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Could the growing deployment of RPKI become a threat to routing stability? To answer that question, we analysed more than 11 years of RPKI and BGP data, measuring how much routing activity can be associated with RPKI-related changes.

 


The LoRa Alliance recently reported that there are 150 million global devices connected by LoRa technology. LoRa is shorthand for Long Range and is a radio technology that sends small bits of data over long distances using little battery power.

 


Today, powerful, widely available AI tools allow users to easily generate or alter photorealistic images to a degree that was difficult to imagine just a few years ago.

 


In 2025, Edgebeam Wireless was formed to take advantage of the unused spectrum of TV stations. The business is a partnership between the E.W. Scripps Company, Gray Media, Nexstar Media Group, and Sinclair.

 


Get ready for new gTLDs like .prompt, .dns, and even brands like .tiktok. Among the most sought-after names is .agent, which drew 13 applicants.

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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.

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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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Hedge 321: Sockets

There are many “unsung technologies” in the Internet. While we often think of TCP/IP, various models, Ethernet, and DNS, we don’t often think about the lowly socket interface. What is the history of the socket, and why is it important in the world of the Internet? George Michaelson joins Colin Doyle and Russ White to discuss the history and importance of sockets.
 

 

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