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The rising power demand of the data center industry almost appears like an industry running within the integrated grid but outside the usual paradigm of the traditional electric utility sector. Indeed, it should be treated as such.

 


Much has been said about the use of the DNS as a means both of tracking the online behaviour of individual users and as a means of online censorship and control. Almost every online transaction starts with a DNS query, and if one were able to assemble the complete set of DNS queries generated by an individual user it would be possible to assemble a relatively complete profile of their online activity.

 


Let’s say you wanted to make sure that your AI is secure. Can you just maximize the security and privacy benchmark and call it a day? Nope.

 


The internet is fragmenting. Not in the future. Now. At three different layers simultaneously.

 


In June, Microsoft Secure Boot certificates are set to expire for the first time ever.

Hedge 306: RPKI Transport


 
Synchronizing information across the Internet, at an initial glance, looks like a fairly simple problem to solve. Just copy a file to a host and create a magic protocol, right? Not really. Each kind of data has a fairly unique set of requirements–and RPKI data, used to provide security information for BGP, is no different. Job Snijders joins Tom and Russ to talk about ERIK, a protocol developed to synchronize RPKI records.

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The Technocratic State represents a new invisible risk of the 21st century, as it does not present itself as a conventional political authority. It appears as a technical solution that seems inevitable.

 


Author and journalist Michael Pollan characterizes our era as the “Second Copernican Shock,” a civilizational turning point where the boundary between human empathy and algorithmic calculation is increasingly blurred.

 


It’s always difficult for ISPs to fully understand how changes in the economy might impact them. Folks in the industry see the usual statistics on unemployment and inflation, but those don’t really tell much about the future as it relates to broadband adoption.

 


Companies rushing to adopt AI and LLMs without a clear strategy may be creating new risks.

 


Power failures are to blame for the most impactful data center outages, while network issues are the most frequent culprits for IT service disruptions, according to Uptime Institute’s latest analysis.

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