Windows 11 arrives on October 5, Android apps will come later
Microsoft Windows 11 is no longer merely "coming this fall." Microsoft will begin releasing the new operating system to the public on October 5, starting with newer PCs (and PCs...
Submarine cable network nears 500 companies over 1.3 million km
Global telecoms market research and consulting firm TeleGeography has upgraded its Interactive Submarine Cable Map to show the extent of the current rapid growth of a market that now...
Chinese Apps and India’s ban – Where do we stand now?
It was in May last year that India and China engaged in a border skirmish that had its echoes in the economic firmament of both countries. The federal government in...
The Raxio Group sets out Pan-African colocation datacentre expansion plans
Pan-African datacentre developer The Raxio Group has set out plans to open colocation facilities in several more countries, having opened its first in Uganda in May 2021. The Ugandan...
Instagram needs your birthday – Here’s why
Instagram, which recently brought in new features to make things safer for youngsters on the platform, is taking more steps in that direction. It will now ask the users who’ve...
Coinbase erroneously reported 2FA changes to 125,000 customers
Enlarge / On Friday afternoon, Coinbase sent email and SMS text messages to 125,000 customers, erroneously telling them that their 2FA settings had been changed. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase sent an...
Not enough backup power: AT&T and T-Mobile suffer big outages in Louisiana
Enlarge / LaPlace, Louisiana: Jacqueline Smith waits with her mother Lucille Matthew for transportation after they were rescued from their flooded neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on August...
China now has over a billion citizens connected to the internet
More than a billion Chinese citizens now use the internet, majority via their smartphones, according to the latest round of figures released by the China Internet Network Information Centre. Parsing their...
A bad solar storm could cause an “Internet apocalypse”
Enlarge / Even if the power comes back after the next big solar storm, the internet may not.Jean Claude Moschetti | REA | REDUX Scientists have known for decades that...
“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure
Enlarge / Cosmos DB is a managed database service offering—including both relational and noSQL data structures—belonging to Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure. Cloud security vendor Wiz announced yesterday that it found...