Internet

American Airlines to equip more than 500 narrow-body jets with Starlink Wi-Fi from 2027

Airlines around the world have rushed to equip their fleet with faster and more reliable in-flight Internet to win customers

Millions of people inside Iran have relied on virtual private networks or been steered towards domestic, state-controlled alternatives.

Iran signals potential easing of Internet blackout amid US talks

Iranians have faced two separate episodes of severe digital isolation this year

Companies that rely on computing power and data processing, Lumen CEO Kate Johnson said, can no longer take their physical network capabilities for granted.

Lumen CEO says AI bots are taking over the Internet

The company handles 65 per cent of global Internet traffic

The show floor buzzword at tech event CES was “physical AI” and robotics. Consumer devices felt like afterthoughts; the real audience was data-centre buyers.
THE BROAD VIEW

Tech as we know it is dead

To survive the next decade, we must torch our own playbooks before the market does

The figures represent the first government data on compliance and suggest platforms are taking significant steps to adhere to a law that could see them fined up to US$33 million for non-compliance.

Australia social media ban hits 4.7 million teen accounts in first month

The country’s regulator said the measure has had a swift and sweeping impact

Mankind has moved from linking computers in the first phase of the Internet to linking everyday objects. In the next phase, global information systems would be hooked up to human organs.

The ‘Internet of Beings’ is not too far away

Digitising our bodies has vast implications on healthcare, but also our humanity

Huge international industrial, shipping, finance, banking and telecommunications firms all have an enormous stake in a secure and highly functioning Internet.

The underwater cables that carry the Internet are in trouble

If they are damaged, it would weaken transportation grids and disrupt communications between nations, among other issues

AWS is the world’s largest cloud provider, followed by Microsoft’s Azure and Alphabet’s Google Cloud.

Amazon says AWS cloud service is back to normal after outage disrupts businesses worldwide

The disruption was the largest since last year’s CrowdStrike malfunction hobbled technology systems in hospitals, banks and airports