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…
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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.
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Prefix 400 for commercial calls in Spain: requirements, deadlines and how it affects users and operators (BOE 2026)
We now have the BOE that intends to regulate commercial calls once and for all. It’s the Resolution of 14 April 2026,…
What is IPv8: the protocol that solves IPv4 exhaustion without breaking what you have
IPv8 is a network protocol proposal published as an Internet-Draft at the IETF on 15 April 2026 that aims to replace IPv4…
GCVE: what it is and why Europe wants its own alternative to CVE
CVE needs no introduction. You’ve been using it daily for years: when you patch, when you review advisories, when you plug an…
France abandons Windows and migrates to Linux: 2.5 million civil servants, the largest migration in European history
France has just taken the most ambitious step any European government has ever made in the field of digital sovereignty: abandoning Windows…
Looking for a PBX alternative? Asterisk has changed a lot and Josua Colp explains it
If you have been following the world of VoIP PBX systems for a while, you have surely heard in recent months about…
OAC, the successor to Opus: what it is and why it matters
OAC (Open Audio Codec) is the new open-source audio codec developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) —the same alliance that…
The State of IP Telephony and VoIP in 2026: Between Artificial Intelligence and Free Software
The other day, someone asked in Sinologic’s Telegram channel whether we were still working with IP telephony or if everything was now…
Kamailio 6.1 Released
Kamailio 6.1.0 arrives with four new modules and a wide range of improvements that continue to consolidate the multi-threaded architecture introduced in…
France chooses Open Source to secure European Sovereignty.
According to many European media outlets, the French government has just announced its commitment to a business application suite created by the French administration itself. Published as free software, the move aims to avoid dependency on proprietary software from foreign companies and ultimately achieve European digital sovereignty. To this end, they are utilizing what they … France chooses Open Source to secure European Sovereignty.
Telecom services paralyzed after Nationwide Blackout
On April 28th, a general blackout occurred across all of Spain, and by extension, also in Portugal due to the proximity and…
What is IPv8: the protocol that solves IPv4 exhaustion without breaking what you have
IPv8 is a network protocol proposal published as an Internet-Draft at the IETF on 15 April 2026 that aims to replace IPv4…
GCVE: what it is and why Europe wants its own alternative to CVE
CVE needs no introduction. You’ve been using it daily for years: when you patch, when you review advisories, when you plug an…