For flux sake: CISA, annexable allies warn of hot DNS threat Shape shifting technique described as menace to national security CSO03 Apr 2025 | 5
When disaster strikes, proper preparation prevents poor performance It's going to happen to you one day, so get your ducks in a row Disaster Recovery Week03 Apr 2025 | 10
Lightmatter says it's ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer AI accelerators to see the light, literally Networks01 Apr 2025 | 2
Altnets told to stop digging and start stuffing fiber through abandoned pipes Why churn up roads when there's thousands of miles of disused infrastructure underfoot? Networks03 Mar 2025 | 84
Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl APRICOT With a generation of networking engineers set to retire, is this how to give their successors a faster start? Networks27 Feb 2025 | 76
London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world Plus: Fandroid alert – Android devices sometimes say '5G' when connecting to 4G Networks25 Feb 2025 | 27
Maps of terrestrial fibre networks aren’t great. The Internet Society wants to fix that APRICOT Wants regulators and carriers to adopt Open Fibre Data Standard to answer questions like ‘Is that one fibre, or nine?’ Networks24 Feb 2025 | 10
ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics It's Friday. Quit the doomscrolling. Distract yourself with IT infra news Networks21 Feb 2025 | 6
A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid On-Prem20 Feb 2025 | 12
Cisco says it’s already dug in to protect itself – and customers – if trade war breaks out Also reckons it can dodge DOGE Networks13 Feb 2025 | 4
Yup, AMD's Elba and Giglio definitely sound like they work corporate security Which is why Cisco is adding these Pensando DPUs to more switches Networks11 Feb 2025 | 3
T-Mobile goes live with beta of satellite phone service for the US Free text messages for users of its own and rival networks during test period Personal Tech10 Feb 2025 | 23
Netgear fixes critical bugs as Five Eyes warn about break-ins at the edge International security squads all focus on stopping baddies busting in through routers, IoT kit etc Edge + IoT05 Feb 2025 | 4
BT fiber rollout passes 17 million homes, altnet challenge grows Only 35% of those premises actually hooked up though, plus company reports 'higher competitor losses' Networks31 Jan 2025 | 79
Tiny Linux kernel tweak could cut datacenter power use by 30%, boffins say Not bad for 30 lines of code Systems29 Jan 2025 | 66
Hyperoptic customers left in dark as power outage takes down systems What falls down and doesn't get back up? Full fiber broadband in Glasgow Networks29 Jan 2025 | 10
UK telco TalkTalk confirms probe into alleged data grab underway Spinner says crim's claims 'very significantly overstated' Security25 Jan 2025 | 33
What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore? Feature We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course Systems24 Jan 2025 | 35
Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky Updated Free Our Feeds solicits funds to foster AT Protocol that powers decentralized social media Bootnotes14 Jan 2025 | 60
Azure networking snafu enters day 2, some services still limping Struggling to connect to the cloud? You’re not alone Off-Prem10 Jan 2025 | 19
The channel stands corrected: Hardware is a refresh cycle business now Opinion 'For 30 years you thought you were business geniuses,' veteran analyst tells resellers and distributors Channel08 Jan 2025 | 56
UK gives Openreach £289M for 4 rural broadband contracts in 'gigabit by 2030' push Updated Nation's dominant broadband plumber wins ahead of altnets Networks07 Jan 2025 | 35
After China's Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now Opinion If 40 years of faulty building gets blown down, don’t rebuild with the rubble Cyber-crime06 Jan 2025 | 41
Will 2025 be the year satellite-to-smartphone services truly take off? Analysis Connectivity direct to unmodified mobes looms, thanks to Starlink and co Networks02 Jan 2025 | 39
Next-gen Wi-Fi to trade ludicrous speed for the boring art of actually working Eighth generation of the standard is all about ultra reliability Networks02 Jan 2025 | 40
AI ambition is pushing copper to its breaking point SC24 Ayar Labs contends silicon photonics will be key to scaling beyond the rack and taming the heat The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond28 Nov 2024 | 6
China’s tech giants deliver chips for Ethernet variant tuned to HPC and AI workloads 'Global Scheduling Ethernet' looks a lot like tech the Ultra Ethernet Consortium is also working on Networks26 Nov 2024 | 1
UK watchdog hints Voda-Three merger will likely pass Game of Phones settles into its final chapter Networks05 Nov 2024 | 36
Broadcom juices VeloCloud SD-WAN for AI networking VMware Explore VeloRAIN architecture improves service for fat workloads on the edge Networks05 Nov 2024 | 1
No-Nvidias networking club convenes in search of open GPU interconnect Ultra Accelerator Link consortium promises 200 gigabits per second per lane spec will debut in Q1 2025 Networks30 Oct 2024 | 2
xAI picked Ethernet over InfiniBand for its H100 Colossus training cluster Work already underway to expand system to 200,000 Nvidia Hopper chips Systems29 Oct 2024 | 4
FCC probes whether it can pop a cap in ISP data caps 'Our networks have the capacity to meet consumer demand without these restrictions,' says chair Networks16 Oct 2024 | 10
Openreach reveals latest locations facing the copper chop A reminder to get fiber (eventually) or get left behind Networks16 Oct 2024 | 65
BBS legend Ward Christensen logs off for last time at 78 Obit Co-creator of the Computerized Bulletin Board System heads for big forum in the sky Bootnotes15 Oct 2024 | 23
Three and Vodafone: We need to merge because our networks are rubbish Voda users have to fall back to 2G in some places after 3G switchoff, docs claim Networks07 Oct 2024 | 78
Why Cisco reportedly wants in on CoreWeave's rent-a-GPU racket Analysis This may help Switchzilla hit $1B AI sales goal by FY25 Networks06 Oct 2024 |
SpaceX accuses 'meme-stock' rival of 'misinformation' over Starlink signals waiver AST SpaceMobile partners 'provide zero technical support for their opposition,' letter to FCC rages Networks04 Oct 2024 | 29
Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for IoT customers Support stretches to end of 2029, no more maintenance beyond 2026 Networks02 Oct 2024 | 5
AWS must fork out $30.5M after losing P2P network patent scrap No one really wins when a troll, sorry, assertion entity scores a victory Networks30 Sep 2024 | 31
HPE patches three critical security holes in Aruba PAPI More 9.8 bugs? Ay, papi! Patches26 Sep 2024 | 1
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
DoE drops $23M in effort to reinvigorate supercomputing Challenges span energy efficiency, memory, programmability, and national security Systems09 Sep 2024 | 3
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 | 25
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
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 | 26
Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI Take that for ignoring robots.txt! Off-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 49