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There is an interesting fight within the leadership of U.S. AI companies. It is between the supporters of open-source AI and those driven to oppose open-source AI.

 


A Chinese man accused by the communist authorities of having committed “economic crimes” figured that he could evade the long reach of the country’s police state by hiding out in plain view: in a stadium packed with 60,000 people listening to a pop concert.

 


The J2SW Prefix Advertisement Checker, my 3rd application in the network series, checks the exact prefix against live routing data and reports the origin ASN seen by RIPE RIS collectors.

 


A growing number of drivers are pushing back against increasingly tech-heavy vehicles, saying they prefer the simplicity of a

 


The IETF does not launch rockets, or design spacecraft, or even work on radio systems and spectrum assignment, but it has been engaged in the standardisation of communications protocols used to communicate with these spacecraft. Here’s a few topics that were presented at IETF 126.

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Would you work differently if you knew every keystroke was being saved, every website logged, every idle minute counted against you?

 


Everything I read about the AI industry leads me to think there will be an AI crash.

 


I designed this to help with different BGP communities and configuring them on your routers.

 


It’s commonly believed that when selecting between a number of routes for the same address prefix, a BGP speaker will select the route with the shortest AS Path.

 


There is an interesting fight within the leadership of U.S. AI companies. It is between the supporters of open-source AI and those driven to oppose open-source AI.

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Hedge 315: Engineering Psychology

We often talk about “human infrastructure” in network engineering–but what does this mean, and how do we help engineers “produce” while helping them to flourish as individuals? Catherine Hicks joins Tom and Russ to discuss the psychology of software engineering, and how the lessons learned apply to network engineering.

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You can find Catherine’s new book on the psychology of software engineering here.
If you would like to follow Catherine’s writing in this area, including the impact of AI on work, you can find her blog here.
You can connect with Catherine on LinkedIn.

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The honest target is goodput, meaning requests per second that actually met your latency targets. Count anything else and you are counting cold plates.

 


I find it strange that as a software industry, we put in so much effort to make our systems efficient to design, build, and scale with DevOps practices, cloud native architectures, event-driven functions, optimized databases and storage, and resource-sipping Lean IT — then we threw it all out the window when Big AI came along.

 


If there is one universal law in internet infrastructure, it is that no good intention goes unpunished by the practical realities of legacy software maintenance.

 


This Article updates and expands on 2012 research on encryption and globalization, analyzing what the authors call “Round 3” of the Going Dark Debate: the current controversies over end-to-end encryption (E2EE).

 


Using our unique position on the Internet, we took an investigative look at one of the well-known mandatory attributes in BGP, the ORIGIN attribute.

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Today’s Internet runs on a vast infrastructure of replicated data, and the difference between order and chaos lies in maintaining consistency through synchronization across the many distributed points where that data is published.

 


IPv6-only networks often still depend on IPv4 subnets and ARP. This article introduces an IETF proposal to eliminate both.

 


Traditional software engineering approaches reliability as a binary state of uptime and downtime. Modern ML pipelines render this paradigm obsolete.

 


Yet while the radios and protocols largely reuse terrestrial 5G designs, one small but crucial component has been left behind: The control plane timers that quietly govern how registration, mobility, and session procedures behave under real-world conditions.

 


Apparently, nearly all of them have reached the same conclusion. I don’t merely need AI occasionally. I need it waiting inside every search bar, messaging app, music player, and document reader I already use.

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Hedge 313: Out of Band Management Networks

Most designers and operators default to carrying all traffic–including network management traffic–across the same paths as application data, or in band. Is this the right choice, or should operators seriously consider creating an out-of-band network just for network management? If you decide to build an out-of-band network, what are some of the considerations and lessons learned? Daryll Swer joins Tom and Russ to discuss.
 

 
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