you want China to win, huh? Networks25 Jun 2024 | 17
Britain's Ministry of Defence accused of wasting £174M on 'external advice' Morpheus comms system online by 2025? You must be dreaming Public Sector24 Jun 2024 | 49
AT&T forbidden from cutting landline services to large parts of California Telecoms company will remain a carrier of last resort per CPUC ruling Networks21 Jun 2024 | 18
Starlink stuffs the internet into a backpack by invitation only Satellite dishes not just for roofs anymore Networks21 Jun 2024 | 15
Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites If Putin likes jammin', we hope NATO likes jammin' too Security21 Jun 2024 | 55
AI-assisted automation for clouds and networks climbs Gartner's hype cycles Yes, AI will volunteer to run your IT estate. You might be a fool to trust it AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 2
Satellite phone service could soon become the norm America's Big 3 cellcos all signed up already, though most of the 'non terrestrial' tech not actually live yet Networks19 Jun 2024 | 45
Brit watchdog gnawing on HPE's $14B buy of cable giant Juniper Networks Invites comments from rivals and customers at start of merger probe Networks19 Jun 2024 | 10
50 launches, 1 knighthood – Rocket Lab CEO talks heavy-lift rockets, Venus, and Musk Interview Sir Peter Beck on bringing balance to the market and more Science19 Jun 2024 | 10
T-Mobile US drags New Jersey borough to court over school cell tower permit denial Comms outfit says 'think of the children' isn't a legal reason to reject application Networks18 Jun 2024 | 32
Researchers find Meta's withdrawal of misinformation tool hard to swallow Feature If the new system is so good, why not onboard everyone who accessed the old system? Networks18 Jun 2024 | 41
BT speaks out against Vodafone and Three's mobile marriage plans Fears 'MergeCo' will snaffle disproportionate spectrum Networks18 Jun 2024 | 17
Vietnam's internet again in trouble as three of five submarine cables go down Outages came a day after nation launched giveaway of .VN domains in pursuit of improved digital sovereignty Public Sector18 Jun 2024 | 11
If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – like 100,000+ are – remove it immediately Scripts turn malicious, infects webpages after mysterious CDN swallows domain
Microsoft blamed for million-plus patient record theft at US hospital giant Updated Probe: Worker at speech-recog outfit Nuance wasn't locked out after firing
British Airways blames T5 luggage chaos on fault 'outside of our control' Exclusive It was Vodafone, basically
Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man Now, about that bill for the private jet that's taking him home to Australia …
Um, what ever did happen with network automation? Systems Approach Is it lingering somewhere between fusion power and self-driving cars? Networks17 Jun 2024 | 10
T-Mobile US joins suppliers on $2.7B DoD contract for next-gen comms services Expansive Spiral 4 program to boost capabilities with cutting-edge tech Networks14 Jun 2024 | 6
We need a volunteer to literally crawl over broken glass to fix this network On Call Downside: High chance of injury. Upside: Permanent bragging rights at performance reviews Networks14 Jun 2024 | 92
The dynamics of edge delivery How platform engineering benefits the deployment of virtualized and containerized applications at the edge Webinar
Let's kick off our summer with a pwn-me-by-Wi-Fi bug in Microsoft Windows Patch Tuesday Redmond splats dozens of bugs as does Adobe while Arm drivers and PHP under active attack CSO12 Jun 2024 | 5
FCC takes some action against notorious BGP How's your RPKI-based security plan coming along? Feds want to know Networks07 Jun 2024 | 9
Big Telco takes aim at renewed net neutrality rules New red-tape will cost us big, American ISPs and their lobbyists claim Networks06 Jun 2024 | 10
BT chief blames regulations for UK lagging in next-gen network rollout Someone noticed Britain's about to elect a new govt, amirite? Networks06 Jun 2024 | 50
Wi-Fi can watch your heart beating, Taiwan’s datacenter power outfit Delta finds Computex May come in handy for healthcare orgs, or to turn you off private 5G Networks06 Jun 2024 | 10
UK tribunal greenlights $17.4B advertising monopoly case against Google Chocolate Factory entangled in yet another anti-competitive claim Networks05 Jun 2024 | 7
Nokia demos upper 6 GHz band for mobile, but UK wants it shared with Wi-Fi Splitting hotly contested spectrum could get messy Networks05 Jun 2024 | 39
Unlucky AT&T subscribers struggle to make calls in multi-hour US outage If you're wondering why connectivity seems toast at the moment Networks04 Jun 2024 | 2
Nvidia CEO brushes off Big Tech's attacks on NVLink network tech Computex Says UALink and Ultra Ethernet won't be threat for years as he reveals successor to Blackwell and free NIMs Networks04 Jun 2024 | 1
Flying phone base stations to take off over Japan in 2026 NTT Docomo teams with Airbus subsidiary to make it happen Networks04 Jun 2024 | 2
Court accepts Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim's insider trading settlement Billionaire Arista chief architect to pay inconsequential sum via SEC Networks03 Jun 2024 | 7
US standards agency reports back on just how good age verification software is Getting better, but more work needed Networks03 Jun 2024 | 23
UK may not hit goal of 95% mobile coverage, commons committee warns Sitting in a not-spot in the countryside? It's not great news Networks03 Jun 2024 | 68
Recycling old copper wires could be worth billions for telcos 800,000 metric tons of cabling is just lying there Networks31 May 2024 | 61
Verizon joins satellite phone party, links up to AST SpaceMobile Rival AT&T is also with AST, although T-Mobile went with SpaceX’s Starlink Networks30 May 2024 | 1
Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive Updated Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder Cyber-crime29 May 2024 | 51
T-Mobile to buy US Cellular's wireless ops, plus slice of spectrum for $4.4B You keep the towers, we'll bag the customer list, says T-Mo Networks28 May 2024 | 4
Alibaba Cloud built its edge network hardware on Intel Ethernet ASICs Custom 2U boxen with Tofino inside are in production and mean Chinese cloud has more space for servers Off-Prem28 May 2024 |
Man behind deepfake Biden robocall indicted on felony charges, faces $6M fine FCC wants to hit this political genius with first-of-a-kind punishment Cyber-crime24 May 2024 | 46
TR-069, a protocol that made broadband manageable, turns 20. What's coming next? Interview In less than 13 minutes, we'll get you up to speed on USP Networks23 May 2024 | 10
How Apple Wi-Fi Positioning System can be abused to track people around the globe In-depth SpaceX is smart on this, Cupertino and GL.iNet not so much Networks23 May 2024 | 77
Building cheaper, greener 5G networks How ZTE’s radio network efficiencies can shrink operators’ energy costs and boost profits Sponsored Feature
Starlink offers 'unusually hostile environment' to TCP Hopping satellites every 15 seconds will do that to a protocol, natch Networks22 May 2024 | 97
BT delays deadline for digital landline switch off date Telco told they must protect vulnerable in race to turn off Public Switched Telephone Network Networks21 May 2024 | 109
Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time Deleted about 40 networks that services needed, causing late Thursday fun Off-Prem20 May 2024 | 29
The UK reveals it's spending millions on quantum navigation First commercial flight trials of a quantum-based system that could be a backup for GPS Networks14 May 2024 | 50
Starlink suffers 'degraded service' from solar storm but emerges intact Unusually high activity from Sun may have also hastened Hubble's demise Networks13 May 2024 | 24
FCC slams banhammer on 5G fast lanes with final net neutrality text Any way you network slice it, you can't favor an app, says US watchdog Networks09 May 2024 | 10
Undersea cables must have high-priority protection before they become top targets Interview It's 'essential to national security' ex-Navy intel officer tells us Networks08 May 2024 | 36
Watch out for rogue DHCP servers decloaking your VPN connections Avoid traffic-redirecting snoops who have TunnelVision Spotlight on RSA07 May 2024 | 34
IBM says these back-office, network edge Power 10 servers would be sweet for – yes, you guessed it – AI Short on cores, big on threads and matrix math AI + ML07 May 2024 | 5
Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off Retrospective When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless Personal Tech05 May 2024 | 162
Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes I guess the brains down in Africa gonna take some time to do the things they never should have had Networks03 May 2024 | 36
Florida man gets 6 years behind bars for flogging fake Cisco kit to US military Operation busted after dodgy devices ended up at Air Force Networks02 May 2024 | 41
Huawei's hidden hand in optics research contest shocks scholars Updated US universities awarded money from a corp they had severed ties with Networks02 May 2024 | 21
Lights about to go out on US Affordable Connectivity Program A partial benefit in May then subsidy gets unplugged once and for all Networks02 May 2024 | 17
Microsoft confirms spike in NTLM authentication traffic after Windows Server patch Still using ancient protocol suite? April update might make you wish you weren't Systems02 May 2024 | 11
IBM quantum system elbows into Arm-powered Fugaku supercomputer Slotting in the module for ambitious next-generation compute goals HPC30 Apr 2024 |
Building the power grid of tomorrow Balancing growing demand with changing generation models Commissioned
Satellite of love: SES and Intelsat finally tie the knot in $3.1B acquisition Second time lucky as competition from Starlink and pals increases Networks30 Apr 2024 | 1
FCC votes 3-2 to bring net neutrality back from the dead Law responds again to pings Networks25 Apr 2024 | 16
The cutting edge in power grid management Watch this webinar for a guide to building efficient, secure electricity grids in the digital age Commissioned
Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful Systems Approach Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters Software25 Apr 2024 | 62
Easing the cloud migration journey Huawei’s Net5.5G converged IP network can improve cloud performance, reliability and security, says the company Sponsored Feature
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 | 11
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 | 20
AI at the edge: from theory to practice 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 | 282
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 | 4
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 | 93
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
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 | 18
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