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New app developed by Facebook and WhatsApp owner is due to launch in the UK and US on ThursdayMark Zuckerberg’s rival to Twitter will not launch in the EU on Thursday amid regulatory uncertainty about the service’s use of personal data.Sources at Meta,…
National cybersecurity coordinator Darren Goldie says ransomware gang ALPHV/Blackcat is responsible for posting the material onlineGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSensitive and personal government information ha…
Telecoms providers added ‘insult to injury’ as prices rose, says report by Which? for year to January 2023More than half of UK broadband customers have experienced problems with their connections, according to a report that says telecoms providers are …
Study will investigate regulatory gaps and could treat online content in same way as films on DVDWeb pornography could be subject to tighter rules in the UK, putting it on a par with films on DVD under government plans to review regulation of the onlin…
“Black Swan events are hard-to-predict rare events that can significantly alter the course of our lives,” begins a 2021 paper by a computer science professor at the University of California.
Now the Washington Post revisits that exploration of the po…
Submarine cables installed on the ocean floor facilitate the transmission of data and voice between land-based stations. International communication has relied on submarine cables since the first one was laid across the English Channel in 1850. This ca…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Something fishy is happening in the Netherlands and viewers worldwide are hooked. No, this isn’t the latest voyeuristic reality series from the creators of Big Brother and The Traitors. It’s a char…
The servers used by the GMP project, an open source arithmetic library at the heart of GCC and other programs, slowed to a crawl earlier this month due to a large amount of network traffic originating from Microsoft servers. The Register reports: Torbj…
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The report also raises concerns about the increasing influence of hyperscale companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft in the global cable network, potentially leading to market monopolies and challenges to digital sovereignty.
This i…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ExtremeTech: Americans hate their internet service providers (ISPs) more than any other segment of the consumer economy — except gas stations. A fresh set of rankings from the American Consumer Satisfaction Ind…