Network Stories for 2019

How Amazon Sacrifices Safety For Speed For Its Delivery Network 65
Russia 'Successfully Tests' Its Unplugged Internet 41
New York Governor Promises Net Neutrality Legislation In 2020 21
Severed Fiber Optic Cables Disrupted Internet Access In Parts of Eastern Europe, Iran and Turkey 44
Africa's Internet Management Body Mired Again by Corruption Allegations 25
FCC Funds 25Mbps, Data-Capped Satellite In Rural Areas 53
India Shuts Down Internet Once Again, This Time In Assam and Meghalaya 66
AT&T Drops Out of FCC Speed-Test Program So It Can Hide Bad Results 53
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 765 Chip Could Usher In the First Affordable 5G Phones 39
The Great .ORG Heist 80
Facebook and Twitter Users' Data Exposed Due To Third-Party SDK Bug 10
The RIPE NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses 172
Alphabet's Loon Balloons Will Provide Internet To Remote Parts of the Amazon Next Year 20
FCC Chairman Wants Public Auction To Repurpose Satellite Bands For 5G 65
Microsoft Announces Plan To Support DoH In Windows 97
Wikipedia's Co-Founder Takes On Facebook With Ad-Free Social Network 79
Public Cloud Providers' Network Performance Wildly Varies 14
Kepler Achieves a World-First For Satellite Broadband With 100Mbps Connection To the Arctic 33
Ahead of Merger, T-Mobile Announces Its Cheapest Phone Plan Ever and 5G Coming December 6th 37
The July Galileo Outage: What Happened and Why 49
Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School 57
Facebook, Mozilla, and Cloudflare Announce New TLS Delegated Credentials Standard 25
Google's Network Congestion Algorithm Isn't Fair, Researchers Say 20
Country of Georgia Hit By Massive Cyberattack 22
Indian Nuke Plant's Network Reportedly Hit By Malware Tied To North Korea 31
50 Years Ago, the Internet Was Born In Room 3420 43
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
Colorado Drops Its T-Mobile-Sprint Lawsuit After Dish Agrees To House Headquarters In the State 13
DeepMind AI Beats Humans At Deciphering Damaged Ancient Greek Tablets 29
Carriers Want To Hide Detailed 5G Maps From FCC and Public 40
AT&T To Sell Puerto Rico Business As It Looks To Pay Down Debt 15
Microsoft Plans To Bring Internet Access To 40 Million People By 2022 32
Iraq Shuts Down Internet Access As Mass Protests Turn Violent 55
Twitter Outage Takes Down TweetDeck, Affects Images and DMs 36
Sony Cuts PS Now Subscription Price For PS4 Worldwide 9
Woman Who Sleeps In $500 EMF-Blocking Sack Wants Area-Wide Wi-Fi Limits 301
Amazon Sidewalk Is a New Long-Range Wireless Network For Your IoT Devices 46
Hackers Looking Into Injecting Card Stealing Code on Routers, Rather Than Websites 25
Cloudflare Relaunches Its Security-Focused Mobile VPN Warp 19
US Lawmakers Propose $1 Billion Fund To Replace Huawei Equipment 48
Facebook Expands Definition of Terrorist Organizations To Limit Extremism 145
Huawei CEO Offers To License 5G Tech To American Companies In Peace Offer To Trump 38
Giant Entercom Radio Network Gets Ransomwared 14
SpaceX Says It Will Deploy Satellite Broadband Across US Faster Than Expected 60
Weakness In Intel Chips Lets Researchers Steal Encrypted SSH Keystrokes 78
YouTube Creators Are Turning the Site Into a Podcast Network 25
Sally Floyd, Who Helped Things Run Smoothly Online, Dies At 69 17
Comcast, Beware: New City-Run Broadband Offers 1Gbps For $60 a Month 110
YouTube Pressured To Ban Chinese State Media Ads That Spread Misinformation About Protesters 29
How Malformed Packets Caused CenturyLink's 37-Hour, Nationwide Outage 29
India Shut Down Kashmir's Internet Access 40
Verizon: 5G Speeds On Low-Spectrum Bands Will Be More Like 'Good 4G' 84
Critical US Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online 128
Microsoft Catches Russian State Hackers Using IoT Devices To Breach Networks 99
Satellites Reveal 'Hot Lightning' Strikes Are Most Likely To Start Wildfires 43
Ask Slashdot: Budget-Friendly Webcam Without a Cloud Service? 118
FCC Finally Orders ISPs To Say Exactly Where They Offer Broadband 30
Researchers Demonstrate Two-Track Algorithm For Detecting Deepfakes 41
Experts Say the DOJ Justification For T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Approval Is a Joke 98
Mozilla Debuts Implementation of WebThings Gateway Open Source Router Firmware 57
DOJ To Approve T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Despite 13 States Trying To Block It 53
Locally Run ISPs Offer the Fastest Broadband In America 156
FCC Gives ISPs Another $563 Million To Build Rural-Broadband Networks 115
Ajit Pai's New Gift To Cable Companies Would Kill Local Fees and Rules 96
Cloudflare Comes Clean On Crashing a Chunk of the Web Earlier This Month 111
FCC Kills Part of San Francisco's Broadband-Competition Law 110
AT&T Will Automatically Block Fraud Calls For New Customers 61
Almost a Third of World's Top VPNs Are Secretly Owned By Chinese Firms, Study Finds 89
D-Link To Undergo Security Audits For 10 Years as Part of FTC Settlement 21
Frontier Refuses To Waive Router Rental Fee For Customer Who Brought His Own 254
House Votes To Block Ajit Pai's Plan To Kill San Francisco Broadband Law 57
A DIY Internet Network In NYC Now Covers Large Parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn 109
How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today 73
NASA Hacked Because of Unauthorized Raspberry Pi Connected To Its Network 134
US Video Streaming App YouNow Files Cryptocurrency Offering With SEC 25
Scientists Train AI To Learn People's Voices, Then Generate Their Faces 63
Better Broadband Lowers Unemployment Rates, Study Says 47
Maine Governor Signs Bill Banning ISPs From Selling Consumer Data Without Consent 24
Russia Says It Will Soon Begin Blocking Major VPNs 75
For Two Hours, European Mobile Traffic Was Rerouted Through China 57
Microsoft and Oracle Link Up Their Clouds 69
Sony Builds IoT Chip With a 60-Mile Range 93
Huawei's Ace In the Hole: Undersea Cables 107
5G Could Mean Less Time To Flee a Deadly Hurricane, Heads of NASA and NOAA Warn 153
The Underground Network of Microbes That Connects Trees Mapped For First Time 45
Verizon's 5G Network Is Now Hitting Gigabit Download Speeds 88
Trump Signs Executive Order Barring US Companies From Using Huawei Gear 249
Division 2 Multiplayer and Single-Player Campaign Broken By Latest Update 27
5G Networks Will Likely Interfere With US Weather Satellites, Navy Warns 62
Huawei Says It is Willing To Sign 'No-Spy' Agreements With Governments 173
Ajit Pai Refuses To Investigate Frontier's Horrible Telecom Service 232
Google Is Adding Augmented Reality To Search 18
Comcast Usage Soars 34 Percent To 200GB a Month, Pushing Users Closer To Data Cap 144
Ask Slashdot: Would a Separate, Walled-Off 'SafeNet' Help Reduce Cybercrime? 284
Wireless Carriers Fight Ban On Throttling Firefighters During Emergencies 173
UK To Let Huawei Firm Help Build 5G Network 64
26 States Now Ban Or Restrict Community Broadband, Report Finds 202
Ajit Pai Proposes Blocking China-Owned Telecom From US Phone Market 47
Some Internet Outages Predicted For the Coming Month as '768k Day' Approaches 65
Bad Bots Now Make Up 20 Percent of Web Traffic 32
Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries 98
Russia Adopts Bill That Would Expand Government Control Over the Internet 96
Google Fiber To Pay Nearly $4 Million To Louisville In Exit Deal 74
More Jails Replace In-Person Visits With Awful Video Chat Products 260
Colorado's 'Open Internet' Bill Would Punish Internet-Providing Violators By Taking Their Grant Money Away 85
Airbnb Guest Found Hidden Surveillance Camera By Scanning Wi-Fi Network 99
Hacker Group Has Been Hijacking DNS Traffic On D-Link Routers For Three Months [Update] 40
House Democrats Refuse To Weaken Net Neutrality Bill, Defeat GOP Amendments 127
Verizon Begins Rolling Out Its 5G Wireless Network In Chicago, Minneapolis 46
Amazon Quietly Removes Promo Spots That Gave Special Treatment To Its Own Products 35
French ISPs Ordered To Block Sci-Hub, LibGen 77
Taiwan To Block Tencent and Baidu Streaming Sites, Citing National Security and Propaganda Concerns 38
Gmail Becomes First Major Email Provider To Support MTA-STS, TLS Reporting 25
Cloudflare Says Its New VPN Service Won't Slow You Down 73
Security Researcher Pleads Guilty To Hacking Into Microsoft and Nintendo 53
Russia Orders Major VPN Providers To Block 'Banned' Sites 87
Bill That Would Restore Net Neutrality Moves Forward Despite Telecom's Best Efforts To Kill It 190
FTC Tells ISPs To Disclose Exactly What Information They Collect On Users and What It's For 32
The US Desperately Needs a 'Fiber For All' Plan 204
MIT Develops Algorithm To Accelerate Neural Networks By 200x 43
Microsoft Says the FCC 'Overstates' Broadband Availability In the US 53
Trump Blockade of Huawei Fizzles In European 5G Rollout 280
Why Google Stadia Will Be a Major Problem For Many American Players 185
Vladimir Putin Signs Sweeping Internet-Censorship Bills 420
House Democrats Plan April Vote On Net Neutrality Bill 140
Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online 43
ISPs Strike Deal With Vermont To Suspend State Net Neutrality Law 28
Valve's Steam Link Will Let You Stream Your PC Games Anywhere 7
Portland City Council May Ask FCC To Investigate Health Risks of 5G Networks 175
EU's Plan To Ban Sale of User-Moddable RF Devices Draws Widespread Condemnation 142
Ajit Pai's Rosy Broadband Deployment Claim May Be Based On Gigantic Error 121
Facebook Takes Down Fake Account Network Used To Spread Hate In UK 198
Google Open-Sources GPipe, a Library For Training Large Deep Neural Networks 22
Firefox Fears UAE Government's Cybersecurity Company 'DarkMatter' May Be Tied To a Cyber Espionage Program 20
Cloudflare Expands Its Government Warrant Canaries 120
Vodafone CEO Says Banning Huawei Could Set Europe's 5G Rollout Back Another Two Years 120
New Flaws In 4G, 5G Allow Attackers To Intercept Calls and Track Phone Locations 46
ICANN Warns of 'Ongoing and Significant' Attacks Against Internet's DNS Infrastructure 94
Verizon Asks FCC To Let It Lock New Smartphones For 60 Days 81
FCC Says Gutting ISP Oversight Was Great For Broadband 141
President Trump Wants US To Win 5G Through Real Competition 129
Frontier Demands $4,300 Cancellation Fee Despite Horribly Slow Internet 209
Verizon Plans To Roll Out Its 5G Mobile Network In 30 Cities This Year 37
Britain and Germany Will Not Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Spying Evidence 240
Are We Ready For 5G Phones? 85
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X55 Modem Is the 4G/5G Solution We've Been Waiting For 59
Facebook Glitch Lets You Search For Pictures of Your Female Friends, But Not Your Male Ones 67
Reddit Users Are the Least Valuable of Any Social Network 184
Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely By Viewing Malicious PNG Image 149
Texas Lawmaker Wants To Ban Mobile Throttling In Disaster Areas 106
Amazon Is Buying Mesh Router Company Eero 30
Huawei Would Accept EU Supervision To Lay 5G Network 101
Australia Parliamentary Network Hacked In Possible Foreign Government Attack 31
Google Fiber Abandoning Louisville Residents With Two Months Notice 132
Ex-Cons Create 'Instagram For Prisons,' and Wardens Are Fine With That 83
House Democrats Tell Ajit Pai: Stop Screwing Over the Public 320
'You Need To Be Very, Very Cautious': US Warns European Allies Not To Use Chinese Gear For 5G Networks 273
Slack Says It's Filed To Go Public 52
Google+ Reveals Shutdown Timeline For Consumers 31
Meet the Man Behind a Third of What's On Wikipedia 189
All-Photonic Quantum Repeaters Could Lead To a Faster, More Secure Global Quantum Internet 54
Terabyte-Using Cable Customers Double, Increasing Risk of Data Cap Fees 117
FCC Accused of Colluding With Big Cable To Game 5G Legal Challenge 104
Google Proposes Changes To Chromium Browser That Will Break Content-Blocking Extensions, Including Various Ad Blockers 334
Facebook's Plans For Space Lasers Revealed 38
New Satellite Network Will Make It Impossible For a Commercial Airplane To Vanish 167
First 5G Remote Surgery Completed In China 88
A Neural Network Can Learn To Recognize the World It Sees Into Concepts 69
'We're Working On Rollable Phones,' Says LG CTO 70
University of California Tells Students Not To Use WeChat, WhatsApp In China 69
Yellow Vests Knock Out 60 Percent of All Speed Cameras In France 417
The Feds Cracked El Chapo's Encrypted Comms Network By Flipping His System Admin 111
Canada's Bell Telecommunications Company Wants Permission To Gather, Track Customer Data 73
Verizon Says It Won't Launch Fake 5G Icons Like AT&T Did 54
AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon 74
Link Between Social Media and Depression Stronger In Teen Girls Than Boys, Study Says 181
OSNews Suffered 'Likely' Data Breach, Contemplated Going Offline Permanently 77
Iran Extends Social Media Crackdown With Move To Bar Instagram 37