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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and assume new regulatory oversight of broadband internet that was rescinded under former President Donald… Continue reading FCC To Vote To Restore Net Neutrality Rules
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: In the average American house, any download rate above roughly 242 Mbs is considered a solidly speedy broadband internet connection. That’s pretty decent, but across the Atlantic, researchers at… Continue reading Researchers Unlock Fiber Optic Connection 1.2 Million Times Faster Than Broadband
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Wednesday, the IEEE Computer Society announced to members that, after April 1, it would no longer accept papers that include a frequently used image of a 1972 Playboy model named Lena Forsen. Th… Continue reading Playboy Image From 1972 Gets Ban From IEEE Computer Journals
An international research team has sent an astounding amount of data at a nearly incomprehensible speed. It’s the fastest data transmission ever using a single optical fiber and shows just how speedy the process can get using current materials.Continue… Continue reading Blazing bits transmitted 4.5 million times faster than broadband
In this post, we are going to show you how to create an internet kill switch on Windows 11/10. It is mostly used in a panic situation when you need to disconnect your internet quickly. Thus, it is also known as a Panic Button. What is the kill switch o… Continue reading How to create an Internet Kill Switch on Windows 11/10?
Major U.S. broadband internet providers must start displaying information similar to nutrition labels on food products to help consumers shop for services starting on April 10, under new rules from the Federal Communications Commission. From a report: … Continue reading US Broadband Providers To Begin Providing New Comparison Labels
Christopher Harper reports via Tom’s Hardware: Earlier this month, Danluu.com released an exhaustive 23-page analysis/op-ed/manifesto on the current status of unoptimized web pages and web app performance, finding that just loading a web page can even … Continue reading Modern Web Bloat Means Some Pages Load 21MB of Data
With all the tools legally available to “secure” one’s connection to the internet nowadays, why aren’t government organisations like the CIA taking any action against the companies and people behind these applications/services, such as Duc… Continue reading Secure web browsing and the internet
Damage to at least three subsea cables off the west coast of Africa is disrupting internet services across the continent. From a report: The West Africa Cable System, MainOne and ACE sea cables — arteries for telecommunications data — were all affect… Continue reading Undersea Cable Damage Causes Internet Outages Across Africa
Contributors from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, writing for BrowserBench: Since the initial version of the Speedometer benchmark was released in 2014 by the WebKit team, it has become a key tool for browser engines to drive performance optimiz… Continue reading Speedometer 3.0: A Shared Browser Benchmark for Web Application Responsiveness