Worth Reading: Why Google’s Chrome monopoly won’t crack anytime soon

28 November 2024


The US Department of Justice has accused a major tech company of an illegal web monopoly and tried to force them to split off their web browser. Sound familiar?

Worth Reading: Oscar-7: Space’s oldest working hardware still has secrets

28 November 2024


The oldest functional off-Earth space hardware? Well, that is a great question for those into pub quizzes, aka bar trivia. 1977’s Voyagers hold some impressive records beside those golden discs, just not that one. Any guesses?

Worth Reading: Making High Speed Networking Cool Again

27 November 2024


This year, the spotlight shifted to physical systems, with a strong emphasis on liquid cooling solutions that were seemingly everywhere on the expo floor.

Worth Reading: Will AI Generate a New Schumpeterian Growth Wave?

27 November 2024

What new general-purpose technologies might replace these engines of growth? What kinds of social and political arrangements will support or impede the emergence and deployment of those new technologies?

Worth Reading: [Podcast] The IPv6 transition

26 November 2024


In his regular monthly spot on PING, APNIC’s Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses the current state of worldwide IPv6 uptake.

Worth Reading: How network startups could win over enterprises

26 November 2024


How does a network startup fit in, then? Consider what offsets ease and lack of risk: Money. If new network equipment can save a lot of money, or if it’s needed to support a new application or service that improves productivity or lowers overall costs a lot, then it’s worth looking into.

Worth Reading: Out-of-Band network design for service provider networks

26 November 2024


A quick primer on OOB networking — it is basically a network segment that is isolated from the production network or what I would call the ‘transit path’.

Worth Reading: More Low-orbit Satellites

26 November 2024


According to GSA, which tracks the satellite industry, 34 countries are either planning, evaluating, or testing broadband satellites. There have already been satellites launched by UK, Mexico, Japan, Papua New Guinea, the United Arab Emirates, and Timor-Leste.

Worth Reading: Engineering Failure

21 November 2024


We face a series of cascading failures in sectors like defense and national security that pose serious economic, geopolitical, and related dangers to the U.S.’s stability and international presence.

Worth Reading: You Are Paying The Clouds To Build Better AI Than They Will Rent You

20 November 2024

One of the geniuses of the cloud – perhaps the central genius – is that a big company that would have a large IT budget, perhaps on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and that has a certain amount of expertise creates a much, much larger IT organization with billions of…