For flux sake: CISA, annexable allies warn of hot DNS threat
Shape shifting technique described as menace to national security
CSO03 Apr 2025 | 5
Network
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
NARROWER TOPICS
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
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