Niche ISP Hyperoptic, which does pretty well for itself from wiring up blocks of flats with  FTTH links that provide internet speeds hitting the 1Gbps dream speed, has secured £50m in cash to help spread its super-superfast internet dream across the more densely populated bits of the UK. Read More >>

Just in case you needed telling, all the fancy TV guide stuff that Microsoft showed during its depressingly softcore Xbox One launch won't work when it hits the UK. While Microsoft is "anticipating a global launch over time" of its telly system, the required media deals and masses of work needed to get it running, plus our reliance on crappy SD Freesat boxes, mean you can forget all about it for the time being. [CVG] Read More >>

We now have a firm answer regarding Xbox One's curious internet needs. Xbox One does not require an "always-on" internet connection to function if you're playing alone, but it does need to "phone home" once a day to check licensing information and keep your games working. A bit like the massive Sky box it is. Read More >>

Along with whether or not the Internet is 98 per cent porn, figuring out the correct pronunciation of GIF is one of the earliest questions of the Internet. I grew up believing it was hard-G GIF. Most people I know pronounce it like that too. Even the White House agreed on pronouncing GIF like 'gift'. But we have to re-evaluate the whole argument again because the inventor of GIF — PAPA GIF Steve Wilhite — says its pronounced JIF. What. The. Hell. Read More >>

For the most part, we're all happy if we can get Internet that's fast enough to stream some HD video. But faster is always better, and a new, world-record setting network developed in Germany is so blazing fast you wouldn't know what to do with it. It can deliver 10 HD films in a second. Read More >>

GIFs are great. Everyone loves GIFs. But even the crown jewel of the internet could use a little update now and again if we want to keep things exciting. Which is why we would like to introduce you, the uninitiated, to the aptly named Reverse Gif. Warning: abandon a working browser, all ye who enter here. Read More >>

The demand for "real time" streaming media is pushing ISPs like never before, with new stats claiming an average 40 per cent of all peak internet traffic in Europe is generated by demand for music and video streams. And in some countries it accounts for as much as half of all network traffic. Read More >>

Last week, Syria completely disappeared from the Internet, and not for the first time either. Since then, it poked its head back out into cyberspace, but not for long; Google's Transparency Report is showing that it's gone again. Read More >>

Firing its first salvo into the broadband price war, Tesco's carved the arse out of its broadband fees, bringing them all the way down to just £2 a month for 12 months. Even better, if you're a Tesco Mobile customer, you can bag the same for absolutely free, well, plus line rental. Read More >>

Getting bummed 'cos you're only getting 80Mbps on your fibre-optic broadband line? Well, there's no need to do a Hyundai yet, because researchers reckon that we're only using around half of fibre's capacity at the moment, leaving a whole 'nother chunk of bandwidth ready for the advent of 4K 'movies'. Read More >>

You love the Internet. You're not alone, obviously. That guy in the cubicle next to you is on the Internet too. That girl checking her email while walking down the street loves the Internet too. Your mum who messages you on Facebook, yeah, she's on it too. Everybody uses the Internet. But what is the Internet, a drug that everyone takes, doing to our brains? Read More >>

As the country has done before, Syria cut off the Internet for all its citizens yesterday. As in all Internet access has completely disappeared. Google's Transparency Report, which shows traffic to Google, reveals that Syria pretty much no longer exists on the Internet. Read More >>

This might be the biggest tech humblebrag ever. A team of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs has quietly shrugged its shoulders and admitted to the fact that, yeah, it's been using quantum internet for, like, the last two years. Whatever. Read More >>

Last autumn, the Internet Archive celebrated a massive milestone, as the "online Library of Alexandria" reached 10 Petabytes of stored information. Yes, that means 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes accessible to anyone. Wow. Read More >>

One of the big problems with the whole connected-house thing, where thermostats talk to light swtiches which talk to tea-making robots (if only!), is that there's a lot of communication protocols, and most of them are proprietary. But never fear, a new standard's been agreed on: erm, Faccebook Messenger. Read More >>