ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) generate human-like responses to prompts even though they do not understand what any of the words in the prompts mean. Yet, enthusiasts proclaim that LLMs have achieved or soon will achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI)—the ability to perform any intellectual task that humans can.

Global and local change is coming to the world’s five Regional Internet Registries. The orgs that delegate and manage IP addresses are working on a policy that will allow them to stop one of their number going rogue, and the process is proving controversial.

With a three year cadence between PCI-Express bandwidth increases and a three year span between when a gear shift is first talked about and when its chippery is first put into the field, it is extremely difficult to not be impatient for the next PCI-Express release to get into the field.

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The networking industry should address its perennial staff shortage by giving early-career techies the kind of hands-on training delivered during apprenticeships for trainee carpenters or electricians.

2024 was like most recent years where there were a few major broadband outages and a lot of smaller regional ones. Most carriers claim to be investing more money in increased redundancy to avoid major outages and one hopes that is cutting down on outages.

As part of a recent study, my colleagues and I at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX), and BENOCS GmbH used 675 vantage points from NLNOG RING in 523 networks and 62 economies (Figure 1).

Ewert’s central claim is based on Turing’s halting problem in computer science, which demonstrates that no algorithm can universally determine whether another algorithm will halt or run forever. He extends this principle to argue that an algorithm can only create an algorithm less sophisticated than itself.

What has received limited attention, however, are vulnerabilities arising from cross-layer interactions among various protocols within the TCP/IP protocol suite, caused by forged ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) error messages.

Although tech companies promise that “what you do on your device will stay on the device,” our prior finding reveals a leeway here: it did not stop companies from processing user data, for example, analyzing image frames on-device and sharing extracted features to their servers.

We claim two things about our profession. Computer science studies information processes, natural and artificial. Computer science is a master of abstraction. To reconcile the two, we say that abstraction is the key that unlocks the complexity of designing and managing information processes.