Networks

The Reg is still standing (this time) despite our best efforts

Routine Cloudflare maintenance went awry this morning, knocking over the company's dashboard and API and sending sites around the world into error screens.…

Never mind, says jolly green giant, we’re a networking-centric company now

HPE has revealed its revenue from servers and hybrid cloud products has gone backwards but insisted that’s nothing to worry because it’s now poised to profit from its acquisition of Juniper Networks.…

Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions

If you didn't get your dream job, you might be able to blame your internet provider. Technical glitches on video calls in healthcare, job interviews, and parole hearings can affect real-world decisions, a study has found. The researchers suggest new technologies may even be making the problem worse.…

Recognition highlights ZTE’s leadership in multi-agent and AI-driven ICT solutions

Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks

The internet has spent the past three months ducking for cover as the Aisuru botnet hurled record-shattering DDoS barrages from an army of up to 4 million infected machines.…

Advancing AI-powered network innovation through global partnerships across Europe and Latin America

Tricky tradeoffs are hard to avoid when designing systems, but the choice not to use LLMs for some tasks is clear

Systems Approach  As we neared the finish line for our network security book, I received a piece of feedback from Brad Karp that my explanation of forward secrecy in the chapter on TLS (Transport Layer Security) was not quite right.…

IT giant touts unified management, stretched clusters, and AI-ready networking at Discover Barcelona

HPE is laying out its enterprise stall with enhancements to its GreenLake hybrid cloud portfolio, while converging its Aruba and Juniper networking to offer customers AIOps across both, plus high-speed connectivity for AI processing.…

Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance

Early in the history of the internet, the powers that be granted amateur radio operators over 16 million IPv4 addresses. Now a proposal has emerged suggesting the same community be granted a substantial chunk of the IPv6 numberspace.…

After reassuring regulators all was well, pair debut interconnect to smooth the bumps

Re:invent  AWS and Google Cloud are promoting a jointly developed multi-cloud connectivity service, despite recently assuring competition authorities that no technical barriers existed for customers wanting to operate across multiple clouds.…

Openreach pushes for legal overhaul as apartments fall through fiber rollout gaps

Brits living in blocks of flats or apartments risk missing out on high-speed fiber broadband due to quirks in domestic regulations that can hinder access for telco engineers.…

Crims claim to know which customers are marked 'vulnerable'

British telco Brsk is investigating claims that it was attacked by cybercriminals who made off with more than 230,000 files.…

A quick squeeze of the crimper saved the day ... and a career

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of delivering excellent tech support amid your colleagues' ambivalence, anger, and unjust admonitions.…

Integrating 5G-A private networks and nationwide multi-DNN routing for end-to-end vehicle intelligence

Agency flags hijacks of insecure studio-to-transmitter gear after attackers pipe in fake alerts and vulgar audio

Malicious intruders have hijacked US radio gear to turn emergency broadcast tones into a profanity-laced alarm system.…

Validated for robust data security, encryption, and access control across the entire service chain

Africa is again at the center of strife

ICANN has defended its decision to fund a group that proposed a radical new governance model that would give states a role in regulating the internet, and distanced itself from the group’s proposal.…

60-minute RTO means big outages can still happen

The cause of major internet outages is often the domain name system (DNS) and/or problems at Amazon Web Services’ US East region. The cloud giant has now made a change that will make its own role in such outages less painful.…

Regions across US affected, and one tore up its contract for the product

Towns and cities across the US are without access to their CodeRED emergency alert system following a cyberattack on vendor Crisis24.…

Delivering Gigabit 5G-A Connectivity and AI-Assured Experiences for High-Speed Rail Passengers

Partner Content  HSR Density Demands a New Connectivity Baseline…