Slashdot Items Tagged "wifi"

Date / Time Story
Monday April 01, 2024 @04:15PM 'Smart Devices Are Turning Out To Be a Poor Investment'
Friday March 08, 2024 @07:35PM Google's Newest Office Has AI Designers Toiling In a Wi-Fi Desert
Tuesday February 13, 2024 @06:36PM Wi-Fi Jamming To Knock Out Cameras Suspected In Nine Minnesota Burglaries
Tuesday January 16, 2024 @05:26PM LG Washing Machine Found Sending 3.7 GB of Data a Day
Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:37PM iPhones Have Been Exposing Your Unique MAC Despite Apple's Promises Otherwise
Wednesday September 20, 2023 @12:17PM Amazon's Eero Max 7 Mesh Router Adds Wi-Fi 7 - For a Whopping $600
Thursday July 13, 2023 @09:24PM Li-Fi, Light-Based Networking Standard Released
Thursday April 27, 2023 @06:37PM Tokyo Has 20x As Much Wi-Fi As It Needs
Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:13PM A Welsh Brand of McDonald's Plays Classical Music, Rations Wi-Fi To Deter Anti-Social Behavior
Monday January 09, 2023 @06:33PM Apple Is Reportedly Making An All-In-One Cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Chip
Thursday January 05, 2023 @11:22AM Boost WIFI network rang
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @10:19AM WIFI CCTV Camera Price
Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:16PM Delta To Make Its In-Flight Wi-Fi Free
Monday December 19, 2022 @08:53AM iPad 10 WiFi + Cellular
Tuesday November 15, 2022 @12:55AM WiFi Temperature Sensors Important For Industries
Monday October 24, 2022 @06:37PM Comcast's New Higher Upload Speeds Require $25-Per-Month xFi Complete Add-On
Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:06PM How Wi-Fi Spy Drones Snooped On Financial Firm
Wednesday October 12, 2022 @04:57PM Android Leaks Some Traffic Even When 'Always-On VPN' Is Enabled
Wednesday September 28, 2022 @04:33PM Google Fiber Touts 20Gbps Download Speed In Test, Promises Eventual 100Gbps
Tuesday August 16, 2022 @03:49PM Court Upholds FCC's Decision To Reallocate Part of 5.9 GHz Band For Unlicensed Use, Including Wi-Fi
Monday August 01, 2022 @05:07PM Intel To Introduce Wi-Fi 7 In 2024 As Apple Plans Imminent Move To Wi-Fi 6E
Friday July 22, 2022 @05:57PM Chromebooks With Mobile Data To Act As Wi-Fi Hotspots
Friday May 06, 2022 @02:49PM Wi-Fi 7 Home Mesh Routers Poised To Hit 33Gbps
Friday April 01, 2022 @04:16PM Four Indigenous People Killed In 'Clash' With Venezuelan Military Over Wi-Fi
Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:44PM Amazon's Older Kindles Will Start To Lose Their Internet Access In December
Thursday July 08, 2021 @04:47PM More Cellphone Data Use Is Negatively Affecting Wi-Fi Performance, Study Finds
Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:47PM Alexa/Echo Owners Become Part of Amazon's Massive 'Sidewalk' Mesh Network By Default
Tuesday May 11, 2021 @09:15PM Tech Industry Quietly Patches FragAttacks Wi-Fi Flaws That Leak Data, Weaken Security
Monday January 11, 2021 @03:25PM D-Link Made a USB Adapter that Adds Wi-Fi 6 To Your Laptop
Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:07AM Wi-Fi's Biggest Upgrade in Decades is Starting To Arrive
Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:46PM FCC Takes Spectrum From Auto Industry In Plan To 'Supersize' Wi-Fi
Wednesday October 07, 2020 @02:50PM Five Bar and Cafe Owners Arrested in France For Running No-Log WiFi Networks
Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:10PM Amazon Brings Eero Mesh Wi-Fi To ISPs
Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:17PM New 'Spectra' Attack Breaks the Separation Between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
Thursday May 07, 2020 @05:03PM Comcast Resists Call To Open Home Wi-Fi Hotspots, Cites Potential Congestion
Tuesday April 28, 2020 @03:53PM Comcast Waives Data Cap Until At Least June 30 In Response To Pandemic
Thursday April 23, 2020 @02:46PM FCC Widens Wi-Fi Airwaves Access in Win for Facebook, Google
Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:23PM School District Deploys Over 100 School Buses Equipped With Wi-Fi For Students Without Internet Access
Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:22AM 6GHz Wi-Fi Access Could Boost Speeds and Generate $183 Billion By 2025, Study Says
Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:37PM FCC To Vote On Adding 6Ghz Band To Wi-Fi 6 To Improve Speeds
Wednesday April 01, 2020 @07:59PM California Governor Says 'We Need More Googles' As Company Offers Free Wi-Fi and Chromebooks To Students
Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:05PM Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open To Eavesdropping
Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:16AM Broadcom Announces BCM4389 Wi-Fi 6E Client Chipset
Tuesday February 11, 2020 @06:52PM One of the Most Destructive Botnets Can Now Spread To Nearby Wi-Fi Networks
Sunday February 09, 2020 @07:48PM Security Flaw in Android 8 and 9 'Lets Attackers Send Malware Over Bluetooth'
Friday January 31, 2020 @01:01PM Public Wi-Fi is a Lot Safer Than You Think
Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:47PM US Colleges Are Trying To Install Location Tracking Apps On Students' Phones
Tuesday December 17, 2019 @07:21PM FCC Funds 25Mbps, Data-Capped Satellite In Rural Areas
Saturday December 14, 2019 @10:09PM America's FCC Votes Unanimously To Divide 'Safety Spectrum' Into Wifi and Auto Applications
Thursday November 07, 2019 @05:25PM Amazon Ring Doorbells Exposed Home Wi-Fi Passwords To Hackers
Sunday October 06, 2019 @01:07PM Did MacOS Stop Allowing Changes to Wifi MAC Addresses?
Monday September 30, 2019 @07:57PM Woman Who Sleeps In $500 EMF-Blocking Sack Wants Area-Wide Wi-Fi Limits
Wednesday September 25, 2019 @05:37PM Amazon Sidewalk Is a New Long-Range Wireless Network For Your IoT Devices
Monday September 16, 2019 @07:39PM Faster Wi-Fi Officially Launches Today
Sunday August 04, 2019 @02:21PM New Vulnerabilities Found In WPA3 WiFi Standard
Wednesday July 17, 2019 @02:10PM Bluetooth Exploit Can Track and Identify iOS, Microsoft Mobile Device Users
Thursday June 20, 2019 @06:39PM Philips Hue Company Announces Lights That Beam Data At 250 Mbps
Wednesday May 29, 2019 @04:53PM IEEE Bans Huawei From Peer-Reviewing Papers, Chinese Scientists Quit To Protest
Friday May 24, 2019 @06:10PM Huawei Has Now Been Cut Off By the SD Association, Wi-Fi Alliance
Monday April 22, 2019 @12:45PM WiFi Finder, a Popular Hotspot Finder App, Exposed 2 Million Wi-Fi Network Passwords
Friday April 05, 2019 @05:01PM Airbnb Guest Found Hidden Surveillance Camera By Scanning Wi-Fi Network
Thursday March 07, 2019 @07:18PM PS4's Remote Play Update Lets You Stream To iOS Devices
Monday February 11, 2019 @07:21PM Amazon Is Buying Mesh Router Company Eero
Saturday February 09, 2019 @12:48AM Tesla Hacker Launches Open-Source Project 'FreedomEV' To Run On Rooted Teslas, Bring New Wi-Fi Hotspot and Anti-Tracking Features
Thursday January 31, 2019 @06:27PM Scientists Create Super-Thin 'Sheet' That Could Charge Our Phones
Friday January 18, 2019 @07:33PM Firmware Vulnerability In Popular Wi-Fi Chipset Affects Laptops, Smartphones, Routers, Gaming Devices
Thursday November 29, 2018 @05:47PM Starbucks Says It Will Start Blocking Porn On Its Stores' Wi-Fi In 2019
Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:52AM Qualcomm's New Wi-Fi Chips Are Meant To Rival 5G Speeds
Saturday October 13, 2018 @09:27PM Ask Slashdot: Can You Install a Wifi Mesh Network in a Barn?
Friday October 12, 2018 @04:52PM A Mysterious Grey-Hat Is Patching People's Outdated MikroTik Routers
Thursday September 27, 2018 @04:40PM Apple's Device Enrollment Program Can Leak Sensitive Data About Devices, Owners
Friday September 21, 2018 @07:09PM Amazon Is Making It Easier To Set Up New IoT Gadgets
Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:16PM MikroTik Routers Are Forwarding Owners' Traffic To Unknown Attackers
Monday August 27, 2018 @01:55PM Smart Tags Add Touch Controls To Ordinary Objects
Wednesday August 15, 2018 @05:58PM Police Bodycams Can Be Hacked To Doctor Footage, Install Malware
Wednesday August 15, 2018 @03:56PM Engineers Say They've Created Way To Detect Weapons Using Wi-Fi
Saturday August 11, 2018 @01:13AM New Wi-Fi Attack Cracks Many WPA Pre-Shared Key Passwords
Friday July 27, 2018 @03:06PM Teen Allegedly Broke Into a Couple's Home To Ask For Their WiFi Password, Police Say
Tuesday June 26, 2018 @10:06AM Wi-Fi Alliance Launches WPA3 Security Standard
Monday June 18, 2018 @04:29PM Android Messages Will Now Let You Send Texts From Your Computer
Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:34PM MIT's AI Uses Radio Signals To See People Through Walls
Friday June 08, 2018 @04:39PM WiFi Phishing Attacks Discovered Around Atlanta City Hall
Monday May 21, 2018 @08:16PM Comcast Website Bug Leaks Xfinity Customer Data
Monday May 14, 2018 @01:57PM Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi EasyMesh Certification Aims To Standardize Mesh Networks
Tuesday May 01, 2018 @08:11PM Researchers Want To Turn Your Entire House Into a Co-Processor Using the Local Wi-Fi Signal
Tuesday April 10, 2018 @04:58PM Google Is in Talks to Buy Nokia's Airborne Broadband System: Bloomberg
Monday February 26, 2018 @01:57PM Airbus, Delta, and Sprint Are on a Quest for In-Flight Wi-fi That Actually Works
Tuesday February 13, 2018 @08:28PM Seattle To Remove Controversial City Spying Network After Public Backlash
Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:21PM A Flaw In Hotspot Shield Can Expose VPN Users, Locations
Monday January 22, 2018 @05:33PM Android Can Now Tell You How Fast Wi-Fi Networks Are Before You Join Them
Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:13PM Google Releases Fix For Chromecast Wi-Fi Crashes
Tuesday January 16, 2018 @06:32PM Google Home and Chromecast Could Be Overloading Your Home Wi-Fi
Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:39AM Asus Is Turning Its Old Routers Into Mesh Wi-Fi Networks
Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:34PM Roombas Will Soon Build a Wi-Fi Coverage Map While They Clean
Thursday December 28, 2017 @12:17PM Postcard From Pyongyang: The Airport Now Has Wi-Fi, Sort of
Friday December 22, 2017 @05:21PM Airlines With the Best In-Flight Wi-Fi
Monday December 11, 2017 @06:26PM In-Store WiFi Provider Used Starbucks Website To Generate Monero Coins
Monday October 16, 2017 @12:06PM Microsoft Has Already Fixed the Wi-Fi Attack Vulnerability; Android Will Be Patched Within Weeks
Monday October 16, 2017 @10:09AM WPA2 Security Flaw Puts Almost Every Wi-Fi Device at Risk of Hijack, Eavesdropping
Wednesday September 20, 2017 @02:02PM Turning Off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in iOS 11's Control Center Doesn't Actually Turn Off Wi-Fi or Bluetooth
Sunday August 27, 2017 @01:08AM A Platoon Of Networked Self-Driving Trucks Will Be Tested in the UK
Monday July 24, 2017 @06:34PM iOS 11 Will Prevent Your iPhone From Automatically Connecting To Unreliable Wi-Fi Networks
Tuesday May 30, 2017 @04:51PM European Union Will Fund Public Wifi
Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:13PM Apple Patent Hints At Wirelessly Charging Your iPhone Via Wi-Fi Routers
Wednesday April 05, 2017 @07:44PM Android Devices Can Be Fatally Hacked By Malicious Wi-Fi Networks
Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:14PM Microsoft Is Killing Off Skype WiFi Service
Wednesday February 22, 2017 @05:32PM Disney Develops Room With 'Ubiquitous Wireless' Charging
Saturday February 18, 2017 @03:33PM RSA Conference Attendees Get Hacked
Wednesday January 11, 2017 @04:31PM JetBlue Giving All Passengers Free In-Flight 'Fly-Fi' High-Speed Wi-Fi
Tuesday January 03, 2017 @04:14PM Linksys Latest Company To Unveil a Wi-Fi Mesh System
Thursday December 22, 2016 @02:07PM Google's Free Wi-Fi in India Now Live in 100 Railway Stations; 15,000 New Users Connect to Web Everyday
Friday December 09, 2016 @03:26PM US Flight Regulators Consider Whether To Allow Or Bar In-flight Wi-Fi Calls
Thursday December 08, 2016 @07:58PM Transportation Department Proposes Allowing In-Flight Phone Calls
Saturday December 03, 2016 @12:54AM iOS's 'Activation Lock' For Stolen iPads And iPhones Can Be Easily Bypassed
Tuesday November 22, 2016 @05:32PM Hacker Explains How He Hacked Into Tel Aviv's Public Wi-Fi Network In Three Days
Tuesday November 22, 2016 @03:20PM Facebook's Latest Experiment: Helping You Find Free Wi-Fi Hotspots
Monday November 21, 2016 @11:18AM Microsoft Partners With D-Link To Deliver Speedier Wi-Fi in Rural Regions
Friday November 04, 2016 @02:55PM Man Who Named His Wi-Fi SSID 'Daesh 21' Prosecuted Under French Anti-Terror Law
Tuesday October 25, 2016 @09:44AM Wi-Fi Alliance Begins Certification Process For Short-Range Wireless Standard WiGig (802.11ad)
Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:39AM English Man Spends 11 Hours Trying To Make Cup of Tea With Wi-Fi Kettle
Friday September 23, 2016 @03:09PM Google To Introduce Google Wifi, Google Home and 4K Chromecast Ultra Devices On October 4th
Sunday September 11, 2016 @03:57AM Why Sys-Admins Are Disabling The Lights on WiFi Access Points
Thursday August 25, 2016 @04:12PM Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals To Unlock Their Wi-Fi
Monday August 22, 2016 @07:06PM BHU's 'Tiger Will Power' Wi-Fi Router May Be The Most Insecure Router Ever Made
Monday August 15, 2016 @01:16PM Google Fiber Is Changing Its Strategy as Costs Grow
Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:14PM Ad Board To Comcast: Stop Claiming You Have the 'Fastest Internet'
Thursday July 21, 2016 @12:55PM Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month
Thursday July 07, 2016 @05:23PM And the Lord Said, 'Let There Be Free Wi-Fi'
Thursday June 30, 2016 @04:08PM Netherlands Gets First Nationwide 'Internet of Things'
Monday June 27, 2016 @03:50PM Google Launches 'Project Bloks' Toys To Teach Kids To Code
Sunday June 05, 2016 @06:36PM Siemens Now Commands An Army Of Spider Robots
Thursday May 26, 2016 @04:19PM Millennials Value Speed Over Security, Says Survey
Friday May 20, 2016 @06:41PM Apple Opens First 'Next Generation' Retail Store
Friday May 20, 2016 @01:11PM Foul-Mouthed Worm Takes Control Of Wireless ISPs Around the Globe
Thursday May 12, 2016 @10:32AM Germany Set To End Copyright Liability For Open Wi-Fi Operators
Wednesday May 11, 2016 @12:25PM Microsoft Removes Wi-Fi Sense Feature From Windows 10 Which Shared Your Wi-Fi Password
Monday May 09, 2016 @03:45PM Opera Launches 'Free And Unlimited' VPN App For iOS
Friday April 29, 2016 @08:37PM Wireless Carriers To Adopt New Real-Time Text Protocol By December 2017
Thursday April 28, 2016 @06:43PM Google's OnHub Is First WiFi Router To Support IFTTT
Tuesday April 19, 2016 @02:09PM Americans Abandoning Wired Home Internet, Shows Study
Monday April 18, 2016 @11:02AM Researchers Develop Wi-Fi Chip With Twice as Capacity at Less Than Half the Size
Saturday April 16, 2016 @12:07AM New Full Duplex Radio Chip Transmits and Receives Wireless Signals At Once
Tuesday April 12, 2016 @04:35PM The Battle Between LTE and Wi-Fi May Have Left LTE-U Out In the Cold
Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:31PM A Fleet of Trucks Just Drove Themselves Across Europe
Tuesday April 05, 2016 @09:15PM Quanta LTE Router May Be Most Unsecure Router Ever Made
Monday April 04, 2016 @07:51PM Free Wi-Fi Program in Los Angeles Fails to Provide Free Wi-Fi
Monday April 04, 2016 @07:42PM Government-Funded Free WiFi Project Isn't Providing Much WiFi
Monday April 04, 2016 @11:41AM Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day
Monday April 04, 2016 @10:38AM The White House Finally Got Color Printers
Sunday April 03, 2016 @05:22PM MIT Develops Accurate System For Tracking People, Objects Via WiFi
Friday April 01, 2016 @07:05PM $40 Hardware Is Enough To Hack $28,000 Police Drones From 2km Away
Friday April 01, 2016 @10:17AM MIT Demos Wi-Fi That's So High-Tech It Doesn't Need a Password
Monday March 28, 2016 @08:27PM Microsoft Finally Ships $8,999 Surface Hub
Friday March 25, 2016 @08:21PM Amazon's Raspberry Pi Guide Lets Coders Build An Echo
Tuesday March 22, 2016 @04:11PM Major US Carriers Open Free Calls And Texts To Brussels
Monday March 21, 2016 @03:25PM Obama Lands In Cuba As First US President To Visit In Nearly A Century
Monday March 21, 2016 @09:22AM Rumor: Broadcom Phasing Out Wi-Fi Chip Business
Wednesday March 16, 2016 @09:20PM EU Court Says Hotspot Owners Aren't Liable For 3rd-Party Piracy
Saturday March 12, 2016 @01:35PM Wi-Fi Hotspot Blocking Persists Despite FCC Crackdown
Tuesday March 01, 2016 @01:27PM Microcasting Color TV By Abusing a Wi-Fi Chip
Wednesday February 24, 2016 @12:38PM FTC Forces Asus To Improve Router Security
Wednesday February 24, 2016 @11:03AM Researchers Make Low-Power Wi-Fi Breakthrough
Monday February 22, 2016 @08:50PM Airport Experiment Shows That People Recklessly Connect To Any Free Wi-Fi Spot
Thursday February 18, 2016 @11:35PM Good Riddance Payphones: NYC's Free Gigabit Wi-Fi Kiosks Go Live
Thursday February 18, 2016 @10:23AM TP-Link Begins Lockdown of Firmware In Response To FCC
Tuesday January 26, 2016 @01:00PM OpenWrt Turns a $14 Card Reader Into the Smallest Wireless AP
Sunday January 24, 2016 @01:19PM Netgear Nighthawk X8 AC5300 Router With Active Antennas Tested
Monday December 21, 2015 @04:31PM Israeli Firm Creates a Device That Can Hack Any Nearby Phone
Tuesday November 03, 2015 @09:12AM FCC Fines Another Large Firm For Blocking WiFi
Tuesday October 20, 2015 @12:44PM Tattling Kettles Help Researchers Crack WiFi Networks In London
Thursday October 15, 2015 @06:03PM Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle
Tuesday October 06, 2015 @12:54PM Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi
Thursday September 17, 2015 @01:52PM D-Link Accidentally Publishes Private Code Signing Keys
Friday August 28, 2015 @06:52PM Why In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Still Slow and Expensive
Saturday August 22, 2015 @06:24PM Why Google Wants To Sell You a Wi-Fi Router
Friday August 14, 2015 @09:57PM Can Cuba Skip Cell Phone Connectivity?
Friday August 14, 2015 @08:35PM New Rules From the FCC Open Up New Access To Wi-Fi
Thursday April 23, 2015 @01:46PM iOS WiFi Bug Allows Remote Reboot of All Devices In Area
Tuesday February 17, 2015 @11:12AM Flaw In Netgear Wi-Fi Routers Exposes Admin Password, WLAN Details
Friday February 06, 2015 @06:31PM Kickstarted Firefox OS HDMI Dongle Delayed, DRM Support Being Added
Monday January 26, 2015 @01:42PM For New Yorkers, Cablevision Introduces a Wi-Fi-Centric VoiP Network
Thursday January 15, 2015 @12:01PM Marriot Back-Pedals On Wireless Blocking
Thursday January 15, 2015 @11:41AM Pirate Activist Shows Politicians What Digital Surveillance Looks Like
Friday January 09, 2015 @09:49AM Asus Wireless Routers Can Be Exploited By Anyone Inside the Network
Tuesday December 30, 2014 @09:23AM Glowing Hobbit Sword Helps You Find Unsecured Wi-Fi
Tuesday December 23, 2014 @01:11PM Hotel Group Asks FCC For Permission To Block Some Outside Wi-Fi
Tuesday October 28, 2014 @08:21AM LAX To London Flight Delayed Over "Al-Quida" Wi-Fi Name
Monday October 13, 2014 @01:54AM Samsung's Wi-Fi Upgrades Promise Speeds Up to 4.6Gbps
Monday August 11, 2014 @11:45AM Connected Collar Lets Your Cat Do the War-Driving
Friday August 08, 2014 @03:34PM Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series?
Friday August 08, 2014 @02:52PM Russia Cracks Down On Public Wi-Fi; Oracle Blocks Java Downloads In Russia
Thursday August 07, 2014 @05:03PM The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router
Thursday August 07, 2014 @01:22PM Expensive Hotels Really Do Have Faster Wi-Fi
Monday June 16, 2014 @06:26PM Google Floats Balloons For Free Wi-Fi
Thursday June 05, 2014 @09:52AM Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport
Saturday May 31, 2014 @12:33PM Huawei Successfully Tests New 802.11ax WiFi Standard At 10.53Gbps
Friday April 25, 2014 @08:57AM Google Mulling Wi-Fi For Cities With Google Fiber
Thursday April 17, 2014 @04:18PM Ask Slashdot: Which Router Firmware For Bandwidth Management?
Saturday April 12, 2014 @01:00PM Wi-Fi Problems Dog Apple-Samsung Trial
Friday March 21, 2014 @08:48PM WPA2 Wireless Security Crackable WIth "Relative Ease"