Qualcomm wants Wi-Fi 8 to work when everything goes wrong
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No more dropped packets, roaming flops, and latency hell

Qualcomm is leading a new crusade to make Wi-Fi suck less in the real world.

Thousands of ASUS routers backdoored without malware
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GreyNoise and Sekoia warn 

Thousands of ASUS routers have been  compromised with persistent backdoors in what appears to be a sophisticated campaign aimed at laying the groundwork for a future botnet, according to threat researchers at GreyNoise and Sekoia.io.

Starlink suffers massive outage
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Tens of thousands lose service

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet was hit by a major outage, knocking tens of thousands of users offline just as the company celebrated a key milestone in its partnership with T-Mobile.

French beginning to surrender on ADSL
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Three-quarters of French internet now runs on fibre

Optical fibre has taken over the French broadband market, with three out of four internet subscriptions now delivered over fibre connections, according to figures released by telecoms regulator ARCEP.

Huawei crows over China’s FTTR lead
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Ultra-connected workforce

Huawei chair Xu Zhijun [pictured] reckons China’s fibre-to-the-room rollout is leaving the rest of the world in the dust.