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The fix for BGP's weaknesses has big, scary, issues of its own, boffins find

Bother, given the White House has bet big on RPKI – just like we all rely on immature internet infrastructure that usually works

Security02 Oct 2024 | 9

World Wide Web Foundation closes so Tim Berners-Lee can spend more time with his protocol

Who wants to join his so Solid crew?

Networks30 Sep 2024 | 25

Musk's Starlink rockets to 4 million subscribers

Satellite broadband mega-constellation passes mega-milestone

Networks27 Sep 2024 | 51

New RFC explains how protocol developers can avoid building human rights abuses into the internet

Something tells us Vlad and Xi probably won't bother reading it

Software18 Sep 2024 | 16

Telcos scolded for unwanted erection of utility poles in race to wire up Britain

Telecoms minister pleads with operators to work together

Networks16 Sep 2024 | 80

250 million-plus unused IPv4 addresses should be left alone, argues network boffin

Tests show it's just too hard to put the unused 240/4 block to work

Networks16 Sep 2024 | 91

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Tim Berners-Lee

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Big Tech got its 'next billion' – but there's three billion people still offline

The GSMA and its friends are looking for ways to bring those within mobile range onto the 'net

Networks03 Sep 2024 | 8

B2B ISP Fastnet staggers back to feet after VMware incident

Company continues to investigate root cause

VMware Explore19 Aug 2024 | 8

India shuffles away draft law treating influencers like real broadcasters

Online celebs might find that flattering – but not if it means a committee must approve their next livestream

Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 12

Israeli hacktivist group brags it took down Iran's internet

WeRedEvils alleges successful attack on infrastructure, including data theft

Cyber-crime02 Aug 2024 | 8

Malaysia is working on an internet 'kill switch', says minister

Follows requirement for social media and messaging platforms to get a license

Public Sector30 Jul 2024 | 21

French internet cables cut in act of sabotage that caused outages across country

Axe attack comes just days after arsonists target rail network

Networks29 Jul 2024 | 60

China ponders creating a national 'cyberspace ID'

Because clearly it's better for Beijing to know who you are than for every ISP and social service to keep its own records

Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 19

FTC sticks a probe into 'surveillance pricing' Big Biz uses to gouge us all

Ever had to shop in incognito mode to avoid paying more? This one's for you

Software23 Jul 2024 | 28

Antitrust: GoDaddy under fire for banning DNS automation tool in favor of its own

Updated Domain name giant yanked into court after Entri Connect disconnect

Networks16 Jul 2024 | 9

Internet Archive blames 'environmental factors' for overnight outages

Power failure rather than lawyers to blame for Wayback Machine wandering off

On-Prem08 Jul 2024 | 5

Tech luminaries warn United Nations its Digital Compact risks doing more harm than good

Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf and more from orgs like IETF, W3C, IANA worry if techies are ignored the web could end up centralized

Public Sector03 Jul 2024 | 25

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 | 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

Stanford Internet Observatory wilts under legal pressure during election year

Because who needs disinformation research at times like these

Research14 Jun 2024 | 85

Twitter 'supersharers' of fake news tend to be older Republican women

Tiny percentage of users make X miss the spot

Personal Tech01 Jun 2024 | 210

Pew: Quarter of web pages vanished in past decade

Luckily we have the Wayback Machine

Personal Tech20 May 2024 | 27

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

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

Sacramento airport goes no-fly after AT&T internet cable snipped

Police say this appears to be a 'deliberate act.'

Cyber-crime19 Apr 2024 | 44

404 Day celebrates the internet's most infamous no-show

Nothing is forever, not even a web page

Offbeat05 Apr 2024 | 67

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

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 | 36

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 | 9

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 | 70

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 | 49

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

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The fix for BGP's weaknesses has big, scary, issues of its own, boffins find

World Wide Web Foundation closes so Tim Berners-Lee can spend more time with his protocol

Musk's Starlink rockets to 4 million subscribers

New RFC explains how protocol developers can avoid building human rights abuses into the internet

Telcos scolded for unwanted erection of utility poles in race to wire up Britain

250 million-plus unused IPv4 addresses should be left alone, argues network boffin

BROADER TOPICS

NARROWER TOPICS

NARROWER TOPICS

Online media outstrips TV as source of news for the first time in the UK

India to train 5,000 'Cyber Commandos'

White House thinks it's time to fix the insecure glue of the internet: Yup, BGP

Big Tech got its 'next billion' – but there's three billion people still offline

B2B ISP Fastnet staggers back to feet after VMware incident

India shuffles away draft law treating influencers like real broadcasters

Israeli hacktivist group brags it took down Iran's internet

Malaysia is working on an internet 'kill switch', says minister

French internet cables cut in act of sabotage that caused outages across country

China ponders creating a national 'cyberspace ID'

FTC sticks a probe into 'surveillance pricing' Big Biz uses to gouge us all

Antitrust: GoDaddy under fire for banning DNS automation tool in favor of its own

Internet Archive blames 'environmental factors' for overnight outages

Tech luminaries warn United Nations its Digital Compact risks doing more harm than good

Nokia to sell submarine network business to France in $375M deal

Vietnam's internet again in trouble as three of five submarine cables go down

Stanford Internet Observatory wilts under legal pressure during election year

Twitter 'supersharers' of fake news tend to be older Republican women

Pew: Quarter of web pages vanished in past decade

Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes

Lights about to go out on US Affordable Connectivity Program

Sacramento airport goes no-fly after AT&T internet cable snipped

404 Day celebrates the internet's most infamous no-show

UK minister tells telcos to share telegraph poles if they can't lay cable underground

X protests forced suspension of accounts on orders of India's government

250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them

America's broadband bill subsidy runs out of money and halts enrollments

Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage

Musk lashes out at Biden administration over rural broadband

David Mills, the internet's Father Time, dies at 85

Linus Torvalds postpones Linux 6.8 merge window after being taken offline by storms

FCC's Affordable Connectivity Program dangles by a financial thread

Open source's new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before

Cloudflare dishes up the stats on internet traffic in 2023

What's the golden age of online services? Well, now doesn't suck

Openreach hits halfway mark in quest to hook up 25M premises with fiber broadband

China gamifies censorship and surveillance with national internet law quiz

Amazon hitches a ride with SpaceX for Project Kuiper launches

No link between internet use and poor mental health, according to Oxford boffins

India's space gatekeepers pick Eutelsat OneWeb to provide satellite broadband

Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist

Net privacy wars will be with us always. Let's set some rules

Amazon's Project Kuiper thrusters deliver Prime orbit adjustments

Major telco outage leaves millions of Australians disconnected

Indonesia grounds second broadband satellite to free up digital inclusion funds

Net neutrality is back in the Land of the Free – for now

Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites prepare for testing after one late Prime delivery

China requires any new domestic Wi-Fi kit to support IPv6 and run it by default

Japanese PM says international AI regulations will be here by Christmas

Two Project Kuiper prototype satellites finally reach orbit

How TCP's congestion control saved the internet

Starlink speeds ahead in the satellite race but rivals aren't starstruck just yet

Amazon's three rocket makers insist Project Kuiper will launch on schedule

When does tackling pandemic misinfo become censorship? US courts argue it out

22 million Brits suffer broadband outage blues and are paying a premium for it

USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

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