APNIC chief scientist Geoff Huston has warned that unless something is done to protect the DNS root servers from the “Internet of Stupid Things”, DDoS attacks targeting DNS threaten to overwhelm defenses and cause an Read more…
Over the next five years, 10,000 new internet satellites from seven different consortia will be launched into orbit to deliver broadband services quite unlike what we have come to expect from satellite broadband up until Read more…
Security experts of all stripes appeared at a closed-door plenary session at the 2017 FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams) Regional Symposium for Asia-Pacific in Taichung, Taiwan to discuss the latest cybersecurity issues Read more…
On August 1 at 12:20 GMT the Bitcoin blockchain forked and a new coin, Bitcoin Cash, was born. The main blockchain continued as before, but the new branch promises to solve the congestion problem by Read more…
At 12:20 GMT tomorrow, Bitcoin will have witnessed the most hyped non-event in its recent history, the so-called User Activated Hard Fork (UAHF) that will give birth to a new coin called Bitcoin Cash. Last Read more…
Dtac has expressed concern over a lack of progress over the 2300-MHz partnership deal it won with state telco TOT two months ago. Speaking to reporters, Dtac SEVP chief corporate affairs officer Paradai Theeratada said Read more…
After nine months of politics, bickering, trolling, blocking, accusations and all-out warfare, the most significant upgrade to the Bitcoin network in recent times, SegWit, is now locked in and will soon activate. SegWit (a.k.a. Segregated Read more…
ITEM: NBTC Secretary-General Takorn Tantasith announced that the telecoms regulator is allocating 850- and 400-MHz spectrum to two high-speed rail projects. Dtac currently has 10 MHz of 850-MHz under a concession with state telco CAT Read more…
A bug in popular third-party Ethereum wallet Parity has caused three ICOs to be drained of their funds to the tune of over $32 million. The Parity bug in question meant that certain multi-signature wallets Read more…
The president of the Thailand Development and Research Institute (TDRI) think tank has slammed the government for promoting a paradoxical vision of Thailand 4.0 that calls for a knowledge-based economy yet stifles free flow of Read more…
The Bitcoin Fork Saga has taken yet another strange turn as some Chinese Bitcoin miners – hit hard by Bitcoin losing one third of its value – are now switching sides to the Bitcoin-Core team Read more…
The Thai government has invested $11.7 million (400 million baht) to turn the island of Phuket into a smart city, albeit one that takes a page from Orwell or Huxley. Phuket provincial governor Norapat Plodthong Read more…
With just days to go before its scheduled launch on July 14, Bitcoin1 – the corporate and Chinese-backed variant of Bitcoin – has suffered its first meltdown on testnet due to its demand for much Read more…
As MtGox’s CEO brings his “transaction malleability” defense to trial, the fight over Bitcoin’s capacity roadmap escalates and raises the issue of how to fix the transaction malleability bug – or whether it needs fixing Read more…
I have spent the last couple of days listening over and over a presentation by Craig Wright, the man whom the BBC claimed, citing secret proof, to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin in Read more…
Thailand’s National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) has almost unanimously (144 to 1) approved a report on recommendations to control social media that comes right out of an Orwellian dystopia and makes the most oppressive regimes Read more…
The temper tantrum by Thailand’s NBTC to force Facebook and YouTube to register themselves as OTT broadcasters has reached new levels with the regulator threatening to report Google and Facebook to the US Embassy and Read more…
ITEM: Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications will hit Facebook and YouTube hard – in the wallet – if they do not comply and register themselves as a broadcaster by July 22. The NBTC has summoned Thailand’s Read more…
The cryptocurrency space has been gripped by the ICO (Initial Coin Offering) craze, with many offerings raising tens of millions of dollars in minutes. But the success of ICOs has little to do with advancing Read more…
The recent Ethereum meltdown indicates that the profitability of mining is putting pressure on the blockchain to find a scaling solution – and soon. For all too many years the PC industry in Thailand, and Read more…
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