AOL pulls the plug on its dial-up dinosaur
After 34 years, the screech of the modem is no more
AOL has decided to kill off its dial-up internet service at the end of September, bringing the curtain down on a relic of the early web.
Qualcomm wants Wi-Fi 8 to work when everything goes wrong
No more dropped packets, roaming flops, and latency hell
Qualcomm is leading a new crusade to make Wi-Fi suck less in the real world.
Thousands of ASUS routers backdoored without malware
GreyNoise and Sekoia warn
Thousands of ASUS routers have been compromised with persistent backdoors in what appears to be a sophisticated campaign aimed at laying the groundwork for a future botnet, according to threat researchers at GreyNoise and Sekoia.io.
Starlink suffers massive outage
Tens of thousands lose service
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet was hit by a major outage, knocking tens of thousands of users offline just as the company celebrated a key milestone in its partnership with T-Mobile.
French beginning to surrender on ADSL
Three-quarters of French internet now runs on fibre
Optical fibre has taken over the French broadband market, with three out of four internet subscriptions now delivered over fibre connections, according to figures released by telecoms regulator ARCEP.