Worth Reading: Network traffic telemetry on modern routers (1)

1 April 2025


This article focuses solely on traffic telemetry protocols that export information about network packets (either in parsed format or as the first X bytes of the packet itself) observed or forwarded by network equipment. Protocols such as gNMI, NETCONF, and SNMP are out of scope for this discussion.

Worth Reading: What’s the Future of Keyboards?

31 March 2025


The response that I want to highlight is the big shift in usage of those under 34 to using cell phones instead of computers. Just a few years ago, our surveys showed an even split of device use for this age group. Going back a few more years and usage would have been weighted to using computers.

Worth Reading: AI drives high-speed, efficient Ethernet networks

31 March 2025


At next month’s Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC), many of the technologies that are driving current and future Ethernet development will be on full display by the Ethernet Alliance, which is set to unveil its tenth anniversary Ethernet roadmap.

Worth Reading: Using ChatGPT too much can create emotional dependency

27 March 2025


OpenAI has published the results of a two-part study completed alongside MIT Media Lab, which uncovered a connection between increased usage of the ChatGPT chatbot and users’ increased feelings of loneliness.

Worth Reading: Why you should give vibe coding a miss

27 March 2025


We all know programmers are using AI tools to supplement their work, but there’s a new trend in town taking things to the next level. The term “vibe coding” was coined by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy just last month, but what started as a random X post has quickly spiraled into a whole new community.

Worth Reading: Post-Quantum Cryptography Timelines

26 March 2025


The national migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), mitigating the threat from future quantum computers, is a mass technology change that will take a number of years.

Worth Reading: A load of old…

26 March 2025


A recent presentation by Peter Gutmann, a well-respected computer scientist and cryptographer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, discusses the impending crisis of quantum computing. It’s called ‘Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks‘.

Worth Reading: [Podcast] Pulse Internet Measurement Forum at APRICOT 2025

25 March 2025


PIMF brings together people interested in Internet measurement from a wide range of perspectives — from technical details to policy, governance, and social issues. The goal is to create a space for open discussion, uniting both technologists and policy experts.

Worth Reading: Today’s Startups Are Doing Much Worse Than Those of the Past

25 March 2025


Things began to change in the 2000s. The percentage of startups profitable at IPO time has steadily declined since the 1980s according to Jay Ritter at the University of Florida. The most valuable ones are also taking longer to become profitable.

Worth Reading: RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green bubble chats

24 March 2025


Now that Apple is on board, iPhones and their users can also benefit from continued improvements to the RCS standard. And one major update was announced today: RCS will now support end-to-end encryption using the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, a standard finalized by the Internet Engineering Task Force in 2023.