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Email authentication has quietly held the internet’s mail together for two decades, and it has just taken its biggest step forward yet.

A few months ago in Mercer County, Kentucky, more than 200 residents packed a planning and zoning commission meeting until every seat was filled, with citizens standing along the walls. Yard signs reading “NO DATA CENTER” lined farm roads from Harrodsburg to Burgin.

AI coding tools have changed the software development world in a few short years, but security risks and rising costs associated with AI-generated code mean organizations should consider their potential return on investment (ROI) before jumping into the deep end.

A recent PING episode noted that, for the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) at least, ‘the shape of the curve’ appears to have changed.

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.

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In fact, in Q1 2026, the Ethernet switch market grew faster than the overall server market did according to the latest statistics from IDC.

We are tempted to treat a capable language model as a knowledgeable colleague whose conclusions we can accept. It is more accurate, and more useful, to treat it as an untrusted component that produces plausible output which must be checked before it is relied upon.

In my view, MoQ occupies a middle ground between WebRTC (which is used for lots of video conferencing applications like Google Meet) and DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) which powers most entertainment video streaming on the web.

Content consumption is detached from the website itself, as users rely on AI-driven systems to aggregate, summarize and contextualize information without visiting the original source. Instead of researching across multiple tabs, readers ask an AI system to do the work for them.

Shifting data centers from earth to space has become an alternative touted as solving concerns without generating new ones. In sun synchronous, low Earth orbit, orbiting data centers (“ODCs”) may have comparatively less environmental impact and lower operating costs.

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The entire technology world has, for decades, treated the IP address as a shorthand host identifier. This is clearly not the way IP was designed, but what are our other choices? In this episode of the Hedge, Scott Robohn joins Russ And Tom to discuss a recent paper arguing cryptographic keys should be the primary host identifier, and another article on the centrality of DNS to the Internet.

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Reports of AI corporate implementation failures have continued to mount over the last year.

AI assistants now hand you a single, ready-made answer, and a harder question comes with it: who decides what we get to know, and what never makes it into the reply?

Vendors are trying to position “confidential computing” as the technical backbone of Europe’s sovereign cloud ambitions. But new research shows that a security protocol used to prove cryptographic trust in the system may have a fundamental architectural flaw.

The Internet should stop asking only who was in the room. It should ask who can bind the party bearing the loss.

America won’t beat China by banning AI. We’ll win by building the world’s best open models and letting innovation—not government—lead the way.

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A unanimous Supreme Court reversed a $1 billion dollar jury award against a broadband provider in its March 2026 ruling in Cox Communications v. Sony Music.

Differential privacy (DP) data synthesizers are increasingly proposed to afford public release of sensitive information, offering theoretical guarantees for privacy (and, in some cases, utility), but limited empirical evidence of utility in practical settings.

LLMs are relentless data miners that train on unimaginably large text databases, looking for multi-dimensional statistical relationships among small chunks of text called tokens.

Regulatory filings and new business models suggest hyperscalers are shifting from simply building AI capacity to managing the enormous financial risks that come with it.

olicymakers are casting more and more problems as issues of cybersecurity. So reframed, wildly different policy issues, from misinformation, to child social media safety laws, to antitrust regulations, to alleged journalist misconduct, to anti-sex trafficking statutes become what this Article calls “cybersecuritized.

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Hedge 311: The Dangers of AI

We are often told that if engineers who don’t go “all in” on AI will be left behind. While there are a few voices who argue that AI can be a dangerous tool, impacting not only the quality of our work, but the very quality of our thinking skills. Doug Smith, a critic of using AI for engineering, joins this episode of the Hedge to argue the contrary view of AI.

What are the dangers of relying on AI?