Network Stories for 2018

NVIDIA 'GeForce NOW Recommended Routers' Program Helps Gamers Choose Networking Gear 126
We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites 310
SpaceX Raising $500 Million To Help Build Its 'Starlink' Satellite Broadband Network 116
T-Mobile Denies Lying To FCC About Size of Its 4G Network 31
AT&T Opens 5G Network in 12 US Cities, Announces Pricing For First 5G Mobile Device and Service 59
Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence 127
50 Years On, We're Living the Reality First Shown At the 'Mother of All Demos' 82
Instagram Tightens Eating Disorder Filters 94
Millions of Smartphones in 11 Countries Were Taken Offline Yesterday by an Expired Certificate 34
Eastern European Banks Were Attacked Via Backdoors Directly Connected To Local Networks, Report Finds 43
Mapping the Spectral Landscape of IPv6 Networks 163
Google Hangouts For Consumers Will Be Shutting Down Sometime In 2020 83
Starbucks Says It Will Start Blocking Porn On Its Stores' Wi-Fi In 2019 218
Urban Massage Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Comments On Its Creepy Clients 38
Google To Open Project Fi To iPhone, Samsung, and OnePlus 66
Germany Proposes Router Security Guidelines 62
Ajit Pai Isn't Saying Whether ISPs Deliver the Broadband Speeds You Pay For 53
US Wireless Data Prices Are Among the Most Expensive On Earth 107
Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps 135
Most ATMs Can Be Hacked in Under 20 Minutes 78
Senators Ask Four Major Carriers About Video Slowdowns 108
Many Free Mobile VPN Apps Are Based In China Or Have Chinese Ownership 67
Nigerian Firm Takes Blame For Routing Google Traffic Through China 56
Google Suffered a Brief Outage on Monday Which Pushed Some of Its Traffic Through Russia, China and Nigeria; Company Says It Will Do an Investigation 70
The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP 258
Microsoft Aims To Bring Internet To Rural Tribal Lands In Washington, Montana 53
Sprint Is Throttling Microsoft's Skype Service, Study Finds 84
US Regulator Demands Companies Take Action To Halt Robocalls 161
File-Sharing Software On State Election Servers Could Expose Them To Intruders 125
Apple's First 5G iPhone Will Arrive In 2020, Says Report 47
Nobody's Cellphone Is Really That Secure, Bruce Schneier Reminds 80
Creating the First Quantum Internet 52
China Telecom Hijacks US, Canadian Internet Traffic On a Regular Basis, Report Says 64
An ISP Left Corporate Passwords, Keys, and All Its Data Exposed On the Internet 53
Hack On 8 Adult Websites Exposes Oodles of Intimate User Data 68
Qualcomm's New Wi-Fi Chips Are Meant To Rival 5G Speeds 34
Most Americans Can't Tell the Difference Between a Social Media Bot and A Human, Study Finds 140
Former Google+ UI Designer Suggests Inept Management Played Role In Demise 133
Facebook To Ban Misinformation On Voting In Upcoming US Elections 245
Fire At AT&T Facility Causes Outage For Over a Million U-Verse Fiber Customers In Texas 54
Our Reliance on Cellphones Began 35 Years Ago This Week 123
How To See If Your Personal Data Was Stolen In the Recent Facebook Hack 36
'Why I Bid $700 For a Stolen PSN Account' 102
Google To Launch Censored Search In China Despite Denials 116
Network Middleware Still Can't Handle TLS Without Breaking Encryption 101
Apple Insiders Say Nobody Internally Knows What's Going On With Bloomberg's China Hack Story 176
New Yorkers Sue Trump and FEMA To Stop Presidential Alert 511
Seattle Police Department Is Offering An Anti-Swatting Service 106
Satellite Company Partners With Jeff Bezos' AWS To Bring Internet To 'Whole Planet' 60
Cloudflare Partners With Microsoft, Google and Others To Reduce Bandwidth Costs 43
Researchers Create 'Spray-On' 2D Antennas 42
Instagram Says It's Not Working On a Regram Feature 12
Amazon Is Making It Easier To Set Up New IoT Gadgets 48
Google Employees Discussed Tweaking Search Results To Counter Trump's Travel Ban 211
Crippling DDoS Vulnerability Put the Entire Bitcoin Market At Risk 37
Facebook Could Face EU Sanctions If It Doesn't Change Its TOS 134
CloudFlare's IPFS Gateway Makes it Easy To Create Distributed Web Sites 40
Native Support For Windows File Sharing Coming To Chrome OS 51
T-Mobile, Ericsson Sign $3.5 Billion 5G Agreement 16
FCC Says It Needs More Time To Review T-Mobile, Sprint Merger 22
About a Quarter of Rural Americans Say Access To High-Speed Internet Is a Major Problem 157
Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet's Most Successful Failure 77
AT&T Offers Unlimited Plan Deal For First Responders, But It Can Be Throttled 70
Icelanders Seek To Keep Remote Nordic Peninsula Digital-Free 71
FCC Criticized For Surrendering Power To Punish Verizon After Firefighters Got Throttled During Wildfire 161
Google, Harvard Use AI To Predict Earthquake Aftershocks 16
Justice Department Warns It Might Not Be Able To Prosecute Voting Machine Hackers 102
The Linux Foundation Is Changing The Fabric Of Networking 31
Comcast/Charter Lobby Asks FTC To Preempt State Broadband Regulations 80
The Consequences of Indecency 502
Millions of Texas Voter Records Exposed Online 79
Australia Bans Huawei, ZTE From Supplying Technology For Its 5G Network 77
Fire Department Rejects Verizon's 'Customer Support Mistake' Excuse For Throttling 251
NSA Cracked Open Encrypted Networks of Russian Airlines, Al Jazeera, and Other 'High Potential' Targets 68
Police Bodycams Can Be Hacked To Doctor Footage, Install Malware 104
Engineers Say They've Created Way To Detect Weapons Using Wi-Fi 91
Mobile Internet Goes Free, National For a Day In Cuba 87
Verizon Nears 5G Launch Deals With Apple and Google: Bloomberg 32
Malicious Faxes Leave Firms 'Open' To Cyber-Attack 77
Reddit Blocked In China 68
FCC Proposes To Maintain US Broadband Standard of 25Mbps Down, 3Mbps Up 194
YouTube Will Soon Pass Facebook As Second Biggest Website In US 65
Comcast Security Flaw Exposes Partial Addresses, Social Security Numbers of 26 Million Users 67
Verizon 'Grossly Overstated' Its 4G LTE Coverage In Government Filings, Trade Group Says 81
BBC Wants Microsoft To Expose 'Doctor Who' Leaker 219
ISPs' Listed Speeds Drop Up To 41 Percent After UK Requires Accurate Advertising 68
Security Researchers Express Concerns Over Mozilla's New DNS Resolution For Firefox 301
FCC Sides With Google Fiber Over Comcast With New Pro-Competition Rule 134
Original Star Wars Movies May Not Launch With Disney's Streaming Service Until 2024 65
How AT&T and Verizon Rip Off DSL Customers 217
Motorola Launches Verizon-Exclusive Moto Z3 Smartphone, 5G Moto Mod 52
3D-Printed Deep Learning Neural Network Uses Light Instead of Electrons 76
Comcast, Charter Dominate US; Telcos 'Abandoned Rural America,' Report Says 154
T-Mobile, Nokia Reach $3.5 Billion Agreement To Build Nationwide 5G Network 40
Should Bots Be Required To Tell You That They're Not Human? 92
New York Threatens To Kick Charter Out of State After Broadband Failures 83
Qualcomm Unveils First mmWave 5G Antennas For Smartphones 45
Apple's iPhones Trail Samsung, Google Devices in Internet Speeds 75
Social Media Manipulation Rising Globally, New Oxford Report Warns 99
FCC Opens Public Comments On T-Mobile-Sprint Merger 43
Chinese Hackers Targeted IoT During Trump-Putin Summit 82
Senate Wants Netflix, Spotify To Send Out Federal Emergency Alerts 107
Amazon Web Services Isn't Making a 'Commercial' Networking Switch, Cisco Says 51
Walmart Teams Up With Microsoft To Fight Amazon, Netflix 75
Verizon Confirms That It Will No Longer Activate 3G Phones 109
EFF To Japan: Reject Website Blocking 41
Researchers Find That Filters Don't Prevent Porn 126
Amazon Plans To Challenge Cisco in Networking Market With Much Cheaper Switches, Report Says 126
Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality 579
Nearly 1,000 Paintings/Drawings By Vincent Van Gogh Now Digitized, Released Online 40
How Fracking Companies Use Facebook Surveillance To Ban Protest 141
Twitter Suspended 70 Million Accounts In Past Two Months, Says Report 79
Kenya To Use Alphabet's Balloons For Rural Internet 38
The BBC Is Heading To Court To Hunt Down a Doctor Who Leaker 158
Facebook Apologizes For Bug That Unblocked 800,000 People 66
Facebook Acknowledges It Shared User Data With Dozens of Companies 59
Twitter Will Show Who Pays For Ads and How Much They Spend 111
AT&T Has To Pay Up Millions After Two Major 911 Outages Last Year 37
Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites In Search Results 80
EFF Sues To Invalidate FOSTA, An Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law 89
Bill To Save Net Neutrality Is 46 Votes Short In US House 213
AT&T Is Screwing Customers By Almost Tripling a Bogus Fee 149
Blogger Stabbed To Death After Internet Abuse Seminar 449
California Lawmakers Advance Last-Minute Data Privacy Bill 32
Venezuela Is Blocking Access To the Tor Network 186
Facebook Reverses Its Crypto Ad Ban 28
'Have I Been Pwned' Is Being Integrated Into Firefox, 1Password 111
China Will Partly Lift Internet Censorship For One of Its Provinces To Promote Tourism 44
How Twitter Made the Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback 128
Algeria Shuts Off Entire Country's Internet To Stop Students From Cheating 123
Facebook Will Harass You Mercilessly If You Try To Break Up 236
Democrat With Financial Ties To AT&T Guts California's Net Neutrality Law 266
Google, Roku, Sonos To Fix DNS Rebinding Attack Vector 56
GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository 707
Kickstarter Bets On 'Wired' Arduino-Compatible IoT Platform 138
Android Messages Will Now Let You Send Texts From Your Computer 107
Guy Robs Someone At Gunpoint For Domain Name, Gets 20 Years In Jail 134
'Netflix and Alphabet Will Need To Become ISPs, Fast' 328
The Internet Is Finally Going To Be Bigger Than TV Worldwide 60
'Pirates' Tend To Be the Biggest Buyers of Legal Content, Study Shows 108
Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access To Data On Users and Friends 32
Snapchat's CEO On Facebook's Long History of Copying His Company's Products 17
German Spy Agency Can Keep Tabs On Internet Hubs, Federal Court Rules 54
Ticketfly Temporarily Shuts Down To Investigate 'Cyber Incident' 26
America's Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook 78
AT&T Wants To Settle With FTC To Avoid Unlimited Data Throttling Lawsuit 35
California Senate Votes To Restore Net Neutrality 116
Lawyers Are Sending Mobile Ads To Patients Sitting In Emergency Rooms 74
People Are Using Venmo To Spy On Cheating Spouses 102
There Are Real Reasons For Linux To Replace ifconfig, netstat and Other Classic Tools 478
All Major ISPs Have Declined In Customer Satisfaction, Says Study 85
Pornhub Launches VPNhub, Its Own Virtual Private Network App 68
Comcast Website Bug Leaks Xfinity Customer Data 43
Should T-Mobile Stop Claiming It Has 'Best Unlimited Network'? 55
Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? 386
Comcast Charges $90 Install Fee At Homes That Already Have Comcast Installed 141
Facebook Faulted By Judge For 'Troubling Theme' In Privacy Case 62
Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client? 406
Encrypted Email Has a Major, Divisive Flaw 116
Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi EasyMesh Certification Aims To Standardize Mesh Networks 39
The Tech Used To Monitor Inmate Calls Is Able To Track Civilians Too 35
YouTube Rolls Out New Tools To Help You Stop Watching 26
Equifax's Data Breach By the Numbers: 146 Million Social Security Numbers, 99 Million Addresses, and More 69
Connected Cars Don't Necessarily Disconnect Previous Owners When Resold 111
Facebook Survey Suggests Continuing US Loyalty After Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal 103
Chinese Government Is Behind a Decade of Hacks On Software Companies, Says Report 81
Vulnerabilities Affecting Over One Million Dasan GPON Routers Are Now Under Attack 27
Forty Years of Spam Email 95
Amazon Tells Signal's Creators To Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool 99
Amazon Web Services Starts Blocking Domain-Fronting 27
Will the T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Be Bad For Consumers? 130
Chinese Government Admits Collection of Deleted WeChat Messages 39
Comcast Won't Give New Speed Boost To Internet Users Who Don't Buy TV Service 264
On This Day 25 Years Ago, the Web Became Public Domain 87
100 US Mayors Sign Pledge To Defend Net Neutrality Against Crooked ISPs 91
Sprint, T-Mobile Aiming To Reach Merger Deal Next Week 79
Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line 189
Facebook Inches Toward More Transparency and Accountability 32
Mosaic, the First HTML Browser That Could Display Images Alongside Text, Turns 25 132
Net Neutrality Is Over Monday, But Experts Say ISPs Will Wait To Screw Us 243
Pornhub Hasn't Been Actively Enforcing Its Deepfake Ban 97
AT&T, Verizon Under US Investigation For Collusion To Lock In Customers 39
Cloudflare: FOSTA Was a 'Very Bad Bill' That's Left the Internet's Infrastructure Hanging 192
German Supreme Court Rules Ad Blockers Legal 134
Google Is Shuttering Domain Fronting, Creating a Big Problem For Anti-Censorship Tools 59
'Login With Facebook' Data Hijacked By JavaScript Trackers 91
Former FCC Broadband Panel Chair Arrested For Fraud 106
Facebook Admits To Tracking Users, Non-Users Off-Site 147
MPAA Silently Shut Down Its Legal Movies Search Engine 63
19-Year-Old Archivist Charged For Downloading Freedom-of-Information Releases 422
Planet Fitness Evacuated After WiFi Network Named 'Remote Detonator' Causes Scare 168
California Bill Would Restore, Strengthen Net Neutrality Protections 83
US Bans American Companies From Selling To Chinese Electronics Maker ZTE 74
Nearly 1 In 10 Americans Have Deleted Their Facebook Account Over Privacy Concerns, Survey Claims 172
Cyber-Espionage Groups Are Increasingly Leveraging Routers in Their Attacks 22
Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting 257
Facebook Data Collected By Quiz App Included Private Messages 30
Twitter Says It Will Comply With Honest Ads Act To Combat Russia Social Media Meddling 47
Oregon Becomes Second State To Pass a Net Neutrality Law 91
Google Seeks To Limit 'Right To Be Forgotten' By Claiming It's Journalistic 203
Comcast, AT&T, Verizon Pose a Greater Surveillance Risk Than Facebook 65
1.1.1.1: Cloudflare's New DNS Attracting 'Gigabits Per Second' of Rubbish 136
CenturyLink Fights Billing-Fraud Lawsuit By Claiming That It Has No Customers 198
YouTube Shooter 'Nasim Aghdam' Reportedly Had Website With Manifesto That Targeted YouTube For Censorship, Demonetization 722
Facebook CEO Says Not Planning To Extend European Privacy Law Globally 84
Half of European Flights Delayed Due To System Failure 12
Instagram Suddenly Chokes Off Developers As Facebook Chases Privacy 61
Cloudflare Launches 1.1.1.1 Consumer DNS Service With a Focus On Privacy 225
Google Is Shutting Down Its Goo.gl URL Shortening Service 154
AI Predicts Your Lifespan Using Activity Tracking Apps 48
Facebook Employees In An Uproar Over Executive's Leaked Memo 142
Ajit Pai Faces Heat Over Proposal To Take Away Poor People's Broadband Plans 196
Instagram Reenables GIF Sharing After GIPHY Promises No More Racism 87
Google Removes 'Kodi' From Search Autocomplete In Anti-Piracy Effort 117
Comcast Supports Ban On Paid Prioritization, Except For 'Specialized Services' 61
Tumblr Takes Down 84 Russia-Linked Accounts 118
Sex Workers Say Porn On Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing 356
New York Councilman Proposes Bill That Would Grant NYC Workers 'Right To Disconnect' 94
Firefox In 2018: We'll Tackle Bad Ads, Breach Alerts, Autoplay Video, Says Mozilla 84
Man Starts 'Gunbook' Social Media Site After His Gun-Loving Friends Were Kicked Off Facebook 532
FCC's New 5G Rules Favor Fast Setup Over Federal Reviews 53
Instagram Will Show More Recent Posts Due To Algorithm Backlash 29
Reddit Bans Subreddits Related To Selling Guns, Drugs, Sex, and More 277
Mark Zuckerberg Apologizes For the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Says He Isn't Opposed To Regulation 180
Orbitz Says Legacy Travel Site Likely Hacked, Affecting 880,000 Credit Cards 29
Bali Plans To Switch Off Internet Services For 24 Hours For New Year 'Quiet Reflection' 150
Verizon Will Fix Broadband Networks, Landlines To Resolve Investigation 74
Oculus Rift Headsets Are Offline Following a Software Error 111
Frequency Deviations In Continental Europe Are Causing Electric Clocks To Run Behind By 5 Minutes 251
GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded 144
Australia Considers Making It Illegal For ISPs To Advertise Inflated Speeds 70
YouTube's New Moderators Mistakenly Pull Right-Wing Channels 277
Germany Says Government Network Was Breached 30
US House Passes Bill To Penalize Websites For Sex Trafficking 190
Nokia, Vodafone To Bring 4G To the Moon 80
Net Neutrality Repeal Will Get a Senate Vote In the Spring, Democrats Say 127
Qualcomm's Simulated 5G Tests Shows How Fast Real-world Speeds Could Actually Be 61
Scientists Say Space Aliens Could Hack Our Planet 293
NRA Gives Ajit Pai 'Courage Award' and Gun For 'Saving the Internet' 563
23 Attorneys General Refile Challenge To FCC Net Neutrality Repeal 41
Game Industry Pushes Back Against Efforts To Restore Gameplay Servers 246
Snapchat Responds To Change.Org Petition Complaining About the App's Redesign 36
FCC To Officially Rescind Net Neutrality Rules On Thursday 124
Salon Magazine Mines Monero On Your Computer If You Use an Ad Blocker 314
Judge Won't Let FCC's Net Neutrality Repeal Stop Lawsuit Alleging Charter Throttled Netflix 33
Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement 149
119,000 Passports, Photo IDs of FedEx Customers Found On Unsecured Amazon Server 34
France's Telecom Regulator Thinks Net Neutrality Should Also Apply To Devices 38
SpaceX Hits Two Milestones In Plan For Low-Latency Satellite Broadband 82
Tickbox Must Remove Pirate Streaming Add-ons From Sold Devices 70

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