DoE drops $23M in effort to reinvigorate supercomputing
Challenges span energy efficiency, memory, programmability, and national security
Systems09 Sep 2024 | 3
Network
Xockets rockets Nvidia: Blackwell debut threatened by DPU patent claims
GPU giant accused of colluding with Microsoft, RPX to sideline startup
Systems08 Sep 2024 | 11
Foot-thick wall workaround: Gigabit network links beamed through solid concrete
Makes cabling a bit less onerous, says WaveCore maker
Networks06 Sep 2024 | 24
13 days into the outage, will Kaseya's Traverse trip back to life today?
'Potential issue' in infrastructure of network monitoring tool results in lengthy, ongoing downtime
OSes05 Sep 2024 | 12
White House thinks it's time to fix the insecure glue of the internet: Yup, BGP
Better late than never
Networks03 Sep 2024 | 26
Cisco slashes thousands of staff, 7% of entire workforce, pivots into AI
Reorg of entire biz as tech giant addresses downturn in core networking segment
Networks15 Aug 2024 | 15
NARROWER TOPICS
Cisco plans to slash thousands more jobs amid AI, cybersecurity push
Updated Cuts reportedly to come as soon as Wednesday's earnings release
Networks12 Aug 2024 | 13
What a glimpse inside the Black Hat NOC reveals about infosec pros' security habits
Black Hat Basic Auth among web traffic? Possible flaw in a well-known commercial VPN product? 'Security has to watch its own things'
Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2024 | 3
HPE's $14B bid for Juniper waved through by UK regulator
Probe began in June and was over by August, no need for corporate lobbying (you hearing this Microsoft?)
Networks07 Aug 2024 | 4
Huawei Cloud built a network monitor so sensitive it spotted the impact of a single faulty chip
Sigcomm 2024 Focus on physical ports helped spot issues across 100,000 switches and a million servers
Networks07 Aug 2024 | 5
Need to move 1.2 exabytes across the world every day? Just Effingo
Sigcomm 2024 That’s what Google calls its massively parallel data copy service operating on dozens of clusters
Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2024 | 25
Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency
Sigcomm 2024 MegaTE can arrange things so each endpoint gets just the network it needs
Cloud Infrastructure Month05 Aug 2024 | 3
NASA sends 4K video from a flying plane to the ISS using lasers
900 Mbps from Earth to orbit, and I still can't get reliable Wi-Fi in my backyard
Networks25 Jul 2024 | 22
Microsoft wants fatter pipes between its AI datacenters, asks Lumen to make light work of it
Is this what the kidz call a glow-up?
Networks24 Jul 2024 | 1
FCC: US telcos a long way off, several billions short of removing Chinese kit
Updated Just 12% of providers have completed rip and replace of ZTE, Huawei
Networks11 Jul 2024 | 4
China pushes for network upgrade blitz as IPv6 adoption slows
UPDATED Almost 800 million use the protocol, with more to come as Wi-Fi mandate arrives order arrives to quit NAT
Networks10 Jul 2024 | 26
RADIUS networking protocol blasted into submission through MD5-based flaw
If someone can do a little MITM'ing and hash cracking, they can log in with no valid password needed
Research10 Jul 2024 | 11
64% of people not happy about idea of AI-generated customer service
Not unreasonably, nearly half worried it would give them the 'wrong answers'
Personal Tech09 Jul 2024 | 54
FCC: T-Mobile US unit gave blind customer the runaround in massive tech support fail
Assurance Wireless must sort out accessibility after handing customer a phone without a screen reader
Networks05 Jul 2024 | 22
Paessler pulls subscription licensing switcheroo on PRTG Network Monitor
Exclusive Customers seek alternatives after claiming costs up from perpetual
Networks05 Jul 2024 | 25
Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI
Take that for ignoring robots.txt!
Off-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 49
Nokia to buy Infinera for $2.3B
Aims to expand optical networking biz, particularly in North America
Networks28 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 | 6
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
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
FCC takes some action against notorious BGP
How's your RPKI-based security plan coming along? Feds want to know
Networks07 Jun 2024 | 9
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
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
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
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
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 |
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
John Deere now considers VMs to be legacy tech, Ethernet and Wi-Fi on the brink
Next Plans robo-tractors to help as folks flee the farm but the planet stays hungry
Virtualization22 May 2024 | 30
Starlink offers 'unusually hostile environment' to TCP
Hopping satellites every 15 seconds will do that to a protocol, natch
Networks22 May 2024 | 98
Big Tech is not much help when fighting a junta, and FOSS doesn't ride to the rescue
Opponents of Myanmar’s internet-nobbling military government don't like when Facebook asks for their real names
Security21 May 2024 | 25
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
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
Patch up – 4 critical bugs in ArubaOS lead to remote code execution
Ten vulnerabilities in total for admins to apply
Patches02 May 2024 | 4
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and 'The Singularity,' dies at 79
Obituary CompSci and math professor by trade, he envisaged a galactic Usenet, and was utterly brilliant
Offbeat22 Mar 2024 | 72
Japan's NTT and NEC reckon they can boost optical network capacities 12x
First tests of manycore fibres hailed as success over oceanic distances
Off-Prem22 Mar 2024 | 4
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
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
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 | 161
Broadcom says VMware to grow revenue by double-digit percentages all year
Networking silicon surges, Carbon Black to be kept in the fold
Virtualization08 Mar 2024 | 12
Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon
To detect seismic waves, silly
Science06 Mar 2024 | 24
FCC: April is last month for Affordable Connectivity Program payments
US broadband customers prepare for the great disconnection
Networks05 Mar 2024 | 8
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 |
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
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
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
Curious tale of broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago
Interview It’s not NTP. There’s no way it’s NTP. It was NTP
On-Prem09 Feb 2024 | 32
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 |
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