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Could the growing deployment of RPKI become a threat to routing stability? To answer that question, we analysed more than 11 years of RPKI and BGP data, measuring how much routing activity can be associated with RPKI-related changes.

 


The LoRa Alliance recently reported that there are 150 million global devices connected by LoRa technology. LoRa is shorthand for Long Range and is a radio technology that sends small bits of data over long distances using little battery power.

 


Today, powerful, widely available AI tools allow users to easily generate or alter photorealistic images to a degree that was difficult to imagine just a few years ago.

 


In 2025, Edgebeam Wireless was formed to take advantage of the unused spectrum of TV stations. The business is a partnership between the E.W. Scripps Company, Gray Media, Nexstar Media Group, and Sinclair.

 


Get ready for new gTLDs like .prompt, .dns, and even brands like .tiktok. Among the most sought-after names is .agent, which drew 13 applicants.

Best of the Hedge: 17, Programming Skills for Network Engineers

Network engineers do not need to become full-time coders to succeed–but some coding skills are really useful. In this episode of the Hedge, David Barrosso (you can find David’s github repositories here), Phill Simonds, and Russ White discuss which programming skills are useful for network engineers.

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However, “Free” is often a misleading market signal, in that there are very real costs to the service operator that need to be covered, but “Free” provides the illusion that the technology behind the service is provided at a cost that is sufficiently small that it can be met by some other form of indirect subsidy.

 


We know how AI works. We just don’t have any readily accessible account in the surface-level terms that we would like.

 


This time, Duane discusses the history of DNS root Key Signing Key (KSK) rollovers, the process of replacing the top-level KSK used to secure the DNS root zone.

 


The global memory shortage that has driven up the cost of servers, storage and PCs through 2026 will get worse in 2027 and 2028, according to memory maker Micron Technology.

 


I opened a pull request (PR) one day that changed an integer column to a big integer and updated a transformation. All of the tests passed. They should not have.

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