Microsoft and AWS have launched matching preview services for private connectivity between Azure and AWS, replacing a traditionally complex collection of circuits, routers, and routing sessions with a managed intercloud link. The service is available now in four regions at up to 1 Gbps per connection, while Microsoft plans to support connections of up to 100 Gbps when it reaches general availability.

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AWS has opened AWS Interconnect — multicloud to Microsoft Azure customers in public preview, giving them an on-demand way to connect private workloads across the two clouds without assembling and operating a custom network. The service is initially limited to four regions, but AWS says it will expand availability.

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What is the UniFi Travel Router LR? The UniFi Travel Router Long-Range, or UTR-LR, is a compact $99 travel router designed to provide a private, managed network when using hotel, rental property, office or other shared internet connections. It joins the existing $79 UniFi Travel Router rather than replacing it, retaining the same general platform […]

Grok Bot is testing controls that could copy authenticated Chrome sessions into its cloud computer and route the agent’s traffic through the user’s desktop. The combination would reduce repeated logins and data-center blocking, but it would also place more of a user’s active browser identity inside a shared cloud environment.

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Self-hosted email has fallen from 44.6% of the top million domains in 2016 to just 22.4% in 2026, while Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 now account for 38.6% of detectable MX records. The shift gives two providers growing influence over mail delivery, filtering, outages, and authentication policies.

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Norway’s shared government infrastructure has suffered a DDoS attack two to three times larger than recent incidents, leaving ten public digital services unstable for more than 30 hours. The assault disrupted ID-porten, MinID, Altinn, e-signing and other systems used for tax, welfare, health-care and government transactions, but investigators found no evidence of unauthorized access or personal-data theft.

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A New Pocket Travel Router on the way – The Mango 2 Revealed I have followed GL.iNet’s travel routers for years, but many of its recent models have become increasingly powerful, expensive and physically larger. The newly revealed Mango 2 (GL-MG1300) takes the opposite approach, returning to the small and relatively affordable format of the […]

Wi-Fi 7’s mandatory WPA3 security is exposing a new compatibility problem: the workaround designed to keep older clients connected requires support that many devices do not have. CableLabs is urging access-point, chipset, and client manufacturers to prioritize WPA3-Personal Compatibility Mode before more home networks encounter devices that suddenly cannot connect.

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Cisco has added four critical Crosswork vulnerabilities to the five Secure Workload flaws already requiring updates, bringing this security review to nine vulnerabilities overall. Five receive the maximum CVSS score of 10.0, including SQL injection, missing authentication, and access-control issues.

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Citrix is urging customers to patch two new NetScaler vulnerabilities after a recent wave of in-the-wild attacks against other NetScaler flaws highlighted the risk of delaying updates. CVE-2026-19490 can enable unauthenticated authentication bypass on certain Gateway and AAA virtual server configurations, while CVE-2026-19489 can cause denial-of-service conditions.

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Microsoft has published a detailed Windows 11 Delivery Optimization guide that could significantly reduce internet traffic during update and app rollouts. The recommended baseline expands local caches, keeps peer discovery on the LAN, and uses deployment rings so a small group of devices seeds content before larger waves begin.

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Windows 11 Beta build 26220.9202 gives the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) a practical upgrade: it can now reuse eligible Wi-Fi profiles saved in the main operating system, including supported certificate-based networks. The Windows 11 25H2 build also speeds up File Explorer Home, removes WMIC and Drag Tray, and delivers several reliability fixes.

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Windows 11 Insider build 26220.9202 gives the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) access to eligible Wi-Fi profiles saved in the main operating system, including supported certificate-based networks. The change removes a major obstacle for connected recovery tasks and is expected to reach Windows 11 version 26H2 later this year.

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10 WAYS that NAS is Getting Screwed Over the past 18 to 24 months, the consumer and prosumer Network Attached Storage (NAS) market has undergone a noticeable shift in design priorities, hardware architecture, and software accessibility. While broader industry pressures—ranging from component supply constraints to shifting manufacturing priorities—have introduced genuine engineering challenges, many recent market […]

UniFi Travel Router UTR 6 Months Later Review When the UniFi Travel Router, or UTR, first arrived around 6 months ago, it was Ubiquiti’s first proper attempt at a dedicated travel router. It was a small, USB-C powered device designed to sit between your devices and whatever internet connection was available at the time, whether […]

GL.iNet Flint 4 First Look: What Has Emerged So Far I first saw the GL.iNet Flint 4 at CES 2026, but information about the router became relatively limited in the months that followed. GL.iNet has now formally presented the Flint 4, also known as the GL-BE14000, as an upcoming tri-band Wi-Fi 7 router aimed at […]

GL.iNet Comet X KVM Early Review, Teardown and Testing The GL.iNet Comet X GL-RM4PE is a 4-port hardware KVM designed to manage several computers or servers from 1 central device. It connects directly to the HDMI and USB interfaces of up to 4 client systems, allowing the user to switch between them remotely through a […]

Is Synology Moving Away From Routers? Synology is still best known for NAS hardware, DSM, backup software, private cloud storage, surveillance, and business data management, but its router range has always been an interesting side branch of the wider ecosystem and one that I have genuinely enjoyed reviewing. Products such as the RT2600ac, MR2200ac, WRX560 […]

New Beelink ME Pro Coming (with Intel Core i5-13420H, AMD Ryzen 7 H 255, and AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370) The Beelink ME Pro series has officially expanded, shifting the lineup from its original low-power origins into a high-performance compact computing platform that blurs the line between a mini PC and a traditional NAS. […]