Networking

The race is on to create one neural network that can process multiple kinds of data — a more-general artificial intelligence that doesn’t discriminate about types of data but instead can crunch them all within the same basic structure. The genre of multi-modality, as these neural networks are called, is ...

If you’re a real network administrator, you know and love open source Wireshark. For over 15-years, it’s been the tool that professionals use for network traffic protocol analysis. Nothing else even comes close. Now, Sysdig, the container and cloud security company, has hired Gerald Combs, its creator and project leader, ...

Multiple ad blockers topped Firefox’s list of the most popular and innovative add-on browser extensions of 2021.  Firefox determines which add-ons are “most popular” by calculating their average daily users (ADU) throughout the entire year. Adblock Plus averaged 6,134,231 daily users while uBlock Origin averaged 5,011,974 throughout 2021. Firefox notes ...

Telstra has paid a AU$2.5 million fine levelled at it by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) after the regulator found what it described as large-sale privacy and safety breaches. The first was Telstra failing to mark a customer’s phone number as silent in the Integrated Public Number Database ...

Image: Cisco The City of Adelaide has picked TPG Telecom to replace its free Wi-Fi network at a cost of AU$4.8 million. Since 2014, the network was built and run by hometown telco Internode, with Internode’s parent winning the contract for an initial five years. TPG is set to replace ...

Image: MiaoMiao Lv, Getty Images/iStockphoto The company responsible for Australia’s National Broadband Network has once again revealed the amount of copper it has purchased in its existence. However this time, NBN decided it would add the amount of optical fibre as additional information. “As of 26 October 2021, NBN co ...

What an NCD fears most Image: Clinton Naik When summer weather begins to hit the Australian east coast, those on fibre-to-the-curb (FttC) connections need to brace for some electronics frying thanks to lightning activity. In an update to the numbers it revealed to Senate Estimates in May, where it had ...

Credit: Microsoft Last fall, Microsoft launched its Azure Space initiative, which was designed to position Azure as a key player in the space- and satellite-related connectivity/compute part of the cloud market. On December 9, Microsoft provided updates on Azure Space, plus a new partnership with Airbus that falls under the ...

Image: Shutterstock The AU$79.7 million in net profit that Cisco Australia claimed last year has been shown in its most recent financials to have had no basis in reality, with the local arm of the networking giant actually posting a AU$16.7 million loss.  On 31 January 2020, Cisco Australia purchased ...

Image: Getty Images Just as The International School of Yangon (ISY) in Myanmar was preparing to reopen and return to face-to-face learning following COVID-19 lockdowns, the country was forced to grapple with widespread political unrest after military forces seized control in a coup d’état on February 1. For an initial ...