Networks
APNIC: Big Tech's use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation
IPv4 limits apps to simple interactions, and in 2021 IPv6 adoption growth was just three per cent
20 Jan 2022 03:58 | 183
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Networks
Tonga takes to radio, satellite, motorboat comms to restore communications after massive volcano blast and tsunami
Next steps for island nation
18 Jan 2022 19:57 | 34
Networks
Indian government tells Starlink to refund pre-orders placed before licences approved
Elon Musk's satellite internet company 'remains excited to serve' the country
05 Jan 2022 12:57 | 26
Off-Prem
New submarine cable to link Japan, Europe, through famed Northwest Passage
Alternative route will skip the Suez Canal and other tricky spots
21 Dec 2021 23:30 | 58
Off-Prem
Big Tech's private networks and protocols threaten the 'net, say internet registries
APNIC and LACNIC worry about who will set the rules of future internetworking
09 Dec 2021 07:04 | 5
On-Prem
He called himself the King of Fraud. Now this bot lord will reign in prison for years
Thousands of servers, hundreds of thousands of IP addresses used by scammer to drum up $7m in fake web advert impressions
13 Nov 2021 00:39 | 58
Networks
Billion-dollar US broadband bonanza awaits Biden's blessing – what you need to know
Infrastructure bill brings $65bn to freshen up American internet
10 Nov 2021 01:57 | 25
Networks
Amazon hasn't launched one internet satellite yet, but it's now planning a fleet of 7,774
Low Earth orbit is going to be chockablock with broadband-beaming birds
05 Nov 2021 22:44 | 59
Networks
Here comes the blob: Asia's top 'net boffin thinks 'shapeless services' could replace the Internet
Common network services are less important when we've moved to apps hosted at the edge
25 Oct 2021 03:58 | 47
Legal
Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams
1.6 million people sat teaching eligibility test, chasing 40,000 jobs
27 Sep 2021 05:57 | 35
Personal Tech
Square-shaped hole in workers' wallets after payment system fails at peak tip time
Unexplained service issue blamed after customers unable to leave gratuities electronically
23 Sep 2021 00:37 | 17
Networks
Forget that Loon's balloon burst, we just fired 700TB of laser broadband between two cities, says Alphabet
Up to 20Gbps link sustained over the Congo in comms experiment
17 Sep 2021 00:22 | 39
Networks
Singapore is the only nation with a dedicated 'net link to China. And they've just agreed to expand its use
Now to get the rest of ASEAN bloc interested, says Singapore government exec
25 Aug 2021 08:08 | 16
Personal Tech
Once again, Facebook champions privacy ... of its algorithms: Independent probe into Instagram shut down
AlgorithmWatch ends newsfeed study after 'thinly veiled threat'
13 Aug 2021 22:53 | 16
Security
Never mind the trolls, Discord hosts 'significant volumes of malware' in its CDN
Biz insists it's trying as hard as possible to scrub clean its IRC-for-the-2020s
23 Jul 2021 01:32 | 8
Personal Tech
BT to phase out 3G in UK by 2023 for EE, Plusnet, BT Mobile subscribers
Cos 4G and 5G will be all hunky-dory by then, yeah?
15 Jul 2021 07:31 | 84
Bootnotes
That time a startup tried to hire me just to push clients' products in job interviews
Veteran technologist Terence Eden recalls upstart's solicitation for shills
10 Jul 2021 07:03 | 56
Interview
In conversation with Gene Hoffman, co-creator of the internet's first ad blocker
El Reg revisits those early days of the internet and learns of the NSA tipping off Boeing about French spying
08 Jul 2021 08:30 | 33
Updated
You had one job: Akamai's Prolexic Denial-of-Service protection system fingered after users in Australia denied, er, services
Major banks, websites, gaming services, and more taken down
17 Jun 2021 09:15 | 6
Updated
Funny how Sir Tim Berners-Lee, famous for hyperlinks, is into NFTs, glorified hyperlinks
Source code auction 'similar to selling an autograph copy of a book'
16 Jun 2021 06:27 | 30
Networks
Price-capped broadband on hold for New York State after judge rules telcos would 'suffer unrecoverable losses'
Injunction halts introduction of $15-a-month fee for low-income households
14 Jun 2021 19:11 | 14
Updated
Global Fastly outage takes down many on the wibbly web – but El Reg remains standing
'Potential impact to performance' drops some of the world's biggest websites offline
08 Jun 2021 10:46 | 103
Updated
After staff revolt, Freenode management takes over hundreds of IRC channels for 'policy violations'
Gentoo and Raku call foul
26 May 2021 21:16 | 62
Networks
Frontier sued by FTC, six states for allegedly over-promising, under-delivering broadband
ISP denies wrongdoing, notes how difficult it is to get wires to rural areas
20 May 2021 00:26 | 17
Networks
Maybe high-speed internet is infrastructure after all, say US Republicans in proposal to spend $65bn over five years
Our plan is better than President Biden's, they claim, with few details
23 Apr 2021 18:32 | 24
Networks
Bringing gigabit internet to Rural America requires equitable spectrum access, claims industry body
WISPA it softly - seven million people rely on wireless connections
25 Mar 2021 22:36 | 13
In-depth
What could possibly go wrong? Sublet your home broadband to strangers who totally won't commit crimes
Money for nothing but your nicked IP
19 Mar 2021 18:01 | 64
SaaS
Wikimedia Foundation to offer community's free content via paid-for Enterprise API
Looking for a service-level agreement? Have we got a deal for you
17 Mar 2021 23:58 | 9
Software
Huge if true: If you show people articles saying that Firefox is faster than Chrome, they'll believe it
Mozillians formulate 'prime' directive for browser's comeback following psychological study
11 Mar 2021 21:32 | 88
Personal Tech
War on Section 230 begins in earnest as Dem senators look to limit legal immunity for social networks, websites etc
Trio introduce SAFE TECH Act to US Senate
05 Feb 2021 22:01 | 88
Networks
In the old days, coups started by seizing TV and radio stations. Now they crimp the internet at 3am
And yes, that's what happened in Myanmar this week
02 Feb 2021 03:00 | 19
Personal Tech
Robinhood plays Sheriff of Nottingham as it pauses GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry etc stock sales, gets sued
He steals from the rich, and gives to the... wait, which side is the poor side now?
28 Jan 2021 21:52 | 121
Security
Oblivious DoH, OPAQUE passwords, Encrypted Client Hello: Cloudflare's protocol proposals to protect privacy
'Adopting these may have legal and policy implications'
08 Dec 2020 18:45 | 28
AI + ML
Alphabet's internet Loon balloon kept on station in the sky using AI that beat human-developed control code
Maybe this might work after all
03 Dec 2020 12:30 | 21
Personal Tech
After Trump, Congress, Supreme Court Justice hit out at tech giants' legal immunity, now FCC boss wants to stick his oar in, too
Pai says he wants to 'clarify' Section 230's 26 words even though he probably can't do anything about it
16 Oct 2020 00:08 | 58
Personal Tech
Facebook's anti-trademark bot torpedoes .org website that just so happened to criticize Zuck's sucky ethics board
What are the chances?
09 Oct 2020 00:24 | 44
Video
First analysts, now YouTubers put you on blast. Do you A) take it on the chin or B) up fire up the DMCA-o-tron?
Guess which option this electric truck dreamer chose
03 Oct 2020 13:28 | 32
Networks
Internet Archive's way cool Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over pact
And Cloudflare customers get way better availability
17 Sep 2020 22:56 | 7
Science
Open access journals are vanishing from the web, Internet Archive stands ready to fill in the gaps
Diamonds are forever, scholarly articles not so much, it seems
10 Sep 2020 07:04 | 36
Networks
Breaching China's Great Firewall is hard. Pushing packets faster than 1Mbps once through is the Boss Fight
Network boffin finds packets headed into China go AWOL yet packets coming out do just fine
20 Aug 2020 06:29 | 23
Analysis
Trump issues toothless exec order to show donors, fans he's doing something about those Twitter twerps
Amid political theater, Section 230 protection loss dangled
29 May 2020 00:26 | 223
Networks
Record-breaking Aussie boffins send 44.2 terabits a second screaming down 75km of fiber from single chip
Tech is perhaps five years away from actual deployment, we're told
22 May 2020 22:07 | 59
Networks
Internet root keymasters must think they're cursed: First, a dodgy safe. Now, coronavirus upends IANA ceremony
Pandemic lockdown forces new measures on crucial crypto process than underpins world's DNS
22 Apr 2020 10:49 | 40
Bootnotes
Facebook, distributor of deceptive political ads, sues registrar Namecheap over deceptive domain names
'We don’t want people to be deceived'... unless it's by paying politicians
06 Mar 2020 00:40 | 27
Security
Let's Encrypt: OK, maybe nuking three million HTTPS certs at once was a tad ambitious. Let's take time out
Online security initiative halts hurried purge to accommodate reality
05 Mar 2020 20:58 | 12
Updated
Crypto-upstart subpoenas Glassdoor to unmask ex-staff believed to be behind negative reviews. EFF joins the fray
Parent of Kraken wants to know who's daring to speak their mind
12 Feb 2020 21:22 | 37
Networks
ICANN't approve the sale of .org to private equity – because California's Attorney General has... concerns
DNS overseer gets letter demanding documents about controversial registry sale
31 Jan 2020 21:24 | 44
Software
Stack Overflow makes peace with ousted moderator, wants to start New Year with 2020 vision on codes of conduct
Q&A biz admits mistakes, promises more discreet public communication
02 Jan 2020 22:16 | 85
Security
Advertisers want exemption from web privacy rules that, you know, enforce privacy
They also want a ban on interfering with their cookies
09 Dec 2019 22:41 | 49
Personal Tech
Elon Musk gets thumbs up from jury for use of 'pedo guy' in cave diver defamation lawsuit
CEO's tweeted taunt totally fine, twelve jurors decide
07 Dec 2019 00:15 | 234
Updated
PSA: You are now in the timeline where Facebook and pals are torn a new one by, er, Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen
The Dictator leading man says web giants would run 'Final Solution' ads for Hitler
22 Nov 2019 20:29 | 85
Networks
Whoa! Google to power Amazon's internet. Wait, oh, not that Amazon. The other one. The rainforest
While there's still a rainforest left, that is
22 Nov 2019 04:11 | 5
Networks
Iran kills the internet for its people's own good as riots grip the Middle Eastern nation
Country offline for third day in response to protests
19 Nov 2019 01:12 | 75
Analysis
You're ARIN a laugh: Critical internet org accused of undercutting security over legal fears
America's regional internet registry slammed by critics, snubbed by ISPs
28 Oct 2019 17:00 | 6
Networks
China and Russia join to battle 'illegal internet content,' which means what you fear it does
Authoritarian regimes continue wrestling internet back into box
09 Oct 2019 20:52 | 45
Devops
Flak overflow: Barrage of criticism prompts very public Stack Overflow apology
Sorry mods, we'll do better, promises CTO (again)
08 Oct 2019 06:05 | 93
On-Prem
EU's top court says tracking cookies require actual consent before scarfing down user data
Filling out a checkbox in advance to encourage acceptance won't cut it
02 Oct 2019 07:02 | 125
Legal
Planes, boats and autocrats: US Treasury Dept. slaps more sanctions on accused Russian troll funder
US wants to take St. Vitamin, the yacht of Yevgeniy Prigozhin
30 Sep 2019 19:48 | 18
Security
Mozilla boots alleged snoop troupe from its root cert coop: UAE-based DarkMatter thrown onto CA blocklist
Maker of Firefox fires fox from hen house guard duty
10 Jul 2019 01:33 | 14
Personal Tech
Stiff penalty: Prenda Law copyright troll gets 14 years of hard time for blue view 'n sue scam
That's a wrap for the file-sharing skin flick shakedown
14 Jun 2019 23:45 | 70
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