1+ hour, 1+ min ago   (350+ words) Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying. A prominent US senator is asking the National Security Agency to provide guidance to the general public on best practices for using virtual private networks to secure their…...

1+ day, 12+ min ago   (813+ words) Carrier scorecards may include call-blocking stats and data on customer complaints. The Federal Communications Commission today said it will create a robocall mitigation scorecard to rate phone companies on how effectively they block illegal spam calls. The scorecards could include…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (670+ words) What can we learn from a BGP hijacking that poisoned production software? Plenty. Hackers carried out a supply-chain attack that installed malware on networks using unusual technique: hijacking a chunk of Internet space used to update cloud-management software used by…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (231+ words) New features are rolling out across the Android ecosystem starting today. This information will be logged in Find Hub, which has thus far been used for locating phones, earbuds, and tracker tags. You can ask Gemini to recall that information…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (193+ words) You’ve read the stories. Now check out our forums. If you’re like many of our readers, you’ve got Ars Technica bookmarked and hit the front page a few times a day. But for others, a compelling story is what brings…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (272+ words) In exchange for free stuff, devices make home connections part of a proxy network. “Our researchers found that these residential proxy networks are not simply monetization tools,” Plume researchers wrote. “They are actively being used as a target for additional…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (653+ words) Meta to impose daily limit on child social media use in deal with nearly every state. Meta agreed to impose daily limits on children’s social media use and pay nearly $18 billion in settlements with nearly every US state today, cutting…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (239+ words) The private Android-based OS will expand beyond Pixels next year. Several months ago, Motorola and the makers of GrapheneOS announced a team-up that would expand support for the privacy-centric OS to beyond Google’s Pixel phones. The announcement, however, was bereft…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (703+ words) FCC decides 1Gbps is too fast, standard must be “technologically neutral.” In 2024, the FCC raised its broadband benchmark to 100Mbps downstream and 20Mbps upstream, setting the new standard by which to judge whether deployment is reasonable and timely. The FCC at the time…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1047+ words) Google’s new Pixels make some compromises but still manage to be good phones. Just like last year’s Pixel 10 series, Google’s 2026 lineup includes three flat phones and one foldable. The flat Pixels are the same size, and even side-by-side, it’s hard…...