Wireless Networking Stories

Feds Finally Decide To Do Something About Years-Old SS7 Spy Holes In Phone Networks 32
Researchers Unlock Fiber Optic Connection 1.2 Million Times Faster Than Broadband 49
'Smart Devices Are Turning Out To Be a Poor Investment' 155
SpaceX Gets E-Band Radio Waves To Boost Starlink Broadband 26
Google's Newest Office Has AI Designers Toiling In a Wi-Fi Desert 85
MIT Researchers Build Tiny Tamper-Proof ID Tag Utilizing Terahertz Waves 42
Wi-Fi Jamming To Knock Out Cameras Suspected In Nine Minnesota Burglaries 174
The US Government Makes a $42 Million Bet On Open Cell Networks 26
Ask Slashdot: Can You Roll Your Own Home Router? 150
LG Washing Machine Found Sending 3.7 GB of Data a Day 130
Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement 35
AirDrop 'Cracked' By Chinese Authorities To Identify Senders 25
Samsung Debuts World's First Transparent MicroLED Screen Is At CES 2024 30
Wi-Fi 7 is Ready To Go Mainstream 28
Mexican Cartel Provided Wi-Fi To Locals - With Threat of Death If They Didn't Use It 97
Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry's New Priority: Stability 45
Wireless TVs Use Built-In Cameras, NFC Readers To Sell You Stuff You See On TV 98
Researchers Develop World's First Antenna For Ultra-Secure 6G 48
Michigan Installs First Wireless EV Charging Road In US 97
Thousands of Routers and Cameras Vulnerable To New 0-Day Attacks By Hostile Botnet 18
Qi2 Wireless Charging Spec Is Here, Offering Speed Boosts and Magnets 37
Chamberlain Shuts Off Access To MyQ's APIs, Breaking Smart Home Integrations 146
Optus Outage Leaves Millions of Australians Without Mobile and Internet Services 59
Millions of Smart Meters Will Be Defunct When 2G and 3G Turns Off 137
Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband 88
Caltech Ends Its Wi-Fi Lawsuit Against Apple and Broadcom 29
Amazon's Eero Max 7 Mesh Router Adds Wi-Fi 7 - For a Whopping $600 30
Why Apple Put a Thread Radio In the iPhone 15 Pro 56
Wireless Carriers Are Messing With Your Autopay Discount 60
Dolby Atmos' Upcoming FlexConnect May Simplify Wireless Home Theater Audio 22
Microsoft Now Offers Xbox Wireless Controller Replacement Parts For DIY Repairs 28
Li-Fi, Light-Based Networking Standard Released 87
US Ranks 32nd Worldwide On Broadband Affordability, Study Finds 57
The 5G Threats To Airplanes Quietly Recedes 39
NFC Payments Are About To Become Faster, Easier, and Truly Contactless 25
ASUS Urges Customers To Patch Critical Router Vulnerabilities 25
A San Francisco Library Is Turning Off Wi-Fi At Night To Keep People Without Housing From Using It 251
Linux Foundation Announces Collaboration for 'Open Radio Access Network' Prototypes 20
Apple TV To Support VPN Apps On tvOS 17 15
Hubble Network Wants To Connect a Billion Devices With Space-Based Bluetooth Network 60
Malware Turns Home Routers Into Proxies For Chinese State-Sponsored Hackers 28
As Wireless Carriers 'Rip and Replace' Chinese-Made Telecom Equipment, Who Pays? 82
Bluetooth Tags For Android's 3 Billion-Strong Tracking Network Are Here 23
Are Public Wifi and Phone Chargers Actually Safe? 85
Tokyo Has 20x As Much Wi-Fi As It Needs 39
Google Fi Gets Third Rebrand In 8 Years 33
FSF Awards 'Respects Your Freedom' Certification to ThinkPenguin's Gigabit Mini VPN Router 6
Wireless ISP Starry Is Filing For Bankruptcy 8
A Welsh Brand of McDonald's Plays Classical Music, Rations Wi-Fi To Deter Anti-Social Behavior 66
Frontier's Bringing Its 5-Gig Fiber Network Across the Country 61
Google's Stadia Controller Is Getting Bluetooth Support 18
Apple Is Reportedly Making An All-In-One Cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Chip 36
Wireless Power Consortium Works With Apple On Next-Gen 'Qi2' Standard Based On MagSafe 26
NetGear Warns Users To Patch Recently Fixed Wi-Fi Router Bug 7
Delta To Make Its In-Flight Wi-Fi Free 52
Only a Quarter of US iPhones Are Sold Through Apple 31
More Than 1 Billion People Expected To Be Using 5G By Year's End 55
EU Allows Smartphones During Flights 68
Why Is My Cat Using Baidu? And Other IoT DNS Oddities 49
Comcast's New Higher Upload Speeds Require $25-Per-Month xFi Complete Add-On 38
Lufthansa Changes Mind, Now Says Apple AirTags Are Allowed on Luggage 19
How Wi-Fi Spy Drones Snooped On Financial Firm 52
Android Leaks Some Traffic Even When 'Always-On VPN' Is Enabled 30
Lufthansa Says Passengers Can't Use Apple AirTags to Track Checked Bags 72
Matter Smart Home Standard Officially Launches 78
Stadia Controllers Could Become E-Waste Unless Google Issues Bluetooth Update 51
Google Fiber Touts 20Gbps Download Speed In Test, Promises Eventual 100Gbps 56
Advocacy Group Asks FCC To Probe Efficacy of Wireless Industry's Voluntary Phone Unlocking Commitments 24
SmartDry's Useful Laundry Sensor To Be Cloud-Bricked Next Month 146
Chattanooga, Tennessee offers America's First Community-Wide 25 Gig Internet Service 28
Court Upholds FCC's Decision To Reallocate Part of 5.9 GHz Band For Unlicensed Use, Including Wi-Fi 18
Meta's Flailing Portal Repurposed As a Wireless Portable Monitor 15
Intel To Introduce Wi-Fi 7 In 2024 As Apple Plans Imminent Move To Wi-Fi 6E 50
Chromebooks With Mobile Data To Act As Wi-Fi Hotspots 15
Verizon, AT&T Agree to Delay Some 5G Rollouts Near Airports 21
Canon Wireless Printers Are Getting Stuck In Reboot Loops 85
New Bluetooth Hack Can Unlock All Kinds of Devices 123
Google Explains Why It's All In On Matter, the First True Smart Home Standard 66
Wi-Fi 7 Home Mesh Routers Poised To Hit 33Gbps 58
Nigeria Blocks 73 Million Mobile Phones in Security Clampdown 16
California Net Neutrality Law To Remain Intact After Appeals Court Says It Won't Reconsider Earlier Decision 36
Delta Confirms It Worked With SpaceX To Trial Starlink's Satellite Internet 25
Ukraine War Stokes Concerns in Taiwan Over Its Fragile Internet Links 48
Black Market SIM Cards Turned a Zimbabwean Border Town Into a Remote Work Hub 11
Four Indigenous People Killed In 'Clash' With Venezuelan Military Over Wi-Fi 18
T-Mobile Begins Shutdown of Sprint 3G Network 5
Router and Modem Rental Fees Still a Major Annoyance Despite New US Law 34
Meta Says Its Metaverse Ambitions Won't Be Possible Without Better Cellular Networks 43
First US Mile of Wireless EV Charging Road Coming To Detroit 145
FAA Estimates 78% of US Planes Can Now Land At Airports With 5G C-Band 59
How Europe Rolled Out 5G Without Hurting Aviation 120
Chromebook 'Nearby Share' to Get 'Self Share' to Send Files to Our Own Devices 14
Raspberry Pi Can Detect Malware By Scanning For Electromagnetic Waves 14
FAA Agrees Not To Seek Any More 5G Delays From AT&T and Verizon 19
Samsung's New TV Remote Uses Radio Waves From Your Router To Stay Charged 65
AT&T and Verizon Reject US Govt's Request to Delay New 5G Services 84
US Government Requests Two-Week Delay for 5G Deployment, Citing Aviation Safety 36
Federal Court Ruling Will Make Wifi 6E a Reality 52
5G Speeds In the US Rank Dead Last Among Early Adopters 77
Boeing, Airbus Executives Urge Delay in US 5G Wireless Deployment 82
Google OnHub Router Support Ending In 2022 29
Security Flaws Found in a Popular Guest Wi-Fi System Used in Hundreds of Hotels 25
Anti-5G Necklaces Found To Be Radioactive 80
US Airlines Warn 5G Wireless Could Cause Havoc With Flights 89
Nine WiFi Routers Used by Millions Were Vulnerable to 226 Flaws 74
Comcast Reduced 'Working Latency' By 90% with AQM. Is This the Future? 119
US Rollout of 5G Frequencies Delayed Over Aviation Safety Concerns. Are They Warranted? 31
What Happens When You Use Bluetooth Tags to Track Your Stolen Items? 166
New FCC Rules Could Force Wireless Carriers To Block Spam Texts 45
Elon Musk Says Starlink Will Provide Faster Internet Speeds On Airlines 53
Activists Are Designing Mesh Networks To Deploy During Civil Unrest 59
Ring Puts An Eero Router Inside Its New Home Alarm System 28
How AT&T's Tethered Drones Can Become Temporary Cellular Towers 49
Qualcomm Debuts Lossless Bluetooth Audio Streaming With aptX Lossless 96
New Technology Delivers Power To Electronic Devices in a Test Space 41
2G and 3G Networks Are Shutting Down. Should You Consider 5G For IoT? 74
'No Service' Bug Hits Some IOS 14.7.1 Users After Updating Their IPhones 26
Will Google's Tensor Chip Spell Trouble for 5G? 140
Google Drops Bluetooth Titan Security Keys In Favor of NFC Versions 19
How a Security Researcher Took Over a Hotel's IoT Devices 36
Chinese Hackers Used Mesh of Home Routers To Disguise Attacks 25
Amazon's Older Kindles Will Start To Lose Their Internet Access In December 122
More Cellphone Data Use Is Negatively Affecting Wi-Fi Performance, Study Finds 46
Carrier Caught Injecting 'SMS AD' Into Google Verification Code Message 63
United's Latest Jets Will Offer Bluetooth For In-Flight Entertainment 117
London Underground To Gain Full Mobile Phone Coverage By 2024 42
Samsung Will Shut Down the v1 SmartThings Hub This Month 86
Weak Wi-Fi Password May Have Led UK Police to Bust an Innocent Couple 109
NBN Replaces 10,000 Modems After Lightning 'Fries' Devices Across Blue Mountains 72
Alexa/Echo Owners Become Part of Amazon's Massive 'Sidewalk' Mesh Network By Default 168
Researchers Have Developed a Way To Wirelessly Charge Vehicles On the Road 146
Tech Industry Quietly Patches FragAttacks Wi-Fi Flaws That Leak Data, Weaken Security 37
Can Apple's AirTags Be Used to Track Another Person? 38
The FSF Says ThinkPenguin's Wireless-N Mini Router 'Respects Your Freedom' 36
Scientists Connect Human Brain To Computer Wirelessly For First Time Ever 18
Broadband Use Surged More Than 30% During Pandemic 13
'Rectenna' Harvests Electromagnetic Energy From 5G Signals 127
SpaceX Starlink Factory In Texas Will Speed Up Production of Dishy McFlatface 88
Verizon Support Recommends Turning Off 5G to Conserve Battery Life 94
Ban on Wireless Modems In Voting Machines Should be Optional, Suggests US Election Agency 147
AT&T Customer Since 1960 Buys WSJ Print Ad To Complain of Slow Speeds 161
D-Link Made a USB Adapter that Adds Wi-Fi 6 To Your Laptop 38
Wi-Fi's Biggest Upgrade in Decades is Starting To Arrive 104
Law Banning 'Rental' Fees For Customer-Owned Routers Takes Effect Sunday 39
Norman Abramson, Pioneer Behind Wireless Networks, Dies At 88 7
India Cabinet Approves Setting Up a 'Massive Network' of Public Wi-Fi Hotspots 16
Raspberry Pi Used To Hack Tesla Model X SUV Key Fob 43
US Congress Passes an IoT Security Bill 'That Doesn't Totally Suck' 80
FCC Takes Spectrum From Auto Industry In Plan To 'Supersize' Wi-Fi 49
In Rural 'Dead Zones,' School Comes On a Flash Drive 92
Alphabet Project Uses Light Beams To Bring Broadband To Remote Regions 50
Panasonic Makes Vacuum Gadget To Rescue Wireless Earbuds From Train Tracks 60
NASA Funds Nokia Plan To Provide Cellular Service On Moon 65
America's FBI Warns of Security Risks in Using Hotel Wi-Fi 88
Five Bar and Cafe Owners Arrested in France For Running No-Log WiFi Networks 178
Amazon Brings Eero Mesh Wi-Fi To ISPs 28
T-Mobile Amassed 'Unprecedented Concentration of Spectrum,' AT&T Complains 54
French President Emmanuel Macron Compares 5G Opponents To Amish 147
New Google Fiber Plan: $100 For 2Gbps, Plus Wi-Fi 6 Router and Mesh Extender 36
Verizon Acquires Tracfone In a Deal Worth More Than $6 Billion 19
Apple, Amazon, Google, and Zigbee Alliance Standard For Smart Home Tech On Track For 2021 Release 69
AT&T's Current 5G Is Slower Than 4G In Nearly Every City Tested By PCMag 47
Qualcomm Doubles 5G mmWave Range To 2.36 Miles For Broadband Modems 15
Smart Dust Is Coming. Are You Ready? 101
5G In US Averages 51Mbps While Other Countries Hit Hundreds of Megabits 102
'5G Just Got Weird' 132
Researchers Build a Low-Power Radar on a CMOS ChIp 35
Over 100 Wi-Fi Routers Fail Major Security Test -- Protect Yourself Now 102
Dish Buys Prepaid Carrier Boost Mobile For $1.4 Billion 4
Android's AirDrop Competitor Is Coming Soon 28
5G Obliterates Your Phone Battery, But a Power-Saving Fix Is Coming 66
A $350 'Anti-5G' Device Is Just a 128MB USB Stick, Teardown Finds 198
New 'Spectra' Attack Breaks the Separation Between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 8
T-Mobile Connecting Heroes Now Live, First Responders Get Free 5G Service 18
Cell-Tower Attacks By Idiots Who Claim 5G Spreads COVID-19 Reportedly Hit US 240
MIT Develops a Way To Use Wireless Signals From In-Home Appliances To Better Understand Your Health 16
Comcast Resists Call To Open Home Wi-Fi Hotspots, Cites Potential Congestion 99
The Average Household Will Surpass ISP's 1TB Data Caps Within 3 Years, Study Finds 139
AT&T Gave FCC False Broadband-Coverage Data In Parts of 20 States 28
FCC To Approve 5G Network Despite Military Saying It Will Harm GPS 56
School District Deploys Over 100 School Buses Equipped With Wi-Fi For Students Without Internet Access 27
6GHz Wi-Fi Access Could Boost Speeds and Generate $183 Billion By 2025, Study Says 59
Verizon Is Cancelling Home Internet Installations During the Pandemic 28
Broadband Engineers Threatened Due To 5G Coronavirus Conspiracies 92
FCC To Vote On Adding 6Ghz Band To Wi-Fi 6 To Improve Speeds 39
California Governor Says 'We Need More Googles' As Company Offers Free Wi-Fi and Chromebooks To Students 120
Elon Musk: Starlink Latency Will Be Good Enough For Competitive Gaming 113
Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open To Eavesdropping 33
Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder Goes Offline For a Week, Can't Answer Customers At All 102
Driver Stranded After Connected Rental Car Can't Call Home 311
Google Ends Its Free Wi-Fi Program, Station 10
A Radio Frequency Exposure Test Finds an iPhone 11 Pro Exceeds the FCC's Limit 76
Broadcom Announces BCM4389 Wi-Fi 6E Client Chipset 13
One of the Most Destructive Botnets Can Now Spread To Nearby Wi-Fi Networks 28
Researchers Find Some LoRaWAN Networks Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks 6
Public Wi-Fi is a Lot Safer Than You Think 80
Some Vendors Are Already Releasing Chipsets That Support 6 GHz Wifi 39
Smart Scale Goes Dumb As Under Armour Pulls the Plug On Connected Tech 133
Bruce Schneier on 5G Security 33
Verizon Will Finally Sell You TV Without a Contract 44
Bluetooth Will Support Hearing Aids, Sharing, and a Better Audio Codec 84
The Biggest Problems With Bluetooth Audio Are About To Be Fixed 91
Apple Has Secret Team Working on Satellites To Beam Data To Devices 46
FCC Funds 25Mbps, Data-Capped Satellite In Rural Areas 53
America's FCC Votes Unanimously To Divide 'Safety Spectrum' Into Wifi and Auto Applications 64
AT&T and Verizon Agree To Change Their eSIM Practices 15
Ahead of Merger, T-Mobile Announces Its Cheapest Phone Plan Ever and 5G Coming December 6th 37
Amazon Ring Doorbells Exposed Home Wi-Fi Passwords To Hackers 25
SpaceX Plans To Start Offering Starlink Broadband Services In 2020 125
Verizon's 5G Network Can Only Cover 'Certain Seating Areas' In a Basketball Stadium 66
Unpatched Linux Bug May Open Devices To Serious Attacks Over Wi-Fi 21
Carriers Want To Hide Detailed 5G Maps From FCC and Public 40
Microsoft Plans To Bring Internet Access To 40 Million People By 2022 32
D-Link Home Routers Open To Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched 92
Did MacOS Stop Allowing Changes to Wifi MAC Addresses? 118
Did a Poker Pro Use RFID Tags To Cheat? 158
Iraq Shuts Down Internet Access As Mass Protests Turn Violent 55
Woman Who Sleeps In $500 EMF-Blocking Sack Wants Area-Wide Wi-Fi Limits 301
Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables That Hack You Will Be Mass Produced and Sold 57
Both Apple and Amazon Are Quietly Building Networks That Know the Location of Everything 32
The Heat Death of 5G 92
Amazon Sidewalk Is a New Long-Range Wireless Network For Your IoT Devices 46
Faster Wi-Fi Officially Launches Today 30
iPhone 11 Lineup Said To Include Two-Way Charging Hardware, But Software Disabled 16
Wi-Fi 6 Will Upgrade Your Workhorse Wireless Network 66
The Truth About Faster Internet: It's Not Worth It 253
Fearing Data Privacy Issues, Google Cuts Some Android Phone Data For Wireless Carriers 24
Slashdot Asks: Do You Use Your Laptop's Headphone Jack? 283
New Vulnerabilities Found In WPA3 WiFi Standard 58
82% of People Say They Connect To Any Free WiFi That's Available in a Public Place, Survey Finds 123
iPhone Bluetooth Traffic Leaks Phone Numbers -- in Certain Scenarios 51
Apple's AWDL Protocol Plagued By Flaws That Enable Tracking and MitM Attacks 56
T-Mobile Wins $26.5B Sprint Deal Approval With Plan To Create Rival 40
Mozilla Debuts Implementation of WebThings Gateway Open Source Router Firmware 57
From Fitbits To Rokus, Hedge Funds Mine Data For Consumer Habits 60
Huawei Secretly Helped Build North Korea's Wireless Network, Leaked Documents Suggest 83
Bluetooth Exploit Can Track and Identify iOS, Microsoft Mobile Device Users 24
'Never Commit a Crime When Your Phone Is Connected to a Wi-Fi Network' 132
Hong Kong's Protesters Use AirDrop To Spread Information To Mainland Chinese Visitors 85
Frontier Refuses To Waive Router Rental Fee For Customer Who Brought His Own 254
A DIY Internet Network In NYC Now Covers Large Parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn 109
Philips Hue Company Announces Lights That Beam Data At 250 Mbps 41
Retail Stores Use Bluetooth Beacons To Track Customers 47
In Stores, Secret Surveillance Tracks Your Every Move 173
Cringely Predicts The End Of Broadcast TV Within A Decade 171
Teen Makes His Own AirPods For $4 123
Huawei Has Now Been Cut Off By the SD Association, Wi-Fi Alliance 276
5G Could Mean Less Time To Flee a Deadly Hurricane, Heads of NASA and NOAA Warn 153
Russia's Anti-5G Propaganda Campaign Is Spreading Across Social Media 137
Verizon's 5G Network Is Now Hitting Gigabit Download Speeds 88

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