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The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is usually presented as a protocol upgrade. In a lab, that’s roughly true. You enable the address family, you advertise a prefix, you ping something, you move on.

 


Most of us have never heard of longtermism, the view that we should consider the interests of those who will live in the far future more than those of current humans.

 


In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston reflects on the economic consequences of the surge in artificial intelligence (AI) investment and the associated data centre build-out.

 


The Public Suffix List (PSL) is a security liability limping along as a vestigial artifact from a bygone age. Downstream consumers such as browsers, certificate authorities and RFC7489 DMARC receivers, to name a few, all read from this nearly 20-year-old text file for calculating domain boundaries.

 


No matter how much money anyone throws at it, the GenAI boom can only continue to grow as fast as datacenters are built and powered up to accept machinery.

Hedge 324: NOSTR


 
Social media services have largely become a marketplace designed to capture and hold your attention, rather than places where people share information and talk to one another. A large part of this is because they are hosted on large-scale platforms that must be paid for by large, centralized companies. NOSTR is taking a different direction, creating a protocol and system that can be hosted by anyone, anywhere, to build a social network. Wouter Constant joins Tom and Russ to explain what NOSTR is, and how it’s different.

Hedge 323: AI and Liability

Who should be held liable when AI fails? Who is liable when an AI system “breaks into” a network or system, causing a major breach? Listen in as Tom and Russ discuss two articles covering these topics on this roundtable episode of the Hedge.

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