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Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices
Let's experiment with controlling Bluetooth Low Energy devices from a web browser with this LED project and balenaCloud.
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 118 posts.
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Post-mortem and remediations for the Matrix.org security breach
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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DKIM Demystified
DKIM is a way to secure your email, increasing deliverability and avoiding fraud. A 20i Senior Systems Administrator explains DKIM in depth.
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Apple’s Low Latency HLS differs from the community-developed solution
One bite and all your dreams will come true - Apple. Last week at WWDC, Apple announced their usual cascade of software updates, and as has been tradition for the last 4 years, Roger Pantos took the s...
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Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out
Today we allocated the last of our contiguous /22 IPv4 address blocks. We still have approximately one million addresses available, in the form of /23s and /24s, and we will continue making /22-equivalent allocations made up of these smaller blocks. Once we can no longer allocate the equivalent of a /22, we will…
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LoRaWAN distance world record broken twice: 766km using 25mW power
After almost 2 years, the world record of 702 km (436 miles) has been broken. Not once but twice. For a long time this record which was set on 26th of August 20
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Making email more secure with MTA-STS standard
Posted by Nicolas Lidzborski, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud and Nicolas Kardas, Senior Product Manager, Google Cloud We’re...
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Gravitational Wormhole: WireGuard for Kubernetes
Announcing Teleport Wormhole, a new open source Kubernetes network plugin that combines the simplicity of flannel with encrypted networking from WireGuard.
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RFC8482 – Saying Goodbye to ANY
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to welcome the new shiny RFC8482, which effectively deprecates DNS ANY query type. DNS ANY was a "meta-query" - think about it as a similar thing to the common A, AAAA, MX or SRV query types, but unlike these it wasn't a real query type - it was special.
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Improved VPC Networking for AWS Lambda
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Update – August 5, 2020: We have fully rolled out the changes to the following additional Regions to those mentioned below. These improvements are now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by…
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Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Iraq has introduced a nighttime internet curfew, consistent with reports from IT industry workers in recent days. Confirmed: #Iraq has partly ...
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Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol
What’s an agreement system? What makes one “Byzantine”? What makes a Byzantine one “federated”?
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Strength in Numbers: An Entire Ecosystem Relies on Tor
If the Tor Project, the Tor network, and Tor Browser were to disappear, what would happen? Not only would millions of global, daily users lose access to Tor’s software, but the diverse ecosystem of privacy, security, and anti-censorship applications that rely on the Tor network would cease to function.
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NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver
NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program Committing to Data Retention and Transparency Requirements that Respect User Privacy Firefox a
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Mastodon 2.7: Highlights from the changelog
In this release: New profile directory, new tutorial, new public hashtag pages and more moderation tools
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Public DNS in Taiwan the Latest Victim of BGP Hijack
Guest Post: Traffic going through a public DNS in Taiwan was rerouted to an entity in Brazil for about three and a half minutes.
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On the Road to WebRTC 1.0, Including VP8
Safari 11 was the first Safari version to support WebRTC.
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Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System
Starting since version 1.30, the Mac, Linux, and Windows Private Internet Access (PIA) desktop clients have come with the ability to change the selected
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DNS-over-HTTPS Policy Requirements for Resolvers
Over the past few months, we’ve been experimenting with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), a protocol which uses encryption to protect DNS requests and responses, with the goal of deploying DoH by default ...
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What’s Next in Making Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS the Default
More than 70,000 users have already chosen on their own to explicitly enable DoH in Firefox Release edition. We are close to releasing DoH in the USA, and we have a few updates to share.
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Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time AV1 Codec
Webex is rolling out the AV1 video codec into production early next year, bringing our media quality to the next level.
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BGP 768K day, and whether it will cause internet outages
Learn what 768K day is and what it may mean for businesses that rely on the Internet to operate.
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We built network isolation for 1500 services
We've been working on isolating the 1,500 services that power Monzo. The sheer size and complexity of our platform made this difficult. But by protecting us against compromised services, it makes Monzo more secure.