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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

NARROWER TOPICS

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 | 43

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

ICANN warns UN may sideline tech community from future internet governance

'We built this thing and now you don't want to hear from us – WTF?' is the gist of it

Networks22 Aug 2023 | 55

So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans

We, for one, welcome our distorted-letter-recognizing overlords

Offbeat15 Aug 2023 | 78

China floats strict screentime limits and content crimps for kids

+Comment Two hours a day maximum and a guarantee of no nasties - parents everywhere might just welcome the Communist approach to this issue

Personal Tech03 Aug 2023 | 33

FCC boss says 25Mbps isn't cutting it, Americans deserve 100Mbps now, gigabit later

First refresh of minimums in eight years for the country that invented the internet

Networks26 Jul 2023 | 54

BT and OneWeb deliver internet to rock in Bristol Channel – population 28

More puffins than people on Lundy, and no one wants to say how much it cost

Networks24 Jul 2023 | 36

Amazon sets up shop at Kennedy Space Center to prep Kuiper broadband satellites

Web super-biz dreams of lobbing 3,000-plus internet-relay birds into orbit

Networks22 Jul 2023 | 25

Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs

Fewer than 2% of workstations will be cut off in 'experiment'

Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 69

Beijing wants to make the Great Firewall of China even greater

Also more fiery, with vague but firm orders to create a 'security barrier'

Security17 Jul 2023 | 8

Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain

Ofcom launches investigation into whether telco is making it difficult for people to cancel services

Networks13 Jul 2023 | 78

Internet registry APNIC announces governance and election reforms

Addresses criticisms raised by sections of the community and recent controversies

Networks12 Jul 2023 | 1

You're too dumb to use click-to-cancel, Big Biz says with straight face

Making it easy to exit subscriptions will just baffle everyone, FTC told

Personal Tech12 Jul 2023 | 93

Brit broadband subscribers caught between crappy connections and price hikes

Survey suggests 'mediocre services' now cost 14% more

Networks05 Jul 2023 | 99

It's time to mark six decades of computer networking

Systems Approach As we yearn for a return to a truly decentralized internet

Networks28 Jun 2023 | 91

Singapore to double its submarine cable landing sites by 2033

Anywhere China's navy struggles to reach seems like a nice place for a global internet connectivity hub

Networks07 Jun 2023 | 3

AFRINIC warns members of fake news campaign, voting rights grab

Mysterious society fingered as source

Networks16 May 2023 | 2

Hey Apple, what good is a status page if you only update it after the outage?

It's not just Cupertino, most status pages aren't what they claim to be

Off-Prem15 May 2023 | 21

Cloudflare opposes Europe's plan to make Big Tech help pay for networks

Prefers open peering – from which it profits

Networks09 May 2023 | 14

Amazon: Behold our antennas, which you cannot use just yet

Project Kuiper satellite broadband coming next year, maybe

Networks15 Mar 2023 | 15

Requiem for Google Reader, dead for a decade but not forgotten

Special report RSS pioneer Dave Winer sees Mastodon as a positive sign

Networks14 Mar 2023 | 50

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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

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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

ICANN warns UN may sideline tech community from future internet governance

So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans

China floats strict screentime limits and content crimps for kids

FCC boss says 25Mbps isn't cutting it, Americans deserve 100Mbps now, gigabit later

BT and OneWeb deliver internet to rock in Bristol Channel – population 28

Amazon sets up shop at Kennedy Space Center to prep Kuiper broadband satellites

Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs

Beijing wants to make the Great Firewall of China even greater

Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain

Internet registry APNIC announces governance and election reforms

You're too dumb to use click-to-cancel, Big Biz says with straight face

Brit broadband subscribers caught between crappy connections and price hikes

It's time to mark six decades of computer networking

Singapore to double its submarine cable landing sites by 2033

AFRINIC warns members of fake news campaign, voting rights grab

Hey Apple, what good is a status page if you only update it after the outage?

Cloudflare opposes Europe's plan to make Big Tech help pay for networks

Amazon: Behold our antennas, which you cannot use just yet

Requiem for Google Reader, dead for a decade but not forgotten

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