The Pigeon Express
A shipment of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite-internet dishes arrived in Ukraine on Monday, less than 48 hours after CEO Elon Musk announced the company would send support, according to a top official in the nation’s government. Ukraine digital minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who tagged Musk in a request on Twitter on Saturday, posted that Starlink was “here” […]
Russia has blocked Twitter and threatened to do the same with Facebook after a clash over “censorship”. Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor accused Facebook of violating “the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens”. Facebook said it had refused to stop fact-checking and labelling content from state-owned news organisations. Internet connectivity watchers at NetBlocks say there is […]
A French dad faces jail time and a hefty fine for using a signal jammer to prevent his kids from going online and taking the rest of a nearby town down with them. Starting at midnight and until 3:00am every day of the week, the French town of Messanges found that their cellular and Internet […]
SpaceX has lost dozens of satellites after they were hit by a geomagnetic storm a day after launch, causing them to fall from orbit and burn up. Such solar “storms” are caused by powerful explosions on the sun’s surface, which spit out plasma and magnetic fields that can hit the Earth. The company, owned by […]
Over the last few weeks of January the Internet in North Korea was observed to be down. The blackout of Kim Jong-un’s internet connectivity, although intermittent, was hugely disruptive with reports suggesting an “attack against North Korean servers took the entire country off the internet.” The timing of these attacks coincided with the latest bunch […]
Several Amazon.com Inc services, including Prime Video and applications that use Amazon Web Services (AWS), were down for thousands of users in the United States, while also affecting the company’s ability to provide regular updates on the outage. Amazon said on Tuesday that the outage was related to network devices, and linked to an application […]
Mr Goxx, a hamster popular for being a cryptocurrency investor has died. The rodent gained fame after his owners decided to convert his actions into real trading for the crypto market. The whole thing was started as a joke to highlight the randomness of success in cryptocurrency. Mr Goxx’s humans, two men from Germany, broke […]
Vax has been chosen as the word of the year by Oxford English Dictionary. The words related to vaccine have spiked frequency in 2021 due to Coronavirus, with double-vaxxed, unvaxxed and anti-vaxxer all seen surge in use. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) senior editor Fiona McPherson says vax was the obvious choice as it made ‘the […]
A widespread internet outage affected many popular websites.Visitors attempting to reach some sites received DNS errors, meaning their requests could not reach the websites.Affected services included Airbnb, UPS, HSBC bank, British Airways and the PlayStation network used for online games.One popular DNS provider, Akamai, reported “an emerging issue” with its Edge DNS service.It tweeted that […]
Elon Musk announced the Starlink satellite internet project in 2015. Through this project Musk hopes to launch a fleet of low orbiting satellites around Earth that would provide internet connectivity to any place on earth. “Starlink is ideally suited for areas of the globe where connectivity has typically been a challenge,” Starlink’s website says. The […]
The pandemic pushed offices and educational institutes virtual as ‘work from home’ and online classes became the new normal. This has resulted in some bizarre incidents. In one such incident, a university student was caught in the act with his partner during an online class. This incident was reported from Ho Chi Minh city of […]
A major internet blackout that hit many high-profile websites on Tuesday has been blamed on a software bug. Fastly, the cloud-computing company responsible for the issues, said the bug had been triggered when one of its customers had changed their settings. The outage has raised questions about relying on a handful of companies to run […]