In his regular monthly spot on PING, APNIC’s Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses the question of subnet structure, looking into the APNIC Labs measurement data that collects around 8M discrete IPv6 addresses per day, worldwide.

This paper evaluates claims about large macroeconomic implications of new advances in AI. It starts from a task-based model of AI’s effects, working through automation and task complementarities.

And so the trick to technical and economic success is to only use optics when you absolutely have to and to stick with copper wiring and devices that can drive it as directly as possible under whatever circumstances there are given the systems used.

Worth Reading: Is it time to call time on DNSSEC?
In this case I’m referring to secured DNS, or DNSSEC, which has been tied up in progressive adoption for some 30 years.

For over four days, a crucial server within the Internet’s domain name system (DNS) experienced an unexplained glitch, causing it to fall out of sync with its 12 peer root servers.

Why do enterprises say they like “open” technology? Of 422 technology professionals who offered me an opinion in the last year, 403 said it was to “prevent lock-in” or “keep vendors honest.” I took multiple responses to the question, and another 385 said that it was for “innovation,” and 247 said “lower costs.”

Many readers will have seen recent news that the aurora borealis, or northern lights, were visible deep into the South for several days. This phenomenon is caused by a geomagnetic storm that is caused by strong solar flares.

This article is a description of Charles Babbage’s first computer program, which he sketched out almost 200 years ago, in 1837.

Two Gordons loom large in the history of computing, and both made observations about the interplay of economics and technology and how they foster progress, which have both been enshrined as laws.

Don’t call it remote work. Today Johna and Greg dive into distributed work– the future where there is no office vs. remote, there are just asynchronistic workers and their computer screens. Leaders have to move beyond “management by walking around” or “onboarding by shadowing.”