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Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home
University of Washington researchers have shown it's possible to leverage Wi-Fi signals around us to detect specific movements without needing sensors on the hu
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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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Google Hits 50% IPv6
IPv6 has reached a major milestone, with around half of Google’s users now accessing its services over IPv6.
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Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Standard
Faster, easier and more secure sign-ins will be available to consumers across leading devices and platforms
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Russia Blocks Access to Major Independent News Sites
Russia's government has escalated its use of its Internet censorship law to target news sites, bloggers, and politicians under the slimmest excuse of preventing unauthorized protests and enforcing house arrest regulations. Today, the country's ISPs have received orders to block a list of major news...
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HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
HTTP/3 has been in development since at least 2016, while QUIC (the protocol beneath it) was first introduced by Google way back in 2013. Both are now...
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Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec
Video codecs remain an area of active research and development. The current generation video codec is H.264 – in widespread usage on the Internet. Cisco
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The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
At //Build 2016, Microsoft announced the ability to run native Bash and GNU/Linux command-line tools directly on the new Windows Subsystem for Linux
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Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland
Uninterrupted, good quality mobile phone reception is extremely important to rail passengers.
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FTP is 50 years old
FTP was first published the 16th of April 1971
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The 5-Hour CDN
You can build a functional CDN on an 8-year-old laptop while you're sitting at a coffee shop. Here's what a CDN you put together in five hours might look like.
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The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses
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1.1.1.1 for Families
Introducing 1.1.1.1 for Families — the easiest way to add a layer of protection to your home network and protect it from malware and adult content.
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The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3
We are replacing the de facto protocol the internet has used for decades with QUIC, the latest and most radical step we’ve taken to optimize our network protocols to create a better experience for …
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SSH Handshake Explained
Secure Shell (SSH) is a widely used Transport Layer Protocol to secure connections between clients and servers. In this post we explain how SSH handshake works.
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Android 14 introduces cellular connectivity security features
Posted by Roger Piqueras Jover, Yomna Nasser, and Sudhi Herle Android is the first mobile operating system to introduce advanced cellular...
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JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you
Using the Jitsi iFrame API and mobile SDK, you can embed meetings in any web or mobile app. Learn how to build a custom video experience using our services.
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Turn off DoH, Firefox
Affordable VM hosting in Glarus, Switzerland, operated by 100% hydropower. Devuan, debian, freebsd, ubuntu, centos. Our tech stack is fully open source.
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How NAT Traversal Works (2020)
Learn how NAT traversal works, how Tailscale can get through and securely connect your devices directly to each other.
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Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is doing throttling
YouTube resolution down again? Through a collaboration with another Massachusetts university, this Northeastern team unveils exactly who’s responsible.
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How SSH port became 22 (2017)
The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.
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