When [Kenneth Keiter] took apart his Starlink dish back in November, he did his best to explain the high-level functionality of the incredibly complex device in a video posted to his YouTube channel. It was a fascinating look at the equipment, but by his own admission, he wasn’t the right …read more

12BoC On the third day of Christmas, the bork gods sent to me: petty angry user, flightless Windows signage , and a server they said had ceased to be . Welcome to the Twelve Borks of Christmas (12BoC): a collection of Register reader stories of amusing and frustrating tech sightings over the festive period.

We take a jaunt over the Atlantic for today's tale, from a reader Regomised as "Keith".

Our story takes place back in the days when modems were frequently found attached to dumb terminals. Keith and his team were responsible for supporting a fleet of the devices

Feature Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Gilmore said that the internet routed around censorship. But what if the net stopped being one big, connected thing? National governments are busy walling off their own sections, and in some cases changing the technologies that underpin it. What's more, they're not stopping at their own borders.

There are terms for this sliced-up internet, with rules that vary between countries. Some call it digital balkanisation. Others, like Julie Owono, call it the splinternet.

"It's an internet where free expression is suppressed and repressed," explains Owono, executive director of digital rights group Internet Sans Frontières

12BoC Ah, Christmas dos. Remember them? A chance to humiliate oneself in front of colleagues and make the odd drunken confession or two. Welcome to the tenth whoopsie of our Twelve Borks of Christmas (12BoC) series*

Register reader "James" (a pseudonym generated by Santa's Little Regomiser) recalls one that was blurted out over past Christmas lunches of a very well-known UK broadband provider concerning a cable modem whoopsie.

A call came through from the unfortunates staffing the first-line support: a customer was having some odd problems with their broadband, but nothing obvious was causing it. Ever service-focused, James called the

The New York Stock Exchange has reversed an earlier decision to delist China's three largest telecommunications companies.

Last Thursday the NYSE said it would delist China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom in order to comply with an executive action issued by President Trump in November. These delistings would happen as early Thursday, 7 January, although the bourse noted that affected businesses would have the right to appeal.

Issued on 12 November, Executive Order 13959 bans American individuals and institutions from purchasing securities in businesses deemed to be linked to the Chinese military, either directly or indirectly, by the Secretary