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AI appears to be hackers’ tool of choice
Social engineering attacks increase
Researchers from Darktrace have seen a 135 per cent increase in novel social engineering attack emails in the first two months of 2023.
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Lost, internet down, blame the Sun
Holy sun Batman
If your Internet and phone service is pants today it might have something to do with a triangular-shaped dark gap in the sun's surface that's 20 times larger than Earth.
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Openreach jumps fibre hurdle
Rutland was a milestone
UK broadband network provider Openreach has crossed a 'huge milestone' in its upgrading of the nation's broadband infrastructure, with ultrafast Full Fibre connections now available to 10 million homes and businesses.
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Germany surrenders to US and might ban Huawei and ZTE
Could force operaters to replace them
Germany's government is planning on forbidding telecoms operators from using certain components from Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE in their 5G networks.
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Vodafone puts Raspberry into 5G network
Raspberry Pi 4 PC with 5G onboard
Vodafone has revealed a prototype for a portable 5G network based around a cheap and cheerful Raspberry Pi 4 PC combined with a small 5G software-defined radio (SDR) from a company called Lime Microsystems.