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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.

Hedge 322: AI Crash


 
Just about everyone is watching the financial markets, either wondering how much better they can get, or when the AI financing bubble is going to crash. Dough Dawson, from POTs and PANs, joins Tom and Russ to talk about the logic of a coming crash, and consider where engineers should be looking for potential future career fields to weather the storm.
 
https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-322.mp3
 
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IPv6’s vast address space makes scanning particularly challenging. IPv6 scanners must first discover in-use IPv6 addresses they can target and scan.

 


In this article, I follow the shift from backbone to delivery edge, looking at how content and cloud platforms are taking on roles once associated mainly with traditional CDNs, what public measurements can and cannot show, and what Google and Meta deployments inside one access network reveal about the changing role of operators.

 


Working from home is still one of the most important uses of broadband, particularly in rural communities.

 


A MikroTik router in a honeypot network of mine was recently compromised. The intruders set up a fairly elaborate persistence and remote-access scheme, but they never disconnected my admin session I was logged in with.

 


As AI agents transition from simple coding assistants to end-to-end engineers, the profession is shifting from writing syntax to auditing complex systems.

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