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- Comment on Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's wounds 1 day ago:
He promised many things. Liars gonna lie.
- Comment on The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US 3 days ago:
Friggin verge and their paywall. Here’s the text. Sorry for the poor formatting.
The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the USThe US claims foreign-made routers pose national security risks. by Sean Hollister
Mar 23, 2026, 6:47 PM EDT
is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. In December, the Federal Communications Commission banned all future drones made in foreign countries from being imported into the United States, unless or until their maker gets an exemption. Now, the FCC has done the exact same for consumer networking gear, citing “an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States and to the safety and security of U.S. persons.”
If you already have a Wi-Fi or wired router, you can keep on using it — and companies that have already gotten FCC radio authorization for a specific foreign-made product can continue to import that product.
But since the vast majority — if not all — consumer routers are manufactured outside the United States, the vast majority of future consumer routers are now banned. By adding all foreign-made consumer routers to its Covered List, the FCC is saying it will no longer authorize their radios, which de facto bans new devices from import into the country.
Now, router makers need to A) secure a “conditional approval” that lets them keep getting new products cleared for US entry while they work to convince the government that they’ll open up manufacturing in the US, or B) make the decision to skip selling future products in the US, like dronemaker DJI already did.
Like with the foreign drone ban, the FCC has a National Security Determination that it says justifies these actions, one which claims that “Allowing routers produced abroad to dominate the U.S. market creates unacceptable economic, national security, and cybersecurity risks,” and that “routers produced abroad were directly implicated in the Volt, Flax, and Salt Typhoon cyberattacks which targeted critical American communications, energy, transportation, and water infrastructure.”
“Given the criticality of routers to the successful functioning of our nation’s economy and defense, the United States can no longer depend on foreign nations for router manufacturing,” reads another passage.
It is true that a great many router vulnerabilities have surfaced over the years, which make them a popular target for hackers and botnets. It is also true that one China-founded company, TP-Link, is dominant in the US consumer market; US authorities had previously considered a specific TP-Link ban due to that dominance and national security concerns. (TP-Link has been attempting to distance itself from China, splitting off from the Chinese entity in 2022, establishing a global headquarters in California in 2024, and suing Netgear in 2025 for suggesting that TP-Link had been infiltrated by the Chinese government.)
It is not clear how simply moving production of routers domestically would make them safer. In the Volt Typhoon hack, Chinese state-sponsored hackers primarily targeted Cisco and Netgear routers, routers designed by US companies, according to the Department of Justice. They were vulnerable because those US companies had stopped providing security updates to the specific targeted routers, which had been discontinued by those companies.
While the FCC’s Covered List makes it sound like the US is banning all “routers produced in a foreign country,” it’s defined a bit more narrowly than that. It’s specifically banning “consumer-grade routers” as defined in NIST Internal Report 8425A, which refers to ones “intended for residential use and can be installed by the customer.”
“Virtually all routers are made outside the United States, including those produced by U.S.-based companies like TP-Link, which manufactures its products in Vietnam,” reads part of a statement from TP-Link via third-party spokesperson Ricca Silverio. “It appears that the entire router industry will be impacted by the FCC’s announcement concerning new devices not previously authorized by the FCC.”
Update, March 23rd: Clarified how TP-Link has distanced itself from China, and added company statement.
- Comment on The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US 3 days ago:
That’s just not true. Bigotry and conspiracy theories are also produced there, and I read they’re among the top exporters.
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally getting a movable taskbar 6 days ago:
the feature that literally every other OS has had since the 90’s
Macos over here all shifty eyed.
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally getting a movable taskbar 6 days ago:
From the start… Get it? Start?
I’ll show myself out.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 1 week ago:
But would they be a disappointment or would you be disappointed in them? Meaning: should they cease to exist, or should their actions cease to exist? Maybe I’m looking at it wrong, but, to me, that’s the difference between “being a disappointment” and “bring disappointing”.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 1 week ago:
real life doesn’t really do dialog like that.
It with great sadness that I report to you, that real life does, in fact, dialog in this exact fashion at times.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 1 week ago:
No. That’s a terrible name!
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 3 weeks ago:
I’m assuming you’re in the USA. If this a correct assumption, then you’re not in a democracy, strictly speaking; but a republic.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations | OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 1 month ago:
Invite them over for a home served meal, Mrs. Doubtfire style lol
- Comment on Windows 11 has a new Start menu — here's how to unlock it 1 month ago:
My VP’s gram laptop has this by default. It sucks. It looks like Windows 11 start menu had an offspring with Windows 8, and it’s just as effective.
- Comment on Windows 11 has a new Start menu — here's how to unlock it 1 month ago:
KOOLER STUFF menu activated!
- Comment on Nearly a thousand Google workers sign letter urging company to divest from ICE, CBP 1 month ago:
Google employs 183,323 full-time employees. This means that nearly 0.5% of their workforce signed the letter. That’s barely enough to count as a blip to google. What kind of world is this?
- Comment on Meet UpScrolled, the anti-censorship TikTok alternative 1 month ago:
It’s a centralized platform. The exact same thing that happened to TikTok will, in time, happen to upscrolled. These people are running from the Schutzstaffel to the Sturmabteilung and expecting different outcomes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s crazy to me that people don’t know this. But, then again, most people don’t know the first thing about how their computers run. They don’t need to know, I guess.
- Comment on Some PCs are failing to boot after this month's Windows Update 1 month ago:
They need to make up their dogon minds!
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 1 month ago:
Exactly! It’s not some Tesco bulb, this bulb will last a while. It hasn’t burnt yet. People. I swear lol
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Where’s the article? This is just a title and image.
- Comment on Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar 3 months ago:
Best. Movie. Ever.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 3 months ago:
It’s not necessary, since then it would not be a jury of his peers.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it 3 months ago:
That’s only one line.
- Comment on The future is now. I generated this on the AI Horde, then converted it into a 3d model and printed it! 3 months ago:
Ah. Makes sense. Are you able to point me any resource? I found 2.0 on (what looks to me to be) their official site, but you had said 3.0.
- Comment on The future is now. I generated this on the AI Horde, then converted it into a 3d model and printed it! 3 months ago:
Cool use of ai!
I don’t see the Hunuan model on the AI Horse site. Is it on there and I’m just blind, or is it elsewhere?
- Comment on 4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate 3 months ago:
Lol. I came here to say that this sounds like enterprise, and see their name on your first sentence. Sorry you’re going through that, mate. They suck.
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 3 months ago:
They’ll lower if you threaten, but not usually to new customer price. And spectrum and twc do the same shit. They all need to be disbanded.
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 3 months ago:
Only if you’re closed for 30+ days. And then you have to accept increases every year.
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 3 months ago:
Never said they weren’t. All I said was that it was a US company thing to do what they did.
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 3 months ago:
That’s a US company thing. Maybe in other countries, too. But definitely a US company thing.
