BRC Group Buys Sangoma and Gets Asterisk Thrown In
Through our Telegram group and our colleague Angel Elena Medina, we learned that BRC Group Holdings (NASDAQ:RILY) has just acquired Sangoma (owner…
SIPExer, the SIP Packet Sending Tool, Updated to Version 2.1.0
We have already talked about SIPExer, a console tool that is ideal for sending SIP packets to servers to run tests, check…
China Abandons Windows for Linux: Technological Sovereignty
A few months ago we wrote here about how France and Germany were starting to replace their Windows and Office 365 workstations…
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Switzerland Drops Microsoft 365 for Free Software: Digital Sovereignty Is No Longer an Experiment
A few days ago we wrote here about how China was accelerating its exit from Windows, citing national security reasons. Now it…
All Your Infrastructure Depends on a Third Party That Doesn’t Care About You
It doesn’t matter much that you work with the best cloud providers if, in the end, everything depends on the hardware underneath.…
Microsoft Open-Sources Comic Chat, the IRC Client That Turned Your Conversations Into a Comic
If you’re over thirty and spent some time on IRC in the late ’90s, Comic Chat will definitely ring a bell. Microsoft…
Number Range 400 for Sales Calls: an Operator’s Guide (BOE 2026)
In an earlier article we explained what the 400 prefix for commercial calls is and why it affects any user who receives…
Rustisk: what if Asterisk were written in Rust?
Rustisk is an experiment that rewrites Asterisk in Rust: over a million lines of C turned into ~204K of Rust, with its own SIP stack, memory safety and SIP 2-5x faster. Promising, but still far from production. We take a look.
HTTP/2 Bomb (CVE-2026-49975): The Attack That Takes Down a Web Server in Seconds From a Home PC
Our friend Carlos Ros has woken us up warned us via the Sinologic Telegram channel about a vulnerability that has been flying…
Are you a VoIP operator? Spain’s new customer service law requires a 24/7, 365-day support phone line
What the new Spanish Customer Service Law requires from telecommunications operators: human support, resolution within 15 working days, and 24-hour support for service outages.
AI, vibecoding and kids who can’t write by hand: the strange future we’re building
Vibecoding, 10x productivity, a generation that no longer writes without AI, and the uncomfortable question: where will the senior developers of the future come from?
Vosk vs Whisper Local: The Ultimate 2026 Guide to Self-Hosted Speech Recognition (STT)
Some time ago, a client asked me for an enhancement to their system so that their Asterisk could request certain personal data…