Tech companies step up to bring free Wi-Fi to LA public housing residents

Imagine walking down the street, looking for a good cup of coffee. In the distance, a storefront glows in green through your smart glasses, indicating a well-reviewed cafe with a sterling public health score. You follow the holographic arrows to the crosswalk, as your wearables silently signal the self-driving cars to be sure they stop for your right of way. In the crowd ahead you recognize someon

On Tuesday, Apple unveiled four new iPhone 12 models bringing 5G to its smartphone line-up. The four models include the Apple iPhone 12 mini, Apple iPhone 12, Apple iPhone 12 Pro, and Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max. All of them support 5G wireless networks, which will be used when the operating system of the device determines it is required. For low-data requirements, it will drop to LTE 4G connectivity

Right now the California Public Utilities Commission and the California Broadband Council are collecting public comments to create the California Broadband Plan, per Governor Newsom’s Executive Order 73-20. The order’s purpose is to find a way to deliver 100 mbps-capable Internet connections to around 2 million Californians who lack access to at least one high-speed connection. These Californians

This post is the second in a series about our new State of Communications Privacy Laws report, a set of questions and answers about privacy and data protection in eight Latin American countries and Spain. The series’ first post was “A Look-Back and Ahead on Data Protection in Latin America and Spain.” The reports cover Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Panama, Peru, and Spain.

Birds that aren’t geostationary can tap Redmond’s Ground-Station-as-a-Service for all their downloading needs Ignite Microsoft has come up with a way to de-orbit data and land it in a cloud.…

As part of a planned switch to rspamd as our anti-spam system (well, our spam recognition system), I’ve been taking a closer look at how our test rspamd scores some email and what it reports about why. This has given me a new and unhappy view of DMARC in the real world, building on how DKIM looks for our ‘good’ email. So let me tell you a story, starting with the background. The university is now

People often ask us for an overview of how Tailscale works. Weve been putting off answering that, because we kept changing it! But now things have started to settle down. Lets go through the entire Tailscale system from bottom to top, the same way we built it (but skipping some zigzags we took along the way). With this information, you should be able to build your own Tailscale replacement except

Just over a year ago, we founded Tailscale with a common sense of nostalgia for the good old days of LANs. In our collective opinion (then and now) networking and cloud infrastructure has become too complicated. Attempts to increase team connectivity and migrate towards remote work results in a corresponding burden of security. This reduces productivity. Systems and approaches dont scale without s

Let’s be frank, all of us in the IT community live in a little bubble. We can listen to a colleague talk about how he’s set up his own VPN server, and even if most of us couldn’t do it ourselves (I thought a subnet mask was something found in shops with frosted windows), we get the gist of what he’s banging on about. We all speak geek. Out in the real world, things are different. Especially if you