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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.
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