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In a paper published late in 2025, Østergaard and colleagues reported on their examination of almost 40 psychiatric referrals across Denmark that implicated AI chatbots in harmful interactions, including suicidal thoughts, eating disorders, and fostering delusions

 


Since its deployment in 2011, the adoption of RPKI by Internet Service Providers has shown continuous growth, a trend that persists to this day. As this growth continues it is important to measure its effect on BGP stability.

 


AI companies, AI influencers and famous professors have been making extraordinary claims for years about AI.

 


A robotic system that can produce a rubbery pancake is a true technical and logistic achievement, but why all this work to automate the production of mediocrity?

 


The greatest risk we face today isn’t that AI is becoming “too smart”; it’s that we are beginning to treat this technology as an infallible “oracle” rather than a capable, yet fundamentally fallible, “intern.”

Best of the Hedge: Episode 15, Supporting Open Source


 
Many companies rely on open source, regardless of whether or not they realize it. In this best of the Hedge episode, Alistair Woodman joins Russ White and Tom Ammon to talk about not only why you should support the open source projects you use, but how you can.
 
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Reposting a classic episode this week because I was out of town and didn’t get around to editing an episode.

Worth Reading 060526


 


A BBC journalist recently performed a silly experiment to prove a very serious point. In just 20 minutes, he manipulated ChatGPT and Google into telling the public he was a world-champion competitive hot dog eater.

 


Many (perhaps most) of the BGP route leaks reported on Cloudflare Radar (as with its predecessors) are what I term ‘ephemeral leaks‘, brief routing anomalies that exist only momentarily during convergence and have little to no operational impact.

 


In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston and I discuss the Network Time Protocol (NTP). NTP is one of the oldest systems we rely on today.

 


The Gentlemen ransomware is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) threat that is distinguished by its ability to pair its strong per-file encryption with an aggressive self-propagation capability designed to enable broad network compromise.

 


LLMs can help tame the complexity at the root of many of today’s software security challenges.

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