Weekend Reads 081624


Beware of Internet FORCES aiming to change your mind or direct your decisions! That acronym, coined by behavioral scientist Patrick Fagan, helps people know when they’re being “nudged.”


Enter your name into an internet search engine and the first few results will probably include detailed profiles of you compiled by “people-search” websites with names like Intelius, PeopleFinders, and Spokeo.


Following the July 19 outages caused by a bad update, the cybersecurity firm faces shareholder lawsuits and pressure to pay damages for at least one major customer, Delta Airlines. Will software liability follow?


Since 1998 — the last year Congress passed a major law to reform the tech industry and protect children in the virtual space — a lot has changed.


According to a damning report from 404 Media, backed with internal Slack chats, emails, and documents obtained by the outlet, Nvidia helped itself to “a human lifetime visual experience worth of training data per day,” Ming-Yu Liu, vice president of Research at Nvidia and a Cosmos project leader, admitted in a May email.


It has been an enduring fascination to see how we could use packet networking in the context of digital communications in space.


At a recent conference I attended, a speaker referenced media ecologist Neil Postman and his “rules” for evaluating the pros and cons of any given technological development.


In the 18th century, Wolfgang von Kempelen’s victorious mechanical Turk (1770) amazed the world, see Figs.1-4. However, there was a person hidden inside.


LibreQoS is an open source project and the subject of a popular recent APNIC Academy webinar. Responding to feedback given at the webinar, this post will look at the features of LibreQoS.


Huawei Cloud has developed a network monitoring tool that, when used in production on three of its own regions, was able to observe more of its infrastructure than existing tools, and revealed issues that previously evaded human efforts.


Decoupling authorization from your main application code makes authorization more scalable, easier to maintain, and simpler to integrate with your components. However, these benefits are difficult to realize if you don’t consciously plan for them within your authorization implementation.


In this episode of PING, Casper Schutijser and Ralph Koning from SIDN Labs in the Netherlands discuss their post-quantum testbed project.