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Build WebRTC Media Muscle

Spearline Testing

While WebRTC’s availability across all major browsers and on native clients for all major platforms is undoubtedly a good thing, the result is a massive disparity in media quality that hinges on issues of frame size, frame-rate, codecs, bitrate, latency, and transport protocols. Users’ internet quality. Let’s get to it. The tag-team.

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Plex patches media server bug potentially exploited by DDoS attackers

Tech Republic Security

All users of Plex Media Server are urged to apply the hotfix, which directs their servers to respond to UDP requests only from the local network and not the public internet.

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO Business Intelligence

When making decisions about network access, businesses need to be aware of and assess the security implications associated with network technology to help keep their digital assets protected. Cyber hygiene best practices include device security , cyber security education , and secure networking strategies.

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The Supreme Court showdown over social media “censorship,” explained

Vox

. | Alex Wong/Getty Images A rogue federal court effectively put the Republican Party in charge of social media, and now the justices have to deal with this mess. Missouri , would devastate a Democratic administration’s ability to ask media companies to voluntarily remove content. The Fifth Circuit’s opinion in NetChoice v.

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Who owns what in Big Media today

Vox

How to track which media company owns your favorite show — and why that may no longer be a media company. Also more complicated: Figuring out which media or tech conglomerate owns the rights to the shows and movies you want to watch. Yes, media companies continue to merge with and absorb each other. Media landscape.

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Facebook has stopped recommending Russian state media globally

The Verge

Meta has stopped recommending content by Russian state media to all users of Facebook, and soon Instagram, as the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine wages on. It’s unprecedented in terms of doing that to an official state media outlet, at least to my knowledge,” Katie Harbath, a former policy director at Facebook, told The Verge.

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Internet backbone provider shuts off service in Russia

The Verge

Cogent Communications, an internet backbone provider that routes data across intercontinental connections, has cut ties with Russian customers over its invasion of Ukraine, as first reported by The Washington Post. There isn’t any indication as to whether other internet backbone providers will also suspend services in Russia.