Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum'
Because AI won’t only run in Big Tech’s giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connections
Edge + IoT11 Feb 2026 |
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Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie
Just change the name to CAIsco already, Chuck
Networks11 Feb 2026 |
AFRINIC says it's back on track and will soon deliver the plan that proves it
APRICOT 2026 As the governance policy designed to protect regional internet registries nears completion
Networks10 Feb 2026 |
Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks
Operation Cyber Guardian involved 100-plus staff across government and industry
Cyber-crime10 Feb 2026 | 4
AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment
APRICOT 2026 Leaving you to worry about the effects on your team, vendor lock-in, tokenomics, and more
Networks10 Feb 2026 | 19
Cisco challenges Broadcom, Nvidia with a 102.4T switch of its own
Switchzilla leans on P4 programmability and revamped congestion controls to differentiate its latest Silicon One ASIC
Networks10 Feb 2026 |
Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon
Systems Approach Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex
Networks10 Feb 2026 | 31
Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty
FOSDEM 2026 One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all
Networks09 Feb 2026 | 21
Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines
Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown
Networks07 Feb 2026 | 114
CISA orders federal agencies to rip out EOL edge kit before cybercrooks move in
A year to replace end-of-support firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways
Networks06 Feb 2026 | 6
Netlife Ecuador partners with ZTE to advance smart cloud platform deployment and accelerate smart home innovation
Commercial rollout boosts after-sales efficiency and strengthens smart home security
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Italy claims cyberattacks 'of Russian origin' are pelting Winter Olympics
Right on cue, petulant hacktivists attempt to disrupt yet another global sporting event
Cyber-crime05 Feb 2026 | 33
CISA updated ransomware intel on 59 bugs last year without telling defenders
GreyNoise's Glenn Thorpe counts the cost of missed opportunities
CSO03 Feb 2026 | 4
Polish cops bail 20-year-old bedroom botnet operator
DDoSer of 'strategically important' websites admitted to most charges
Cyber-crime03 Feb 2026 | 4
Backblaze says AI traffic and neoclouds could shape future networks
The western US saw the most activity overall
Networks30 Jan 2026 |
Internet spent Q4 '25 losing fights with cables, power, and itself
Latest data from Cloudflare shows cable cuts, power failures, and network faults drive steady run of internet outages
Networks26 Jan 2026 | 1
Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy
Thankfully they only sufffered two outages in 2025. And now it has flown in experts to play with configurations
PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2026 | 14
Fortinet admits FortiGate SSO bug still exploitable despite December patch
Fix didn't quite do the job – attackers spotted logging in
CSO23 Jan 2026 | 3
EU's Digital Networks Act sets telcos squabbling before the ink is dry
Comms harmonization plan already drawing fire from operators and Big Tech alike
Networks22 Jan 2026 | 12
Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers
Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade
Patches22 Jan 2026 | 42
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler
AI agents build something that mostly works but worries the project's creator
Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty
FOSDEM 2026 One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all
BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers
UK's pay-to-watch license fee gets inflation-linked hike amid funding debate
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography
FOSDEM 2026 Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer
More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster
By default, the bot listens on all network interfaces, and many users never change it
Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon
Systems Approach Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office
Who, Me? You can fix all sorts of things with a paperclip, but not gullibility
Discord to start assuming all users are underage unless they prove otherwise
Although you might be able to wiggle out if its AI age-inference model decides you’re an adult
Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere
Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premier
Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt
Chaos-inciting fake news right this way
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Another week, another emergency patch as Cisco plugs Unified Comms zero-day
The critical-rated flaw leaves unpatched systems open to full takeover
Networks22 Jan 2026 | 1
AI networking startup Upscale AI scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch
Plans to swing SkyHammer silicon into UALink switches later this year
Networks22 Jan 2026 |
EU considers whether there's Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years
Still dominant in Germany's networks, among others
Networks21 Jan 2026 | 16
Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, reckons he can handle edge AI alone
Interview OG CDN boss says fighting illegal streams is about stopping criminals cashing in, not free speech
Legal20 Jan 2026 | 12
AIS and ZTE achieve AIR RAN commercialization for differentiated experience at Thailand BMMF#15
AIR RAN delivers premium 5G experience monetization and zero-lag performance at Thailand’s largest music festival
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Lawmakers urge FTC to probe Trump Mobile over 'deceptive' marketing
Gold phone more like fool's gold as none show up six months later
Personal Tech16 Jan 2026 | 70
Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon
You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink
Systems15 Jan 2026 |
France fines telcos €42M for sub-par security prior to 24M customer breach
Three major GDPR violations, including a lack of basic security controls, lead to hefty dent in profits
Cyber-crime14 Jan 2026 | 10
Buy servers now or cry later: DRAM price spike threatens infrastructure budgets
Component up 63% since September, more pricey memory coming to a supply chain near you
Storage14 Jan 2026 | 11
CTECC and ZTE Redefine Disaster Response with Air-Space-Ground Intelligent Emergency System
Integrated UAV, satellite and ground networks restore connectivity during the critical 72-hour rescue window
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ZTE recognized on CDP Climate A ist for third consecutive year, ranking among the global top 4%
ZTE’s sustained climate leadership reflects strong governance and measurable green outcomes
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Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine
Labels Rome's comms regulator ‘a quasi-judicial body’ that works on behalf of ‘shadowy, European media cabal’
Legal12 Jan 2026 | 158
Help desk read irrelevant script, so techies found and fixed their own problem
On Call As you should, when being told the only remedy is deleting everything and starting again
Security09 Jan 2026 | 117
Iran’s internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response
Outages hit Russia and Ukraine, too
Networks09 Jan 2026 | 31
Trump spectrum sale leaves airlines with $4.5B bill for altimeter do-over
Just refreshed to avoid 5G interference? Do it again, FAA tells industry, as Upper C-band auction looms
Networks08 Jan 2026 | 31
Cloudflare pours cold water on ‘BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela’ theory
Suggests rotten routing, not evidence of a cyber-strike before kinetic action
Networks08 Jan 2026 | 14
UK's long-delayed Emergency Services Network eyes satellites for help
Direct-to-device services from low Earth orbit floated to plug coverage gaps
Public Sector05 Jan 2026 | 9
Finnish cops grill crew of ship suspected of undersea cable sabotage
EU 'closely monitoring' along with NATO as state action suspected but not confirmed
Networks02 Jan 2026 | 55
Starlink to lower orbits of thousands of satellites over safety concerns
Move will see spacecraft shift from 550 km to 480 km as collision risks rise
Networks02 Jan 2026 | 51
Satellite radio transmissions are jamming telescopes and driving astronomers batty
Interview 'What do we need to do better?' El Reg talks to comms boss about the problem
Science01 Jan 2026 | 22
IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world, but don't call it a failure
Feature The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant
Networks31 Dec 2025 | 241
Europe's cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age
Feature Countries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground
PaaS + IaaS29 Dec 2025 | 60
ZTE wins dual awards at PMI Malaysia 2025 for driving digital future with innovative management models
ZTE recognised for delivering Malaysia’s largest cloud-based 5G core network integration
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Coming Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed
Smarter access-point handoffs, better scheduling, fewer stalls
Networks26 Dec 2025 | 41
France’s post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident'
Might be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix
Public Sector23 Dec 2025 | 8
WatchGuard sounds alarm as critical Firebox flaw comes under active attack
Newly disclosed vulnerability already being abused, users urged to lock down exposed firewalls
Networks19 Dec 2025 | 14
UK prepares to wave goodbye to 3G telecoms as tri-hard tech retires
Virgin Media the last to go as users of older mobiles warned to upgrade
Networks19 Dec 2025 | 82
User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis
On Call Hey, teacher, leave that cabling alone
Networks19 Dec 2025 | 135
Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths
Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn’t escalate their concerns
Networks19 Dec 2025 | 47
China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET
Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace'
Networks19 Dec 2025 | 49
Mobile industry says energy targets are meaningless without common metrics
NGMN warns fragmented standards leave operators guessing about power use
Networks18 Dec 2025 | 3
Brit broadband grilling descends into farce over targets and definitions
MPs press minister for answers – and get few
Networks18 Dec 2025 | 41
United Nations agrees to persist with multi-stakeholder internet governance
World Summit on the Information Society resolves the world needs a permanent forum to discuss how we manage the 'Net
Public Sector18 Dec 2025 | 8
UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband
Changes to Electronic Communications Code would bypass landlord objections to fiber installations
Networks17 Dec 2025 | 49
Cisco decides its homegrown AI model is ready to power its products
Apparently you’re about to get better advice on any identity issues lurking in your infrastructure
AI + ML17 Dec 2025 | 9
ZTE and industry partners complete TAPI standard initiation, propelling AI all-optical networks into a new era
New ITU-T SG15 initiative advances multi-vendor interoperability at the SDN controller layer, accelerating open and intelligent all-optical networks
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Ofcom comes knocking after BT, Three mobile outages cut 999 access
Watchdog reviews if failures breached availability rules after downtime left millions unable to make calls
Networks16 Dec 2025 | 26
Bot invasion increases with Google scraping the way, Cloudflare says
Mobile traffic now accounts for nearly half of requests
Networks15 Dec 2025 | 4
Delay to European Central Bank messaging project cost the Bank of England £23M
Watchdog links schedule change to replanning of UK payments system overhaul
Public Sector15 Dec 2025 | 7
Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy
Minister insists 'modest' bill is not an assault on privacy-preserving tech
Networks15 Dec 2025 | 89
UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up
Atlantic Bastion combines AI systems with warships to counter increased surveillance
Networks08 Dec 2025 | 22
Kyocera claims 5.2 Gbps underwater laser data blast in lab tests
Japanese outfit aims to improve comms for aquatic drones
Networks08 Dec 2025 | 14
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work
Who, Me? Ignorance really can be bliss
On-Prem08 Dec 2025 | 47
China’s first reusable rocket explodes, but its onboard Ethernet network flew
Asia In Brief PLUS: South Korea to strengthen security standards; Canon closes Chinese printer plant; APAC datacenter capacity to triple by 2029; And more
Networks08 Dec 2025 | 19
Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance
Updated The Reg is still standing (this time) despite our best efforts
Networks05 Dec 2025 | 59
HPE's server and hybrid cloud revenue go into reverse amid historical hardware splurge
Never mind, says jolly green giant, we’re a networking-centric company now
Systems05 Dec 2025 | 2
Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job
Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions
Networks04 Dec 2025 | 57
Aisuru botnet turns Q3 into a terabit-scale stress test for the entire internet
Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks
Cyber-crime04 Dec 2025 | 21
TLS 1.3 includes welcome improvements, but still allows long-lived secrets
Systems Approach Tricky tradeoffs are hard to avoid when designing systems, but the choice not to use LLMs for some tasks is clear
Networks04 Dec 2025 | 1
HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware
IT giant touts unified management, stretched clusters, and AI-ready networking at Discover Barcelona
Virtualization03 Dec 2025 | 10
Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators
Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance
Networks02 Dec 2025 | 41
AWS and Google build a fix for multi-cloud barriers they said didn't exist
Re:invent After reassuring regulators all was well, pair debut interconnect to smooth the bumps
AWS Re:invent01 Dec 2025 | 3
Landlord quirks leave thousands of flats stuck in the broadband slow lane
Openreach pushes for legal overhaul as apartments fall through fiber rollout gaps
Networks01 Dec 2025 | 96
Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer records
Crims claim to know which customers are marked 'vulnerable'
Networks28 Nov 2025 | 15
Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down
On Call A quick squeeze of the crimper saved the day ... and a career
Networks28 Nov 2025 | 201
FCC sounds alarm after emergency tones turned into potty-mouthed radio takeover
Agency flags hijacks of insecure studio-to-transmitter gear after attackers pipe in fake alerts and vulgar audio
Cyber-crime27 Nov 2025 | 36
ICANN distances itself from radical proposal – which it funded – to give nations a role in internet governance
Africa is again at the center of strife
Networks27 Nov 2025 | 23
AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes when its notoriously flaky US East region wobbles
60-minute RTO means big outages can still happen
PaaS + IaaS27 Nov 2025 | 24
CodeRED emergency alert system CodeDEAD after INC ransomware attack
Regions across US affected, and one tore up its contract for the product
Cyber-crime26 Nov 2025 | 15
Ukraine first country in Europe to get Starlink satellite phone service
Kyivstar begins trials offering SMS connectivity when ground networks fail
Networks25 Nov 2025 | 7
Russian spy ship theories sink after Orkney blackout traced to wind farm fault
Timing of Yantar's visit sparked gossip, but engineers point to a misbehaving protection system
Offbeat25 Nov 2025 | 20
China Telecom and ZTE join forces to boost Shandong's rural revitalization via 5G-powered digital transformation
800MHz 5G breakthroughs and IoT integration drive a new model of rural digital transformation
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6G isn't even here yet but mobile industry wants triple the spectrum
Report warns of 2030s capacity crunch without expanding mid-band airwaves
Networks24 Nov 2025 | 25
Implementation of ZTE All-RAT FDD Massive MIMO AAU on the XLSMART network for investment efficiency and optimization of data and voice services in the transition toward the 5G era
Multi-generation FDD Massive MIMO trial boosts coverage, capacity, and user experience for XLSMART’s 5G evolution
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ZTE collaborates with Telkomsel to build an UE-transparent hybrid private network
Setting a new standard for digital transformation with a scalable hybrid private network for next-generation factories
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Google links Android’s Quick Share to Apple’s AirDrop, without Cupertino’s help
Relies on very loose permissions, but don’t worry – Google wrote it in Rust
Networks21 Nov 2025 | 22
ZTE's Signal Reach Program in Africa advances digital inclusion with sustainable networks in Ethiopia
Transforming remote communities with accessible, green, and inclusive mobile networks
Partner Content
Reshaping the future technology landscape with all-band AI beamforming
Vice President of ZTE explains how combining AI with M-MIMO technology is leading to multiple gains for operators
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ZTE and China Unicom Jilin enable digital inclusion through 5G uplink enhancement at world's largest ginseng market
5G uplink innovation empowers rural live-streaming commerce at the world’s largest ginseng market
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Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query
Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix
Databases19 Nov 2025 | 83
Networking startup Meter takes a page from the Steve Jobs playbook
Vertical integration meets subscriptions
Networks19 Nov 2025 | 14
Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold
Updated Outage leaves users staring at error pages while recovery crawls along
Networks18 Nov 2025 | 154
Vodafone, EE, O2, Three hit with £3B overcharging lawsuit
Case alleges loyal customers continued to pay bundled rates after minimum contract terms ended
Networks18 Nov 2025 | 30
Starlink’s method of dodging solar storms may make it slower, for longer
Researchers think SpaceX needs to revisit its resilience regime
Networks18 Nov 2025 | 19
Eurofiber admits crooks swiped data from French unit after cyberattack
Regulator reports suggest telco was extorted, but company remains coy as to whether it paid
Cyber-crime17 Nov 2025 |
Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit
Starlink challenger drops the codename, but full-blown service still years out
PaaS + IaaS14 Nov 2025 | 17
London left buffering as Hyperoptic backup link refuses to boot
Updated Broadband provider says damaged fiber and dormant failover path knocked customers offline for nearly 24 hours
Networks13 Nov 2025 | 21
Networking students need an explanation of the internet that can fit in their heads
Systems Approach Networks have changed profoundly, except for the parts that haven’t
Networks13 Nov 2025 | 54
Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents
The 100 trillion-parameter models of the near future can't be built in one place
Systems13 Nov 2025 | 28
Broadcom creates a new Seal Of Approval for servers that run AI under VMware
This apparently makes VCF more extensible and open to partners
Virtualization12 Nov 2025 | 1
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