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
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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
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
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
The data must flow! Facebook and Google funding Apricot – a 12,000-kilometre sub cable across South-East-Asia
Nations from Indonesia to Japan to score 190 terabits per second of capacity some time in 2024
17 Aug 2021
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
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
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
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
In conversation with Gene Hoffman, co-creator of the internet's first ad blocker
Interview El Reg revisits those early days of the internet and learns of the NSA tipping off Boeing about French spying
08 Jul 2021
You had one job: Akamai's Prolexic Denial-of-Service protection system fingered after users in Australia denied, er, services
Updated Major banks, websites, gaming services, and more taken down
17 Jun 2021
Funny how Sir Tim Berners-Lee, famous for hyperlinks, is into NFTs, glorified hyperlinks
Updated Source code auction 'similar to selling an autograph copy of a book'
16 Jun 2021
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
Global Fastly outage takes down many on the wibbly web – but El Reg remains standing
Updated 'Potential impact to performance' drops some of the world's biggest websites offline
08 Jun 2021
After staff revolt, Freenode management takes over hundreds of IRC channels for 'policy violations'
Updated Gentoo and Raku call foul
26 May 2021
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
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
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
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