The US Supreme Court has ruled that Cox Communications cannot be held liable for piracy by its internet service subscribers of songs owned by Sony Music ending their billion-dollar-plus music copyright lawsuit. The 9-0 ruling overturned a lower court’s decision to order a new trial to determine how much the ISP owed the record labels […]
Luxembourg-based SES has ordered 28 ’next generation’ meoSphere satellites from LA-based K2 Space in what is perhaps the satellite industry’s largest ever for medium-Earth orbit (MEO) satellites. The new fleet aims be operational by 2030 and will operate alongside the existing mPOWER satellites. An initial ‘pathfinder’ satellite will launch in the next few days as […]
Gcore, the infrastructure and software provider for AI, cloud, network and security solutions, has announced the findings of its Q3-Q4 2025 Gcore Radar report DDoS attack trends. The report reveals growing attack volumes, increasingly sophisticated tactics, and changes in attack locations driven by evolving botnet infrastructure. The DDoS attack landscape is at a clear inflection […]
The US has moved to ban new foreign-made consumer internet routers citing national security concerns. The decision, announced by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), adds consumer-grade routers manufactured outside the US to its list of restricted equipment, placing them alongside foreign-made drones, which were outlawed at the end of 2025. “Malicious actors have exploited security […]
A report from analysts at Quilty Space says that SpaceX’s Starlink broadband by satellite system has crossed 10 million subscribers and is now tracking toward $20 billion (€17.2bn) in 2026 revenue. “The business looks nothing like it did 18 months ago,” noted the report. Quilty forecasts that Starlink will achieve 16.8 million subscribers (up 33 […]
Namibia, with a population of some 3.1 million, is one of the planet’s most sparsely populated countries. Despite a possible need for better communications, it has denied SpaceX’s Starlink broadband service a licence to operate in the region. The denial appeared in a notice in the Southern African country’s government gazette. The notice, dated March […]
Hughes Network Systems an EchoStar company, together with Gogo, have announced two milestones in their partnership to advance in-flight connectivity for business aviation. Hughes has shipped more than 600 Hughes HDX and FDX electronically steerable antennas (ESAs) to support the Gogo Galileo platform and now more than 120 aircraft are flying worldwide with the system […]
Just days after criticising rival Elon Musk for the SpaceX plans to launch 1 million satellites suitable for operating orbital data-centres, Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin rocket launch business has applied to place 51,600 satellites into orbit. Bezos and Blue Origin call the scheme ‘Project Sunrise’ and as one critic pointed out: “’Project Sunrise’ […]
Zayo Europe is providing connectivity infrastructure for one of the UK’s largest AI and cloud computing data centre campuses, a multi-billion project being developed by QTS in Cambois, Northumberland. At completion, the project would help to cement the UK’s position as a global AI leader, forming a key part of the nation’s AI Growth Zone strategy which seeks to develop world-class AI and cloud computing capabilities. When fully […]
Space Compass and SWISSto12 have executed a procurement contract for the first GEO optical data relay satellite. This agreement represents a milestone toward the realisation of Space Compass’s optical data relay service. With high‑speed, high‑capacity optical data relay service, Space Compass aims to transform Earth Observation from just a tracking record into a real-time decision-making […]