Omnispace and Lacuna team up on global satellite LoRaWAN coverage

Washington DC based satellite 5G provider Omnispace is working with Dutch satellite IoT company Lacuna Space to offer “global” LoRaWAN coverage for IoT solutions. The service will employ the LoRaWAN protocol to support direct-to-satellite communications for a broad range of IoT devices. The pair called it a “first-of-its-kind, global, open standards-based IoT network”.  The service…

Popular NPM Package Updated to Wipe Russia, Belarus Systems to Protest Ukraine Invasion

In what’s yet another act of sabotage, the developer behind the popular “node-ipc” NPM package shipped a new version to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, raising concerns about security in the open-source and the software supply chain. Affecting versions 10.1.1 and 10.1.2 of the library, the changes introduced undesirable behavior by its maintainer RIAEvangelist, targeting…

Ookla finds Starlink now averages over 100 Mbps

Research from Ookla finds that Starlink now averages over 100 Mbps in 15 countries. The results, from Q4 2021, suggests that SpaceX’s satellite system continues to beat median fixed broadband speeds in most locations: Starlink Fixed Broadband Australia 141.55 51.35 Austria 131.84 50.33 Belgium 155.15 76.94 Canada 106.64 96.39 Chile 118.95 168.92 France 102.15 75.47…