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This image shows the far side of the Moon, as well as our own planet Earth. It was taken with a camera linked to an amateur radio transceiver on board the Chinese DSLWP-B / Longjiang-2 satellite (call sign BJ1SN), currently in orbit around the Moon, and transmitted back to Earth where it was received with the…
Building highly scalable, loosely coupled systems has always been tough. With the proliferation of mobile and IoT devices, burgeoning data volumes and increasing customer expectations, it's critical to be able to develop and run systems efficiently and reliably at internet scale.
Gluon is a new high-performance IMAP library that is open source, RFC compliant, and actively maintained and improved by the Proton Mail team.
On the 16th January 2023 we will shut down our legacy public DNS service, currently reachable from this IP: 193.138.218.74
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Guest Post: Content providers are increasingly investing in new submarine cables. Are they forming a cartel?
MQTT is a pub/sub network protocol especially built to enable efficient communication to and from Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Today, as part of our efforts to make the web faster , we are announcing Google Public DNS , a new experimental public DNS resolver. The DNS...
The new standard is almost here. Will it change how producers and performers make music?
A proposal to add a "spin bit" to the QUIC protocol sparked much debate at IETF 101.
More than 20 million U.S. households had unresolved complaints against their ISPs last year. Despite wanting justice, many didn't pursue.
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The Dunant submarine cable system, crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the U.S. and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, has been deployed and tested and is now ready for service.
This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the result of that processing. This is similar to POST requests but can be automatically repeated or restarted without concern for partial…
[Update] 2018-09-05 11:00 GMT+8, with the generous help from the AS64073, 103.193.137.211 has been promptly suspended and is no longer a threat. Overview MikroTik is a Latvian company founded in 1996 to develop routers and wireless ISP systems. MikroTik now provides hardware and software for
One of the best ways to find ways to improve performance, we’ve found, is to work closely with our customers. We love shared troubleshooting sessions with their own engineering teams to find and eliminate bottlenecks.
Back in November, T-Mobile announced a new service for its mobile customers called Binge On, in which video streams from certain websites don’t count against customers’ data caps.[fn]To be fair, T-Mobile’s plans don’t have traditional data caps—they just slow down to “2G” speeds once customers...
Celebrate SFP Liberation Day with Ubiquiti’s new SFP Wizard, the $49 portable tool that tests and programs any SFP or QSFP module in seconds. Enjoy up to 1000% off Ubiquiti SFPs and unlock true universal compatibility across every switch and network.
Like most people, we at EFF are horrified by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Also like most people, we are not experts on military strategy or international diplomacy. But we do have some expertise with the internet and civil liberties, which is why we are deeply concerned that governments around the...
a post going over 4 exploits for CVE-2024-20017, a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in a component of the MediaTek MT7622 SDK.
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
We’re delighted to announce the release of mitmproxy 7, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy. This release is all about our new proxy core, which bring substantial improvements across the board and represents a massive milestone for the project.
This investigates the connections between organizations and people involved with policy making at ICANN focused around the effort to remove price caps from the .ORG domain registry
An article by Michael Tremer titled Why not WireGuard is sometimes shared in VPN discussions. Unfortunately that article contains several misconceptions and some out-of-date information that deserves to be addressed.
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When an ISP decides to exempt certain applications or services from cutting into a user's data cap, that's zero rating. And the evidence is in that it conclusively makes broadband more expensive. A comprehensive multi-year study by the non-profit Epicenter.works, comparing the 30 member countries...
