Month: February 2025
China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds
Dell’Oro group issues latest Broadband Access & Home Networking 5-Year Forecast Report Amongst its findings was the focus of Chinese telcos on FTTR (fiber to the room) and 50Gbps PON deployments 50G is a relatively new technology, and I’ve been surprised by the speed at which this is rolling out…
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Longer-lasting laptops: the modular hardware you can upgrade and repair yourself
The goal, Patel says, is to continuously cycle through all of Framework’s actively supported laptops, updating each of them one at a time before looping back around and starting the process over again. Functionality-breaking problems and security fixes will take precedence, while additional features and user requests will be lower-priority.…
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Chinese hackers develop effective new hacking technique to go after business networks
Security researchers observe Chinese attackers targeting network appliances The code grants them persistent access and a number of different operations Hackers could grab system details, read sensitive user data, and more Chinese hackers have been seen targeting network appliances with malware which gave them persistent access and the ability to…
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The leaked Sonos streaming box could be a huge hit for custom home theaters, if it adds 2 key missing features from the current line-up
The big features of Sonos’ upcoming streaming box have leaked, and they sound pretty damn great, actually. The key elements are that it will have multiple HDMI passthrough ports and will act as an HDMI switch, that it will have a comprehensive range of streaming services in a unified interface,…
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A reviews site embroiled in AI scandal is back from the dead
Last summer, the staff at Gannett’s consumer reviews site Reviewed received terrible news: the media giant was shuttering the entire vertical and would be laying off dozens of employees. Effective November 1st, Reviewed would cease operations. Gannett blamed Google’s changing search algorithm, which had “degraded [its] business model.” The shuttering…
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OpenAI is getting a makeover – new visual rebrand for ChatGPT maker even includes its own custom font
OpenAI gets a fresh new look, centered around its own OpenAI Sans font Rebrand has apparently been a work-in-progress for more than a year However ChatGPT was barely used for the redesign Ten years after the company was founded, OpenAI has revealed a total rebrand with updated logos and fonts…
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