Google is 25 years old, and even with the rise of generative AI bots, it still dominates search. But in 1998, it was just another Silicon Valley garage project with big ideas and little credibility.

Policy has not kept pace with how essential cloud computing has become to critical systems. Cloud attacks, such as SolarWinds, aren't the only threat as evidenced | The cloud isn't just important for business, it's become vital, which means danger to the cloud is a danger to all of us.

A new study led by the University of Surrey and University of Cambridge has investigated how to release high-speed photonic sources using metal-halide perovskites. These are semiconductors being researched with LEDs for their excellent optoelectronic properties and low-cost processing methods.

I was a database administrator and developer for Adabas/Natural on IBM mainframes; Datatrieve Rdb on VAX/VMS; and the xBase database management system (DBMS) language family when I was much younger | Databases are hard to set up, administer and run, which is why database-as-a-service is exploding.

Is there room for another hyper-cloud company? | Akamai's known as a top content delivery network. Now, it wants to be a major cloud player as well.

Why has Ethernet endured as a ubiquitous data framing protocol over all these years?

Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. He got free content and free app development work and now he’s going around whining about how “we’re not in the business of giving that away for free.”

Reddit is making the moves to address priorities, including funding projects and achieving its goal of breaking even next year, Chief Executive Steve Huffman told employees.

All the world’s internet traffic is carried through optical fibers which are each 125 microns thick. These industry standard fibers link continents, data centers, mobile phone towers, satellite ground stations and our homes and businesses.

Graffiti is gradually disappearing from Britain's city streets as young men switch to using the internet to make a name for themselves as sub-cultural artists, new research says. The British Sociological Association's annual conference in Manchester heard today [Wednesday 5 April] that as a result of the move to sharing work on social media, "the rich kids of Instagram have killed the graffiti writer".

I've emailed the admin and haven't gotten a response in the last 4 days. I can't post and I can't comment (under comments it says "account not activated", along with "click on email activation link to participate" if I hover my cursor over it) I've also sent them a PM. Should I just wait longer for a response? Am I on some sort of black list? Are the admins being lazy and are not maintaining the site? What's going on? This is on hubski.com.

Since its launch in October 2016, microblogging social network Mastodon has been gaining ground, reaching 1 million users as of December 2017. To many it's the anti-Twitter. Though much like it in appearance and feature-set, Mastodon places greater emphasis on safety and privacy.

Ars chats with law philosopher Scott Shapiro about his new book, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing. Turing himself showed that perfect cybersecurity is impossible through the proof that he gave. It's easy to extend the proof just to see that among the problems that cannot be solved are finding bugs in computer programs.

A recent ruling against the Internet Archive for copyright infringement threatens a treasured and critical public institution: our libraries.

Today, business lives and dies by hyperscale cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. | These are the five most common causes of hyperscale cloud downtime.

A new report reveals that in 2022, 47.4% of all internet traffic came from bots, a 5.1% increase over the previous year.

There are more alternatives to Twitter in 2022 than ever before, including Amino, Post, Plurk, and Mastodon. Share your thoughts and connect with others with these Twitter alternatives.

The people who helped build today's open-source, cloud-native computing world talk about where we go from here.

You'll need both for your internet connection, but they do different jobs.