Elon Musk wants to launch 4,000 satellites and smother globe with net connectivity

$10bn scheme not at all unrealistic *cough* Hyperloop *cough* Money-burning madman Elon Musk has asked US regulators for permission to launch more than 4,000 satellites in a $10bn wheeze to create a global satellite internet network.…

Facebook Telecom Infrastructure Project starts chucking rocks at mobile model

Targets the heart of the network Analysis  Nine months after announcing its Telecom Infrastructure Project (TIP), Facebook has held its first summit and unveiled new partners and a first concrete project, a white box transponder/router for fibre bac…

Elon Musk wants to launch 4,000 satellites and smother globe with net connectivity

$10bn scheme not at all unrealistic *cough* Hyperloop *cough* Money-burning madman Elon Musk has asked US regulators for permission to launch more than 4,000 satellites in a $10bn wheeze to create a global satellite internet network.…

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Brits parlement neemt omstreden spionagewet aan

Beide kamers van het Britse parlement hebben woensdag hun goedkeuring verleend aan de Investigatory Powers Bill, die veiligheidsdiensten nieuwe bevoegdheden geeft. De wet treedt in werking na koninklijke goedkeuring.

NVMe SDD? Not yet, says Pure, but promises to deliver it

FlashArray//M customers will get souped-up protocol Pure's NVMe-Ready Guarantee promises every newly purchased FlashArray//M can be upgraded to full NVMe through their Evergreen Storage program.…

Has Linux got OpenStack licked? The Vanilla 'Plus' strategy

Days of froth and noise inside the big tent are over No man is an island, nor is OpenStack removed from the fates of two of its – until recently – best-known names.…

NVMe SDD? Not yet, says Pure, but promises to deliver it

FlashArray//M customers will get souped-up protocol Pure's NVMe-Ready Guarantee promises every newly purchased FlashArray//M can be upgraded to full NVMe through their Evergreen Storage program.…

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Probleem met Nvidia-driver zorgt voor slechte prestaties GTX 10-gpu's

De nieuwste GeForce-driver van Nvidia zet door een fout de geheugensnelheid van sommige Pascal-videokaarten vast op 810MHz. Daardoor kampen gebruikers met slechte prestaties in games. Volgens Nvidia komt het voor bij videokaarten die door de fabrika…

Schneier: kopers en verkopers geven niets om kwetsbaarheden in iot-apparaten

Beveiligingsexpert Bruce Schneier zegt dat het verkopers en kopers van internet-of-things-apparaten, zoals webcams en digitale videorecorders, niet kan schelen dat deze lekken bevatten. Daarom zou de overheid minimumeisen moeten invoeren.

KCL staff offered emotional support, clergy chat to help get over data loss

#PrayForKCL Exclusive  Staff at King's College London are now being offered counseling and prayers to help them get over the data loss suffered during October's catastrophic IT failure.…

Memset outage was caused by split brains

Data centre owner Everest says routers in stack ran different software versions Cloudy hosting biz Memset's outage yesterday has been explained by data centre operator Everest DC: a power outage combined with stacked routers each running different s…

KCL staff offered emotional support, clergy chat to help get over data loss

#PrayForKCL Exclusive  Staff at King's College London are now being offered counseling and prayers to help them get over the data loss suffered during October's catastrophic IT failure.…

Memset outage was caused by split brains

Data centre owner Everest says routers in stack ran different software versions Cloudy hosting biz Memset's outage yesterday has been explained by data centre operator Everest DC: a power outage combined with stacked routers each running different s…

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