BT managers' union mulls options after 'derisory or non-existent pay rise
Annoyed at poor or missing salary increase offer as Brit telco pays out dividend
Networks23 May 2025 | 6
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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 | 110
'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 | 31
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
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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 | 10
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 | 47
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 | 92
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
Networks23 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
How automation can drive out downtime
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Apartment living to get worse in 5 years as 6 GHz Wi-Fi nears ‘exhaustion’
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AROS turns any PC into an Amiga with USB-bootable distro
And other ways to get that Amiga feeling on a budget
Signal shuts the blinds on Microsoft Recall with the power of DRM
Chat app blocks Windows' screenshot-happy feature from peeking at private convos
VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers
Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom
'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers
Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts
Russia expected to pass experimental law that tracks foreigners in Moscow via smartphones
4-year trial is second major initiative this year that clamps down on 'illegal immigrants'
Anthropic Claude 4 models a little more willing than before to blackmail some users
Open the pod bay door
Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts
Case in Germany could derail Zuck's plans, noyb tells El Reg fight isn't over
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Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping
A media-ready remix with KDE, codecs, and clutter from its BeOS-flavored past
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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
AI revolution driving datacenter network investment surge
Why more companies are recognizing the need to make infrastructure fit for purpose in the brave new world of AI
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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
Networks08 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
China’s FamousSparrow flies back into action, breaches US org after years off the radar
Crew also cooked up two fresh SparrowDoor backdoor variants, says ESET
Networks27 Mar 2025 | 2
Vivaldi bakes Proton VPN into browser to boost privacy
Desktop users get free access – assuming they're cool with logging in and limited speeds
Networks27 Mar 2025 | 24
UK satellite smartphone services could get green light this year
At last, cell service from SPAAAAAACE
Networks26 Mar 2025 | 29
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London's poor 5G blamed on spectrum, investment, and timing of Huawei ban
Interview Other cities either started with rival kit, or had Chinese vendor core already built before any bans, says expert
Networks25 Mar 2025 | 54
Hm, why are so many DrayTek routers stuck in a bootloop?
Time to update your firmware, if you can, to one with the security fixes, cough cough
Cyber-crime25 Mar 2025 | 58
Public-facing Kubernetes clusters at risk of takeover thanks to Ingress-Nginx flaw
How many K8s systems are sat on the internet front porch like that ... Oh, thousands, apparently
Patches25 Mar 2025 | 1
OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts
Updated Kari, are you OK, are you OK, Kari?
Networks25 Mar 2025 | 109
FCC on the prowl for Huawei and other blocked Chinese makers in America
Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting rackets
Networks24 Mar 2025 | 8
As nation-state hacking becomes 'more in your face,' are supply chains secure?
Interview Ex-US Air Force officer says companies shouldn't wait for govt mandates
CSO24 Mar 2025 | 10
Raspberry Pi Power-over-Ethernet Injector zaps life into networks lacking spark
Official PoE+ HAT+ for the Pi 5 still MIA
Networks24 Mar 2025 | 10
Capita's Northern Ireland school IT deal swells to over half a billion after Fujitsu exit
Education authority still searching for an alternative after 13 years
Public Sector24 Mar 2025 | 19
No big changes to UK broadband regs, despite no real competition for BT
Regulator reviews wholesale telecoms markets and decides healthy fiber is its biggest concern
Networks21 Mar 2025 | 35
Maximizing ROI with integrated SDN
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UK's biggest mobile operator starts 3G switchoff, hopes it won't catch out April fools
VMO2 starts in the north of England, says it's already contacted 'known vulnerable customers'
Networks20 Mar 2025 | 30
Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data
GTC Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway
Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 2
US tech jobs outlook clouded by DOGE cuts, Trump tariffs
Hiring remains relatively strong as analysts warn of slowdown
Research18 Mar 2025 | 57
AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites
SourceHut says it's getting DDoSed by LLM bots
AI + ML18 Mar 2025 | 21
Google’s broadband balloon laser comms tech floated out as independent company
Another success for the 'Moonshot factory' and an extra rival for Starlink et al
Networks18 Mar 2025 | 20
RIP Mark Klein, the engineer who exposed US domestic spying ops after wiring it up
AT&T engineer, and the Deep Throat of the network age, dies at 79
Networks15 Mar 2025 | 38
Belgian cops raid Huawei in Euro bribery probe
Chinese giant says it's 'committed' to obeying the law as arrests made
Networks14 Mar 2025 | 11
New kids on the ransomware block channel Lockbit to raid Fortinet firewalls
It's March already and you haven't patched?
Cyber-crime14 Mar 2025 |
Need cash? Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans
Yeah, yeah ... if we were all exclusively on IPv6, this wouldn't be a thing. But here we are
Networks13 Mar 2025 | 31
Expired Juniper routers find new life – as Chinese spy hubs
Fewer than 10 known victims, but Mandiant suspects others compromised, too
Cyber-crime12 Mar 2025 | 5
Britain dusts off idle spectrum for rail and emergency comms
1900 MHz band dormant since Y2K, but not available until 2029
Networks11 Mar 2025 | 50
Vodafone: Be in the office 8 days a month or lose bonuses
Exclusive Staff warned that for Q1, non-compliance = 'Disciplinary action'
Networks10 Mar 2025 | 88
HPE revenue outlook feels the thump of Trump tariffs
Thousands brace for layoffs as shares slide 20%
On-Prem07 Mar 2025 | 15
Eutelsat in talks with Euro leaders as they mull Starlink replacement in Ukraine
Increasingly shaky relationship with the States has Europe considering options
Networks07 Mar 2025 | 187
Please fasten your seatbelts. A third of US air traffic control systems are 'unsustainable'
And the FAA's modernization efforts are going so badly they won't exit turbulence any time soon
Public Sector05 Mar 2025 | 124
Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers
Not on Firefox or a Chrome derivative? You shall not pass
Software04 Mar 2025 | 68
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Altnets told to stop digging and start stuffing fiber through abandoned pipes
Why churn up roads when there's thousands of miles of disused infrastructure underfoot?
Networks03 Mar 2025 | 84
Regional Internet Registries work to prevent one of their own going rogue
APRICOT There's a lot going on at the orgs who regulate IP addresses as they revisit global governance and new leadership comes to APNIC and LACNIC
Networks02 Mar 2025 |
Membership of New Zealand’s domain registry suddenly triples, which isn't entirely welcome
Free speech org criticized constitution and made hard-to-sustain accusations of possible censorship
Networks01 Mar 2025 | 33
Non-biz Skype kicks the bucket on May 5
Microsoft confirms you have 60 days to export your data or shift to Teams
Networks28 Feb 2025 | 102
30-year-old NHS supply chain system hit by 35 major alerts in 11 months
Updated Thousands of order lines not picked, causing delays to hospital deliveries
Applications27 Feb 2025 | 29
Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl
APRICOT With a generation of networking engineers set to retire, is this how to give their successors a faster start?
Networks27 Feb 2025 | 76
FAA confirms it's testing Starlink, maybe for tasks Elon says Verizon is doing badly
Plus: Musk's biz empire reportedly pulled in $6B-plus from Uncle Sam last year
Networks27 Feb 2025 | 36
Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China's Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time
Boffins poked around inside censorship engines – here's what they found
Networks27 Feb 2025 | 38
Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you...
Arm rolls out the Cortex-A320 for small embedded gear that dreams of big-model inference
Networks26 Feb 2025 | 6
London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world
Plus: Fandroid alert – Android devices sometimes say '5G' when connecting to 4G
Networks25 Feb 2025 | 27
Maps of terrestrial fibre networks aren’t great. The Internet Society wants to fix that
APRICOT Wants regulators and carriers to adopt Open Fibre Data Standard to answer questions like ‘Is that one fibre, or nine?’
Networks24 Feb 2025 | 10
Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash
Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes
Networks21 Feb 2025 | 26
T-Mobile US puts NYC emergency services in the 5G fast lane with network slicing
Updated 911 gets VIP treatment in 'one of the most congested and demanding environments for connectivity'
Networks21 Feb 2025 | 9
ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics
It's Friday. Quit the doomscrolling. Distract yourself with IT infra news
Networks21 Feb 2025 | 6
Ghost ransomware crew continues to haunt IT depts with scarily bad infosec
FBI and CISA issue reminder - deep sigh - about the importance of patching and backups
Ransomware in Focus20 Feb 2025 | 7
A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive
Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid
On-Prem20 Feb 2025 | 12
US Army soldier linked to Snowflake extortion rampage admits breaking the law
That's the way the cookie melts
Cyber-crime20 Feb 2025 |
Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites
Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone
Networks19 Feb 2025 | 1
Mobile operators brace for bigger, faster headaches with 6G
NGMN reports what telcos want, but admits most can be delivered by 5G
Networks19 Feb 2025 | 47
SonicWall firewalls now under attack: Patch ASAP or risk intrusion via your SSL VPN
updated Roses are red, violets are blue, CVE-2024-53704 is sweet for a ransomware crew
Networks14 Feb 2025 | 9
Voda-Three name post-merger top team, keep schtum on layoffs
Union estimates up to 1,600 job on the line
Networks14 Feb 2025 | 26
HPE says blocking Juniper buy is a sure Huawei to ensure China and Cisco thrive
Analyst argues stopping the deal benefits Switchzilla by preventing rise of strong challenger for AI networks
Networks14 Feb 2025 | 9
More victims of China's Salt Typhoon crew emerge: Telcos just now hit via Cisco bugs
Networks in US and beyond compromised by Beijing's super-snoops pulling off priv-esc attacks
Networks13 Feb 2025 | 5
Mysterious Palo Alto firewall reboots? You're not alone
Limited-edition hotfix to get wider release before end of month
Networks13 Feb 2025 | 6
Cisco says it’s already dug in to protect itself – and customers – if trade war breaks out
Also reckons it can dodge DOGE
Networks13 Feb 2025 | 4
Yup, AMD's Elba and Giglio definitely sound like they work corporate security
Which is why Cisco is adding these Pensando DPUs to more switches
Networks11 Feb 2025 | 3
UK, US, Oz blast holes in LockBit's bulletproof hosting provider Zservers
Huge if true: Brit Foreign Sec says Putin running a 'corrupt mafia state'
Cyber-crime11 Feb 2025 | 41
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