FCC dives in to sink Chinese grip on undersea internet cables Maybe finish ripping and replacing your telco networks first? Networks17 Jul 2025 | 25
Cloudflare fesses up to config change that borked internet access for all Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three Networks16 Jul 2025 | 33
Starlink says SpaceX targeting 2026 for launch of Starship-ready terabit satellites Network update reports median 25 ms latency – in the US – as capacity rockets upwards Networks16 Jul 2025 | 39
With Tomahawk Ultra, Broadcom asks who needs UALink when there's Ethernet? The never Nvidia networking party just got another option Networks15 Jul 2025 | 1
CIOs pause net-new IT investments as global tariff jitters bite World War Fee Uncertainty to blame as businesses wait to see what US Prez Trump does next On-Prem15 Jul 2025 | 7
GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats Networks14 Jul 2025 | 70
ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election As allegations fly regarding fraudulent powers of attorney, one member wants to wind up AFRINIC and start again Networks11 Jul 2025 | 10
Telefónica Germany offloads VMware support to Spinnaker due to high renewal costs 'Our offer from Broadcom was five times higher than we expected' Virtualization11 Jul 2025 | 24
Semiconductor industry could short out as copper runs dry Climate risks threaten to fry the supply chain for essential chipmaking metal Networks08 Jul 2025 | 56
Britain's 5G experience 'among the worst in Europe' says MedUX Official figures for network performance don't play out in user's reality, says monitoring biz Networks08 Jul 2025 | 40
'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data Official notice confirms delay to cutoff until the end of July. Not to worry, AI modelling's in the wings Networks07 Jul 2025 | 55
Ordnance Survey digs deep to prevent costly cable strikes Digital map of subterranean infrastructure promised in 2021 set to launch by year end Networks07 Jul 2025 | 57
UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites Updated Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits? Science06 Jul 2025 | 52
Massive spike in use of .es domains for phishing abuse ¡Cuidado! Time to double-check before entering your Microsoft creds Security05 Jul 2025 | 18
Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister Possibility of joining IRIS² remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeeze Networks05 Jul 2025 | 131
Let's Encrypt rolls out free security certs for IP addresses You probably don't need one, but it's nice to have the option Security03 Jul 2025 | 55
HPE finally closes Juniper deal, but offers no details on what happens next A big shrug to early integration questions Networks02 Jul 2025 | 9
Huawei can't wriggle out of Iran sanctions trial, judge rules Dismissal bid denied as 16-count indictment moves toward court in May 2026 Networks02 Jul 2025 | 4
UK eyes new laws as cable sabotage blurs line between war and peace It might be time to update the Submarine Telegraph Act of 1885 Networks02 Jul 2025 | 82
Amazon's latest Graviton 4 EC2 instances pack dual 300Gbps NICs And no, that's not a typo PaaS + IaaS02 Jul 2025 | 2
Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns
PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it's spouting pandemic piffle Linking can be helpful – but not always… while disinformation can spread like a virus
Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian It did get sourced, but nobody cared
VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out Exclusive Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today
Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years Big Red’s changes to Java licensing also inspire exodus to open source
A software-defined radio can derail a US train by slamming the brakes on remotely Updated Neil Smith has been trying to get the railroad industry to listen since 2012, but it took a CISA warning to get there
Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks'
Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production Who, Me? For the lack of a little documentation, two techies did a lot of accidental damage
Britain's billion-pound F-35s not quite ready for, well, anything Stealth jets can't fight, can't fly much, and can't shoot UK missiles, says NAO
Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed major Russian drone maker's entire network 'Deeply penetrated' Gaskar 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization'
Arista acquires VMware’s VeloCloud SD-WAN outfit from Broadcom It's 2025 so even this networking deal is about AI, which is apparently about to change wide area networks Networks02 Jul 2025 | 4
DoJ clears HPE to buy Juniper if it sells Instant On Wi-Fi and licenses some code Which it will, happily, to create a networking biz that’s still far smaller than Cisco’s or Nvidia’s Networks30 Jun 2025 | 5
How Broadcom is quietly plotting a takeover of the AI infrastructure market feature When AI is a nesting doll of networks, so why reinvent the wheel when you can license it instead Datacenter Networking Nexus27 Jun 2025 | 5
Cisco punts network-security integration as key for agentic AI Getting it in might mean re-racking the entire datacenter and rebuilding the network, though Datacenter Networking Nexus27 Jun 2025 | 6
Before the megabit: A trip through vintage datacenter networking When it was all about the baud rate Datacenter Networking Nexus27 Jun 2025 | 79
The network is indeed trying to become the computer Analysis Masked networking costs are coming to AI systems Datacenter Networking Nexus27 Jun 2025 | 6
Fresh UK postcode tool points out best mobile network in your area Pick a provider based on how good their local 4G and 5G coverage is Networks27 Jun 2025 | 71
Starlink helps eight more nations pass 50 percent IPv6 adoption Brazil debuts, Japan bounces back, and tiny Tuvalu soars on Elon's broadband birds Networks27 Jun 2025 | 14
Cisco fixes two critical make-me-root bugs on Identity Services Engine components A 10.0 and a 9.8 – these aren’t patches to dwell on Datacenter Networking Nexus26 Jun 2025 | 4
The SmartNIC revolution fell flat, but AI might change that Analysis The idea of handing off networking chores to DPUs persists even if it hasn't caught on beyond hyperscalers Datacenter Networking Nexus26 Jun 2025 | 4
AFRINIC election annulled after ICANN writes angry letter to African regional internet registry Updated The group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022 Networks26 Jun 2025 | 23
Rack-scale networks are the new hotness for massive AI training and inference workloads Analysis Terabytes per second of bandwidth, miles of copper cabling, all crammed into the back of a single rack Datacenter Networking Nexus25 Jun 2025 | 2
Three goes to zero as UK mobile provider suffers voice and text outage Millions of customers left speechless Networks25 Jun 2025 | 28
HPE Aruba boasts that when network problems come along, its AI will whip them into shape NetAdmins may be mere years away from devolving into babysitters for bots Datacenter Networking Nexus25 Jun 2025 | 6
Bezos beams up batch two as Project Kuiper plays catch-up with Starlink ULA's Atlas V deploys second load of Amazon's broadband satellites Networks24 Jun 2025 | 6
Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers Networks23 Jun 2025 | 61
Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti Science20 Jun 2025 | 9
AI gives the sleeping network switch market a good kick Q1 revenue jumps to $11.7B, with 400 and 800 GbE driving the spike Networks20 Jun 2025 | 2
DHS warns of sharp rise in Chinese-made signal jammers it calls 'tools of terrorism' Seizures up 830% since 2021, with devices linked to interference in emergency responses Networks20 Jun 2025 | 39
AFRINIC election proceeds after ICANN’s attempt to replace officials fails Regulator remains concerned about election integrity Legal20 Jun 2025 | 4
AFRINIC election delayed after ISP Association wins injunction over voter rights UPDATED Polling was supposed to start on Monday - moved to Wednesday after court revisited the case Legal17 Jun 2025 | 2
BT chief says AI could deliver more job cuts, hints at Openreach sell-off As others roll back use of tech due to quality, customers preferring to talk to humans AI + ML16 Jun 2025 | 27
Armored cash transport trucks allegedly hauled money for $190 million crypto-laundering scheme Asia In Brief PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more Cyber-crime16 Jun 2025 | 3
AST just got a small boost in its D2C battle against Elon Musk's Starlink But the five-satellite upstart has a short time window Networks13 Jun 2025 | 4
PCIe 7.0 specs finalized at 512 GBps bandwidth, PCIe 8.0 in the pipeline Work on next gen already underway, while bandwidth needs for datacenters just keep rising Networks13 Jun 2025 | 6
Breaking free from data gravity: enabling scalable, compliant AI across Asia-Pacific It's time to rethink the application delivery controller in a world where data brings its compute infrastructure with it Partner content
Cisco Borgs all its management tools into a single Cloud Control console Cisco Live Not just a salve for netadmins – this is also a play to ensure Switchzilla is AI-relevant Networks10 Jun 2025 | 5
ICANN waves hands in protest at AFRINIC election arrangement Worries lawyers overseeing poll may have disqualifying entanglements Legal09 Jun 2025 | 3
BT won't budge over pay hike for manager grade employees Prospect union threatens to up campaign, raise dispute with CEO Networks09 Jun 2025 | 30
Techie traced cables from basement to maternity ward and onto a roof, before a car crash revealed the problem On Call Doctor? Why does this hospital network run in such strange places? Networks06 Jun 2025 | 103
Ukrainian carriers are leasing their IPv4 addresses to stay afloat - sometimes after being overrun by Russia Who can begrudge them? Maybe all of us if IP brokers send them to loose operators Networks05 Jun 2025 | 7
Reimagining ADCs for the AI-driven enterprise F5 application delivery and security platform powers the next wave of intelligent, secure, and scalable AI workloads Partner content
Need for speed? CityFibre punts 5.5 Gbps symmetrical broadband at ISPs Altnet claims upgrade puts it ahead of Openreach on performance and cost, with more to come in 2026 Networks04 Jun 2025 | 67
Broadcom aims a Tomahawk at Nvidia's AI networking empire with 102.4T photonic switch Chip giant's latest ASIC promises 200GbE to up to 512 GPUs Networks04 Jun 2025 |
VodafoneThree's a crowd – now comes the hard bit 29M customers, four radio suppliers, and one hell of a network headache Networks02 Jun 2025 | 67
8,000+ Asus routers popped in 'advanced' mystery botnet plot No formal attribution made but two separate probes hint at the same suspect Research29 May 2025 | 10
Thunderbird is go: 139 follows closely on Firefox's heels One of the new smaller monthly releases – and how to tweak it Software29 May 2025 | 44
Eviden unveils satellite monitoring tool, as Starlink asks UK for E band access Space broadband and space-linked phones all very well, but someone's got to track them Networks28 May 2025 | 2
Simplifying complexity in a hybrid, multi-cloud, AI-driven world To prepare your data for AI applications, consolidation and control are key Partner content
UK tax collector puts half a billion on table for call center services Taxpayers on hold for 798 years might wish for a better service Public Sector27 May 2025 | 36
BT managers' union mulls options after 'derisory or non-existent' pay rise Updated Annoyed at poor or missing salary increase offer as Brit telco pays out dividend Networks23 May 2025 | 13
Apartment living to get worse in 5 years as 6 GHz Wi-Fi nears ‘exhaustion’ Cable Labs predicts two percent packet loss and 10ms latency in some buildings unless more spectrum freed Networks22 May 2025 | 137
'Ongoing' Ivanti hijack bug exploitation reaches clouds Nothing like insecure code in security suites CSO21 May 2025 | 4
Virgin Media O2 patches hole that let callers snoop on your coordinates Researcher finds VoLTE metadata could be used to locate users within 100 meters Security20 May 2025 | 33
VPN Secure parent company CEO explains why he had to axe thousands of 'lifetime' deals Admits due diligence fell short - furious users cry ‘gaslighting’ Networks14 May 2025 | 74
Go ahead and ignore Patch Tuesday – it might improve your security No rush, according to Gartner chap who says: 'Nobody has ever out-patched threat actors at scale' Patches14 May 2025 | 34
Why complex networks need additional support Network ops, maintenance issues don’t solve themselves – AI-powered automation can help deal with them Sponsored feature
Arista cats purr over $2B quarter while tariff time bomb ticks World War Fee Networking biz cashes in on AI hysteria, warns trade tensions could disrupt supply and margins Networks08 May 2025 | 2
India ready to greenlight Starlink – as long as it lets New Delhi censor, snoop Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity Networks07 May 2025 | 12
90-second Newark blackout exposes parlous state of US air traffic control United Airlines canceling flights as chaos mounts Networks07 May 2025 | 58
UK's smaller broadband operators face tough road ahead, consolidation possible Report into alternative networks says competition with BT and co making life harder than ever Networks02 May 2025 | 49
Ex-CISA chief decries cuts as Trump demands loyalty above all else RSAC Cybersecurity is national security, says Jen Easterly Spotlight on RSAC30 Apr 2025 | 11
Amazon’s first 27 Kuiper broadband sats make it into orbit on an Atlas V One launch down, 80-plus to go, for a pittance compared to planned AWS spending Networks29 Apr 2025 | 12
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New APNIC director general steps up to steer the internet for 4 billion users Interview Jia Rong Low hopes to make registries interesting again Networks27 Apr 2025 | 5
America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside Opinion The CVE system nearly dying shows that someone has lost the plot CSO23 Apr 2025 | 93
Asia reaches 50 percent IPv6 capability and leads the world in user numbers India and China deliver a nice milestone, with help from ancient internet history Datacenter Networking Nexus23 Apr 2025 | 42
Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us Networks17 Apr 2025 | 17
TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails It's not DNS. It can't be DNS? Right? Networks16 Apr 2025 | 23
New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029 IT admins, get ready to grumble CSO14 Apr 2025 | 126
Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze World War Fee Investment delays are inevitable as uncertainty clouds US trade policy, warns investment bank CxO14 Apr 2025 | 121
Satellite phone tech coming to your mobe this year – but who pays for it? Operators mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance Networks10 Apr 2025 | 45
Wyden blocks Trump's CISA boss nominee, blames cyber agency for 'actively hiding info' about telecom insecurity It worked for in 2018 with Chris Krebs. Will it work again? Networks09 Apr 2025 | 8
UALink debuts its first AI interconnect spec – usable in just 18 short months No-Nvidia networking club is banking on you running different GPUs on one network Datacenter Networking Nexus08 Apr 2025 |
Eight charged with corruption, money laundering, in case linked to Huawei lobbying Chinese tech giant has fired two staff, but Europe's anti-fraud org isn't probing Networks08 Apr 2025 | 6
As CISA braces for more cuts, threat intel sharing takes a hit Analysis How will 'gutting' civilian defense agency make American cybersecurity great again? Public Sector08 Apr 2025 | 11
Brit telcos ask suppliers to clean up emissions mess – politely, with no teeth Digital Connectivity Forum lays out climate goals, but enforcement is strictly optional Networks07 Apr 2025 | 1
Ukraine's techies a 'pillar of support' for national economy after Russian invasion Experts in IT services held up while other sectors fell over the last 5 years, says report Networks04 Apr 2025 | 17
For flux sake: CISA, annexable allies warn of hot DNS threat Shape shifting technique described as menace to national security CSO03 Apr 2025 | 5
Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years Simple denial-of-service blunder turned out to be remote unauth code exec disaster Cyber-crime03 Apr 2025 | 3
Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites now boarding the rocket to relevance Jeff Bezos' other space business finally shows signs of life with launch scheduled for next week Science03 Apr 2025 | 7
Why is someone mass-scanning Juniper and Palo Alto Networks products? Updated Espionage? Botnets? Trying to exploit a zero-day? Networks03 Apr 2025 | 11
Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune AI + ML03 Apr 2025 | 26
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
CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw Resurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bug Cyber-crime01 Apr 2025 | 1
Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole Microsoft giveth with one hand but taketh away with the other OSes31 Mar 2025 | 123
Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you're a data scientist with $3,000 to spare Analysis But will they really upend the enterprise PC market? How about software? Networking, anyone? On-Prem31 Mar 2025 | 18
Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal Comment Social media platform magically worth a billion more than what he bought it for AI + ML31 Mar 2025 | 150
Tech trainer taught a course on software he'd never used and didn't own Who, Me? 'I'm glad you asked that question. We'll get to that tomorrow' (After I research the answer) Networks31 Mar 2025 | 177
Cyber-crew claims it cracked American cableco, releases terrible music video to prove it WOW! DID! SOMEONE! REALLY! STEAL! DATA! ON! 400K! USERS?! Cyber-crime28 Mar 2025 | 7