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Facebook (Meta) international cable expansion: animated map
Facebook has increased its submarine cable holdings from near-zero to 6% of the world's total backbone infrastructure as of 2022, and will double by 2024.
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Mitmproxy 9: WireGuard Mode
We’re excited to announce the release of mitmproxy 9, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy. This release brings support for raw UDP and DTLS, a new WireGuard proxy mode, and major usability improvements.
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The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report
The Internet is easily censored. The neo-liberal's got their arses kicked. The big players like Google/Apple/AWS are partly to blame. China runs the GFI.
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Google added HEVC support in Chrome
Google has recently fixed a bug in Chrome with a big implication for the video streaming industry: Support for adaptive streaming of HEVC / H.265 video content.
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The State of AV1 Playback Support
Apple keeps adding AV1 codec support! iPad Pro joins iPhone 15 Pro and Macbooks with dedicated AV1 hardware decoders! Learn everything you need to know about AV1 playback support.
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MagicDNS is generally available
Tailscale’s MagicDNS is now GA and enabled by default for new tailnets. Say goodbye to IP address management and access your devices using simple, memorable DNS names for enhanced connectivity.
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Aquila: A unified, low-latency fabric for datacenter networks
Dan Gibson, Hema Hariharan, Eric Lance, Moray McLaren, Behnam Montazeri, Arjun Singh, Stephen Wang, Hassan M. G. Wassel, Zhehua Wu, Sunghwan Yoo, Raghuraman Balasubramanian, Prashant Chandra, Michael Cutforth, Peter Cuy, David Decotigny, Rakesh Gautam, Alex Iriza, Milo M. K. Martin, Rick Roy, Zuowei Shen, Ming Tan, Ye…
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A Memory Safe Implementation of the Network Time Protocol
Folkert and the team at Tweede golf are helping us to build a memory safe NTP implementation. We asked them to share their experience in this blog post. Thank you for your partnership and contributions, Tweede golf team! Josh Aas, Head of ISRG’s Prossimo project For the last few months we at Tweede golf have been…
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Vectis IP Announces Call for Patents Essential to the Opus codec
London, UK: UK-based IP and technology licensing company Vectis IP today announced a call for patents essential to the Opus codec.
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WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking via Tailscale
WebVM, our virtual Linux environment running fully client-side in the browser, now supports networking via Tailscale.
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VideoLAN has issued a legal notice to Indian Gov for banning their website
VideoLAN’s URL from which users download the VLC Media Player appears to have been banned by the DoT in India since March 2021. This was done without any prior notice, or affording VideoLAN an opportunity of hearing, which is contrary to the Indian law.
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Enhanced noise suppression in Jitsi Meet
For a while now Jitsi Meet has been using the RNNoise library to calculate voice audio detection scores for audio input tracks and leveraging those to implement functionality such as “talk while muted” and “noisy […]
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Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea
After the three gas leaks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, the Danish Defence deployed the frigate Absalon and the pollution control vessel Gunnar Thorson, as well as a helicopter capacity.
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Cloudflare Calls
We are announcing Cloudflare Calls, a new product that lets developers build real-time audio and video apps
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Zero Trust SIM
We’re announcing the first Zero Trust SIM: the next major part of Cloudflare One, combining both software and hardware layers to rethink mobile device security for organizations
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Using WebTransport
The WebTransport API offers low-latency, bidirectional, client-server messaging. Learn about its use cases, and how to give feedback about the future of the implementation.
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Royal Caribbean to use SpaceX's Starlink to provide internet onboard their fleet
Stay up to date and informed on all Royal Caribbean Cruises news with our most recent press releases.
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An Introduction to PipeWire
This blog post is the first part of a series of 3 articles related to the PipeWire project and its usage in embedded Linux systems.
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Amazon, Verizon found using IPv4 240/4 addresses
In this article we use data from RIPE Atlas probes to investigate the usage of 240/4, a block of IPv4 addresses 'reserved for future use', formally known as Class E in the wild.
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YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech
NetBlocks metrics confirm the disruption of YouTube on multiple internet providers in Pakistan on Sunday 21 August 2022. The disruption comes as former Prime Minister Imran Khan makes a live ...
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“I survived the TCP transition” (2013)
This year we invited Vint Cerf to tell the story.
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Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome
HTTP/2 Server Push will be disabled by default in Chrome 106
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PGPP (Pretty Good Phone Privacy) Beta Launch
We are excited to announce that PGPP (Pretty Good Phone Privacy) is now in Beta.
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The mechanics of a sophisticated phishing scam and how we stopped it
Yesterday, August 8, 2022, Twilio shared that they’d been compromised by a targeted phishing attack. Around the same time as Twilio was attacked, we saw an attack with very similar characteristics also targeting Cloudflare’s employees
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DNS-over-HTTP/3 in Android
Posted by Matthew Maurer and Mike Yu, Android team To help keep Android users’ DNS queries private, Android supports encrypted DNS. I...
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Element (Matrix) adds video/voice rooms
We're so excited to announce that Video Rooms is entering beta in Element, just as a new Room Search is exiting beta!
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Gambling and Adult content DNS blocking using Mullvad VPN
We have expanded our DNS blocking service with Gambling and Adult content filters!
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IETF Draft: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards
Despite being designed and operated as a decentralized network-of-networks, the Internet is continuously subjected to forces that encourage centralization. This document offers a definition of centralization, explains why it is undesirable, identifies different types of it, catalogues limitations of common approaches…