Datacenter BIT wants clean and safe internet and writes a manifesto for this purpose
With the Internet Clean Manifest, Datacenter BIT calls on IT professionals to commit themselves to a safe, free and open internet with preservation of privacy. The manifesto focuses on three pillars: privacy, security and sustainability. As far as BIT is concerned, this is crucial to enable the Neth... Read more
SpaceX gets permission to launch another 7,518 satellites
SpaceX, the space company of Elon Musk, has received permission from the American Federal Communictions Commission to send another 7,518 broadband satellites into space. That's what Silicon Angle reports. The company already had permission to launch 4,425 satellites, as part of the Starlink project ... Read more
Oracle confirms: China Telecom led U.S. Internet traffic to
Oracles Internet Intelligence division today confirmed the findings of an academic research paper that accuses China of taking over the crucial backbone of the Internet from Western hands. China Telecom would hijack Internet traffic from the west and redirect it through its own infrastructure.
The r... Read more
Facebook Workplace will soon be completely separate from the social network
Like a number of other large companies, Facebook also offers a business communication platform. However, recent data leaks may be hampering the platform's growth. For this reason, the social network has decided to keep Facebook Workplace completely separate in the future.
CNBC reports this today on ... Read more
Mozilla Firefox stops supporting RSS and Atom in December
When Firefox 64 is released in December, the browser no longer supports RSS. Sister technology Atom will no longer be supported either. Mozilla came to this decision because the techniques would not be used enough to continue to support them.
That's what Gijs Kruitbosch, a software developer working... Read more
Cloudflare wants to prevent internet routing problems with RPKI
Cloudflare wants to use a new technology to prevent internet routing problems from occurring. By installing a new feature, resource public key infrastructure (RPKI), it becomes more difficult to divert Internet traffic, reports TechCrunch.
Internet routing is a fundamental part of how the Internet ... Read more