Category: Internet
How the internet is slowing down
Do you suffer from a slow internet connection? Well, it may get worse before it gets better. The BBC is reporting that networking giant Cisco says that web browsing speeds could slow over the next week or so as old hardware is upgraded to handle the growth of the internet. It says that the reason…
Police arrest man for running proxy servers
City of London anti-piracy police have arrested a man in Nottingham for running a proxy server. The 20-year-old from Nottingham is believed to have been running a proxy server that connected to addresses banned by service providers in the UK. Acccording to reports, the man was questioned and then released on bail. The arrest was…
Superfast broadband is on track in UK, says government
If you live in the UK and are still struggling with slow broadband, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The British government has announced that its rollout of superfast broadband has now reached more than one million homes and businesses across the UK. It said that its plan to roll out…
Like Google, Microsoft tips off police on child porn
Google isn’t alone in its scanning for child porn - Microsoft is also keeping its cyber-eyes peeled. The BBC reports that a tip-off from Microsoft has led to the arrest of a man in Pennsylvania who has been charged with receiving and sharing child abuse images. Microsoft informed the National Center for Missing and Exploited…
Is Google going to downgrade websites that don’t use encryption?
Google is looking at giving more prominent search rankings to websites that use encryption to promote better online security practices, according to reports. The Wall Street Journal says that Google is giving bonus points in its ranking algorithm to web pages that are encrypted. It says that Google hopes the move will prod developers to…
Russian hackers steal more than 1 billion usernames and passwords
A Russian cyber gang has stolen more than 1.6 billion internet username and password combinations, according to US security firm Hold Security – a company that specialises in finding breaches. Hold Security said that the gang – which it dubbed “CyberVor”, after the Russian word for thief, vor – had gathered confidential data from more than 500 million…
BT Openreach says ‘we’ll do better – promise’
BT Openreach – the phone and broadband company that we all love to hate – is promising to do better. Back in June, the UK telecoms giant was told by watchdog Ofcom that it could face fines if it did not meet new targets to repair its extensive UK telephone and broadband network. Under new…
IFTTT adds support for Android Wear, Nike+, Yo and others
Great news for users of the internet's biggest open secret, IFTTT: The company has added support for nine more channels. If you've not used "If This, Then That" - or IFTTT - before, then you should really sort that out as it could change your life. Essentially, what the clever service does is link together…
Twitter buys “deep learning” company Madbits
Does Twitter know everything? It soon might thanks to its acquisition of intelligence technology firm Madbits. Twitter users often joke about asking the "hive-mind" questions, but could Twitter soon have an actual hive-mind? (Umm, probably not). The company has built software that will analyse tweets to extract meaning and detail - meaning that Twitter will…
Unsympathetic Shoreditch “Tech City” workers campaign against “colonisation”
For the longest time, Shoreditch - the part of London just north of the City financial district - was run down and underdeveloped. It was perhaps one of the few places in central London that normal, working class people, might live. But then in the 1990s and continuing through the first decade of this millennium…
