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Sweden asks EU to ban Bitcoin mining because while hydroelectric power is cheap, they need it for other stuff

Lighting and warming homes in winter, or ransoming encrypted files and buying drugs? Hmmm

26 Nov 19:32 | 156

When digital transformation is the goal, network renovation isn’t good enough

Keeping secure with iomart in the second wave of SD-WAN

Systems Approach

SmartNICs, IPUs, DPUs de-hyped: Why and how cloud giants are offloading work from server CPUs

Where this technology grew from, and what it offers you

24 Nov 21:09 | 4

AWS claims 'monumental step forward' with optional IPv6-only networks

10 quintillion IP addresses per subnet but expect some pain

24 Nov 18:04 | 7

European carriers push for more OpenRAN support... but it might not end in a win

'Many appear to placing huge bets on it as a replacement for Huawei'

24 Nov 11:44 | 3

Mature networking vendor seeks flexible commitment from software suitors

Cisco’s new software license agreement means one payment can cover code and services

24 Nov 05:57 | 3

Should be easy to win the rights to .tv when you're name-checked in the contract's tech reqs – right, Afilias?

Funny how this has happened again

23 Nov 23:40 | 25

Nominet names new CEO as new chair promises real reform

But won't be looking into pay deal

19 Nov 13:40 | 11

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

The ideal sat-nav is one that stops the car, winds down the window, and asks directions

It's not quite a Jag-you-arr

19 Nov 12:40 | 161

Riverbed Technologies files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following pandemic 'headwinds'

Closure of factories, labour shortages, and continued slowdown in network optimisation sales at fault

18 Nov 19:17 | 20

UK Telecommunications Act – aka 'power to strip out Huawei' – makes it to the statute book

We bet the Chinese comms giant just LOVED that description

18 Nov 15:46 | 31

A tiny island nation has put the rights to .tv up for grabs – but what’s this? Problematic contract clauses? Again?

Could this be Dot-co The Sequel?

18 Nov 09:30 | 69

Cisco thinks you're happy to wait ages for new kit, then pay premium prices

Supply chain pain will persist deep into 2022, so it's not like you have a choice if you're in Switchzilla's world

18 Nov 07:57 | 19

Brits complained a bit less about connectivity when they were allowed to go outside and see people in the flesh

Top of Ofcom's table for broadband whinges? It rhymes with BorkBork

17 Nov 09:30 | 12

Chap who campaigned to oust Nominet's CEO and chairman and reform the .UK registry is elected as non-exec director

Fellow reformer also chosen in critical board vote that shows at least some members still want change

17 Nov 07:31 | 25

There's only one cure for passive-aggressive Space Invader bosses, and that's more passive aggression

For when a terse email just won't do

15 Nov 07:30 | 85

Boffins use nuclear radiation to send data wirelessly

Shall we call it Die-Fi? Or NoTooth? Either would be unkind, as this experiment used little radiation, but much exotic hardware

15 Nov 06:28 | 75

ZTE’s Zero Carbon energy network empowers E2E ICT infrastructure for sustainable 5G development

Transformed infrastructure promotes intelligent solar energy and lithium battery, simplified power supply, modular DCs

Workplace surveillance booming during pandemic, destroying trust in employers

At the same time, Brit MPs call for tighter regulations on AI snooping

12 Nov 16:04 | 32

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 01:57 | 25

Popular

Snapdragon Tech Summit

Qualcomm takes a swipe at Apple's build-not-buy culture (because it wants to sell stuff to Apple)

Suggests collaboration with OS suppliers is the best way to innovate, ignoring that Google just designed its own silicon for Pixel 6

What a cluster fsck: New scheduling code plus Intel's Alder Lake CPU mix equals a slower Linux kernel 5.16

Can we just postpone these changes to next year?

AWS unveils Graviton3 Arm chips and more. But the real story is the slide from IaaS to packaged solutions

CEO Adam Selipsky takes the stage in Vegas – and may be on a collision course with customers

Cisco tells UCS owners they may have a screw loose – in the server chassis

Power supplies are screwed up because they're not all screwed in

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a coding puzzle and it's a doozy

2021 Advent of Code prepares for launch

Google sued for firing staff who claim they tried to follow 'Don't be evil' motto

Civil complaint dovetails with ongoing litigation over alleged union busting

If at first Amazon doesn't let you succeed, try, try again: Warehouse workers given second chance at union vote

US watchdog tosses previous result in the trash after election fairness slammed

Snapdragon Tech Summit

Qualcomm crams more smarts into flagship mobile chip: It's the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

Do you want a smartphone to know you that well?

UK intel chief says MI6 must outsource innovation – and James Bond's in-house 'Q' is nonsense

China is on the march, Russia loves to destabilise, no intelligence agency can stop 'em without help

We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Mega-comets lurking in solar systems, spewing carbon monoxide

Comet BB is not only largest of its type that we know of, it was likely active billions of miles from the Sun

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STORIES

Netflix shows South Korea a rerun of 'We Won't Pay Your Telcos For Bandwidth'

Season Two looks like it'll be a courtroom drama

08 Nov 00:46 | 39

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 22:44 | 59

Starry starry night? No, it's just more low Earth orbit satellites as BT and OneWeb ink deal

Brit telco to test out broadband tech in UK labs before customer trials next year

05 Nov 10:26 | 31

Cisco warns 'unintentional debugging credential' left in some network switches can be abused to hijack equipment

Pair of 10/10 critical bugs demand your attention, as does a 9.8-rated SSH SNAFU

05 Nov 00:22 | 17

BT shelves efforts to find investor to share FTTP build, says Openreach can run project alone

Oh and that company-wide cost-cutting programme is 18 months ahead of schedule

04 Nov 14:30 | 26

Apple seeks geniuses to work on 6G cellular modem before it's even shipped own 5G chip

It's a good time to be a wireless communications architect or an AI engineer

04 Nov 08:04 | 35

Arista and Juniper hike prices as component lead times blow out to 80 weeks – that's May 2023

Cost of some supplies is up 200 per cent, so vendors start 'protecting margins'

04 Nov 06:29 | 7

New cable incoming! Hawaiki Nui set to connect Sydney, Singapore, and LA by 2025

Plans to hook up New Zealand's South Island and Indonesia too

03 Nov 18:01 | 5

Cisco requires COVID-19 shots for all US staff – even remote workers

Unvaxxed can vaxx off for unpaid leave during which Switchzilla can fire them or erase their jobs

03 Nov 02:23 | 267

Amazon aims to launch prototype broadband internet satellites by Q4 2022 – without Bezos' Blue Origin

Meanwhile, SpaceX already has 1,000+ orbiting Starlink birds

02 Nov 07:02 | 24

FCC officially opens its $1.9bn purse to reimburse those ripping out and replacing Huawei, ZTE kit

You've got just over a couple of months to get your compensation requests filed

01 Nov 22:23 | 10

Having made £1bn in gross savings well ahead of March 2023 deadline, more cuts could be on BT's agenda

Now exec talk turns to defence against corporate takeovers and where next for efficiency gains

01 Nov 15:15 | 13

Huawei sets out its digital transformation stall – and it’s big

Businesses rarely know how to get started. Huawei can do the heavy lifting

Did you know there is an Oculus for Business? Make that 'was' – because Facebook has canned it after two years

Now it's Quest for Business. Don't all rush at once

29 Oct 16:28 | 9

Sharing is caring, except when it's your internet connection

The SSID 'AllYouCanEatBuffetOfPr0n' might not help either

29 Oct 08:30 | 127

Systems Approach

Everything you wanted to know about modern network congestion control but were perhaps too afraid to ask

In which a little unfairness can be quite beneficial

27 Oct 08:28 | 6

DISH Wireless hooks up with Helium's decentralised 5G network via FreedomFi gear

Connecting data and rewarding people with cryptocash, if they want it

26 Oct 20:51 | 4

Cisco to face trial over trade secrets theft, NDA breach claims after losing attempt to swat Leadfactors lawsuit

Startup alleges IP wound up in Switchzilla's Quad product

26 Oct 18:13 | 12

South Korean telco goes down, blames DDoS attack, later admits its BGP broke

Good thing the government didn't crank up the national alert system or anything ... Oh no, it did

26 Oct 00:58 | 7

UK watchdog launches full probe of Motorola Solutions' cop-comms deals on Emergency Services Network

Firm working on both old programme and its replacement - CMA checks potential 'incentive' to delay

25 Oct 15:31 | 12

Orders wrong, resellers receiving wrong items? Must be a programming error and certainly not a rushing techie

Some of those punch cards may still be lying at the bottom of a lift shaft

25 Oct 07:33 | 112

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 03:58 | 47

It's 'near-impossible to escape persistent surveillance' by American ISPs, says FTC

Watchdog finds dubious data gathering, illusory solicitations for consent

22 Oct 19:52 | 22

Nobody cares about DAB radio – so let's force it onto smart speakers, suggests UK govt review

Britain's anti Amazon and Google war gets a second front

22 Oct 13:49 | 172

UK government puts £5bn on the table in trawl for public sector networks services

I dream of wires, say Whitehall’s big buyers

Huawei appears to have quenched its thirst for power in favour of more efficient 5G

Never mind the performance, man, think of the planet

21 Oct 08:36 | 1

Hitting underground pipes and cables costs the UK £2.4bn a year. We need a data platform for that, says government

Atkins wins £23m deal to build National Underground Asset Register

20 Oct 10:45 | 89

Ancient with a dash of modern: We joined the Royal Navy to find there's little new in naval navigation

Following the Fleet Navigating Officers' course

20 Oct 08:30 | 54

HPE's Aruba adopts DPUs, but in a switch, not a server

Decides switches need help performing network functions, just like servers need their CPUs free for core workloads

19 Oct 15:01 | 3

Think your phone is snooping on you? Hold my beer, says basic physics

Information wants to be free, and it's making its escape

18 Oct 09:15 | 117

What do you mean you gave the boss THAT version of the report? Oh, ing balls

Say what you mean

18 Oct 08:30 | 86

German Pirate Party member claims EU plans for a GDPR-compliant Whois v2 will lead to 'doxxing and death lists'

ICANN also dislikes it but web infrastructure firms don't really mind

15 Oct 12:32 | 47

LAN traffic can be wirelessly sniffed from cables with $30 setup, says researcher

What's a long length of electrical wire? A transmitter, of course

14 Oct 08:30 | 126

Android OS vendor variants transmit data with no opt-out

Study finds privacy gaps in Android implementations from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, and LineageOS

13 Oct 00:36 | 62

The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's make it longer next time

Zucks to lose your #HugOps

11 Oct 10:05 | 150

UK's VoIP Unlimited hit by DDoSes again, weeks after ransom-linked attacks KO'd it

Outage prompts customer ire, again

08 Oct 13:34 | 4

Microsoft Teams leaves users hanging on the telephone after PSTN integration goes wobbly

The number you have dialled has not been recognised

07 Oct 16:06 | 10

PCIe 6.0 spec just months away from completion, doubles max data transfer rate

Or will do in practical terms when devices start appearing, anyway

07 Oct 00:21 | 15

Marvell says it has samples of TSMC-made 5nm server DPUs – and 3nm is next

Octeon 10 packs Arm CPU cores, crypto and AI acceleration, and more

06 Oct 23:10 | 3

Supply chain pain: Cisco's base price structure moving north from November

Demand for components at a 10-year high

06 Oct 12:45 | 8

Facebook rendered spineless by buggy audit code that missed catastrophic network config error

Explains mega-outage with boilerplate response: We try hard, we're sorry we failed, we'll try to do better

06 Oct 02:01 | 96

Competition watchdog? We've heard of it. But emergency comms firm still on track to Airwave hello to £1.2bn

As replacement system faces delays, the incumbent reaps rewards

05 Oct 08:30 | 20

We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage

It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s just DNS. It was BGP

04 Oct 23:53 | 169

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram deplatform themselves: Services down globally

Did someone at Menlo Park flick the wrong switch?

04 Oct 17:43 | 142

Netflix sued by South Korean ISP after Squid Game fans swell traffic to '1.2Tbps'

You better cough up for all this bandwidth, says broadband biz

01 Oct 22:07 | 153

Xero, Slack suffer outages just as Let's Encrypt root cert expiry downs other websites, services

'The internet is a complex system'

30 Sep 20:53 | 23

TskTsk: UK ISP TalkTalk told off by regulator over 'misleading' adverts promising fixed price service

Don't claim 'no mid-contract price rises if that was not the case' says ASA

29 Sep 18:31 | 19

Email billing blunder meant MVNO iD Mobile told 24,000 customers to pay up or have their service suspended

Rush of subscribers trying to sort it brings network's online portal down

29 Sep 14:05 | 8

UK altnet CityFibre's boss on its hopes to capitalise on market churn as fibre broadband rolls out

Openreach out and touch a rival

29 Sep 08:30 | 21

Ofcom unveils broadband switching plans, but providers claim it's not so easy

‘One Touch Switch’ is great, but logistics are an issue for BT, while Virgin cites data protection worries

28 Sep 16:30 | 22

Typical. Crap weather halts work on subsea fibre-optic cable between UK and France

Summer was good while it lasted

28 Sep 13:30 | 23

Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou admits lying about Iran deal, gets to go home

US puts charges on ice, extradition attempt halted

25 Sep 00:20 | 87

'Nobody in their right mind would build a naval base here today': Navigating in and out of Devonport

Twisting and turning like a twisty-turny thing

24 Sep 10:49 | 54

Japanese boffins say they've created plastic optical fibres to reach places that might break glass

Polymers can transmit at 53Gbps without error correction overheads, and could be just the thing for electric cars

24 Sep 06:02 | 27

Indian broadband connections top 800 million … sort of

'Broadband' is defined as 512kbps – for now – and just 24 million current connections are wired

24 Sep 02:58 | 9

If you're not sold on the benefits of 5G, Ericsson suggests you keep an eye on gaming, home broadband

NA CEO predicts takeoff in 18 months max

24 Sep 01:35 | 18

Need US mobile data? Cellular data plan launches on the Helium Blockchain

The Great Gig in the Sky, or a new plan on GigSky?

23 Sep 16:45 | 3

BT jittery about Cellnex snapping up UK mobile tower assets

Brit telco says buyout will mean less competition, higher prices, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria

23 Sep 13:43 | 6

Systems Approach

Here's an idea: Verification for computer networks as well as chips and code

What tools are available? What are the benefits? Let's find out

23 Sep 07:28 | 8

Imagine a fiber optic cable that can sense it's about to be dug up and send a warning

Forget wiring cities with IoT devices – this could be how wide-scale sensing gets done

23 Sep 06:58 | 45

Hellfire and damnation: Two French monks charged over 5G mast arson attack

What in the blazes?

22 Sep 18:01 | 66

Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship

Meaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response

22 Sep 09:12 | 91

We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS

El Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course

21 Sep 08:29 | 122

3.4 billion people live within range of a mobile network but lack a device to make the connection

ITU and UN think inclusivity may now trump connectivity; Vodafone agrees but fancies more 4G

21 Sep 06:35 | 16

Three UK says its 5G plans are under threat if tower merger with Euro giant Cellnex is blocked

According to a filing with Brit competition watchdog

20 Sep 10:02 | 14

How long till some drunkard puts a foot through one of BT's 'iconic, digital smart city communication hubs'?

Phonebox upgrade dishes out internet and more in Kensington and Chelsea

17 Sep 15:32 | 42

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 00:22 | 39

CityFibre scores extra £1bn+ of funding to plumb in up to 8 million British homes by 2025

Ikea parent Interogo Holding among the investors

16 Sep 18:30 | 11

Myanmar junta demanded telcos activate phone interception tools – and we refused, says Telenor

Norwegian carrier insists it's quitting Asian nation to defend human rights – but the buyer it lined up is accused of shady dealings

16 Sep 07:57 | 13

India changes telco tax laws to help carriers avoid hitting the wall

Moratorium offered to ease burden of $22B debts

Huawei CEO hopes to woo foreign boffins to work on 6G in Shanghai campus that feels just like home

Staff also told to 'seize the patent position' on sixth-gen mobile networks

15 Sep 23:48 | 15

DARPA plans thousands-strong satellite constellation Space-BACN sandwich

Mmmm... BACN. Is there anything it can't do?

15 Sep 21:27 | 8

BT Wholesale wants the channel to give SMBs a nudge before copper sunset in 2025

New products launched to help shift oblivious or straggler firms over ahead of PSTN switch-off

15 Sep 15:43 | 32

Catch of the day... for Google, anyway: Transatlantic Cornwall cable hauled ashore

Grace Hopper landed

15 Sep 13:28 | 63

Beijing wants its internet to become 'civilized' by always reflecting Marxist values

Content won't be welcome if it doesn't laud the Party, strays into anything a little tawdry, or diverts from the official line

15 Sep 00:58 | 55

G7 countries outgun UK in worldwide broadband speed test

Ofcom: You know, superfast broadband is available if you'd care to take it up

14 Sep 13:01 | 50

Ignore politics of whitebox radio: Mix and match OpenRAN tech will be 10% of market in 2025, claims analyst

Critics say the post-Huawei world of telco networking increases complexity but it has legs

BT hails hollow-core fibre trials as 'critical advancement' for secure communications

Telco claims to have run Quantum Key Distribution over 6km of cable

13 Sep 16:01 | 7

We're going deeper underground: New digital project to map UK's sub-surface 'assets'

4 million holes dug in the UK each year... many in the wrong place

08 Sep 14:29 | 22

UK's NHS hands Accenture another £5m for Test and Trace system for another year

What happened to transferring £1,000-per-day consultant work to the civil service?

06 Sep 11:29 | 11

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