Networking

Getty Images/iStockphoto With all of Twitter’s ever-growing technical problems, I’d missed an elephant in the room-sized disaster. Fortunately, a friend reminded me that many people use Twitter’s log-in as their login for other websites. Eep! You need to stop doing that right now. Why? Because part of Twitter’s log-in system ...

VPNs are resource-intensive and can take a huge toll on your network bandwidth, which is why you should only employ them when you need them. Getty Images A virtual private network (VPN) can be an important tool in your online protection routine, but only if you know exactly what a ...

(Source: Singtel) Six carriers have teamed up to build a $300 million subsea cable system that seeks to boost connectivity between Southeast Asia and China. Spanning 6,000 kilometres, the network will link up Singapore, Hong Kong, Brunei, the Philippines, and China.  Called the Asia Link Cable (ALC) system, the cable ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto At first, it looked like the OpenSSL 3.x security bug was going to be truly awful. While it was feared to be a critical error that could lead to remote code execution (RCE), upon a closer examination it turned out to be not so horrid after all. That’s ...

Image: XH4D/Getty Images At the GITEX Global conference last week in Dubai, communications hardware and software provider Avaya showcased how its technology can be integrated into a metaverse experience. GITEX has become a premier technology conference across the globe and rivals CES for attendance.  Avaya has been a mainstay at ...

Oscar Wong/Moment/Getty Images Linux is a very powerful operating system that is also one of the most flexible in the marketplace. That flexibility has always been a big selling point of the OS. Any user that doesn’t like the way Linux works can always bend it to better fit their ...

Image: Sundry Photography/Shutterstock SpaceX and US mobile carrier T-Mobile have teased an announcement, to be shared today, that they claim will “increase connectivity”.  The two companies, along with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, announced the surprise event via their respective Twitter accounts. It will be held at 7:00pm CT today at ...

solarseven/Shutterstock Some people still insist that OpenStack, the open-source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, is dead. They are so, so wrong. By Statista‘s count, OpenStack is the most popular open-source cloud of all. And what’s more important for Red Hat is that telecoms, such as Verizon cellular and 5G networks, live and ...

Image: Sundry Photography/Shutterstock SpaceX and US mobile carrier T-Mobile have teased an announcement, to be shared today, that they claim will “increase connectivity”.  The two companies, along with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, announced the surprise event via their respective Twitter accounts. It will be held at 7:00pm CT today at ...

Image: Sundry Photography/Shutterstock SpaceX and US mobile carrier T-Mobile have teased an announcement, to be shared today, that they claim will “increase connectivity”.  The two companies, along with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, announced the surprise event via their respective Twitter accounts. It will be held at 7:00pm CT today at ...