Worth Reading: Greasing The Skids To Move AI From InfiniBand To Ethernet

15 May 2024


Just about everybody, including Nvidia, thinks that in the long run, most people running most AI training and inference workloads at any appreciable scale – hundreds to millions of datacenter devices – will want a cheaper alternative for networking AI accelerators than InfiniBand.

Worth Reading: FCC slams banhammer on 5G fast lanes

15 May 2024


The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the final text of its net neutrality order, adding changes that appear to rule out so-called “fast lanes” for applications that some advocates feared would undermine it.

Worth Reading: Why undersea cables need high-priority protection

14 May 2024


As undersea cables carry increasing amounts of information, cyber and physical attacks against them will cause a greater impact on the wider internet.

Worth Reading: ISPs and AI

14 May 2024


One of the most common questions I’ve been asked lately is what I think the impact AI will have on the broadband industry.

Worth Reading: Intel cryoprober helps make quantum processors more reliable

13 May 2024


Intel says it has made two advancements towards realizing silicon-based quantum processors which involves optimizing a standard fabrication process and developing a means to test the quality of resulting individual devices across a full 300mm wafer.

Worth Reading: BGP Flowspec

13 May 2024


One of the key technologies gaining traction in DDoS mitigation strategies is BGP Flowspec.

Worth Reading: Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director

9 May 2024


Microsoft has a shocking level of control over IT within the US federal government – so much so that former senior White House cyber policy director AJ Grotto thinks it’s fair to call Redmond’s recent security failures a national security issue.

Worth Reading: Embracing On-Chain Domains for a Safer Internet

9 May 2024


From the humble beginnings of ARPANET to the birth of the internet as we know it today, domain registrars have been the silent architects of our online activity. Now, as we stand on the cusp of the Web3 revolution, domains are set to undergo yet another profound transformation.

Worth Reading: AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire

8 May 2024

AWS looks set to intervene after a customer highlighted a flaw that allows S3 bucket owners to be stung with potentially massive charges for attempted accesses they have no control over.

Worth Reading: A first look at suspicious IRR records

8 May 2024


Most surprising were the mismatching records between pairs of authoritative IRR databases, since each RIR only allows registration of records containing address blocks managed by that RIR, which do not overlap with each other.