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AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B
AWS grew its IPv4 estate with an additional 27 million IP addresses to now owning 128 Million IPv4 addresses. At a value of $35 per IPv4 address, the total value of AWS’ IPv4 estate is ~4.5 Billion dollars. An increase of $2 billion
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Mastodon is doomed?
Mastodon won't be the next Twitter, and it's not because of Bluesky. The ideals and execution won't scale.
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Intruder at the top of the 20 meter amateur band?
It wasn't my intent to have this next post be about locating a source of a transmitter - but the temptation proved irresistible. Over the pa...
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Element (Matrix) adds video/voice rooms
We're so excited to announce that Video Rooms is entering beta in Element, just as a new Room Search is exiting beta!
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37% of the world’s population have still never used the internet
New data from ITU suggest a ‘COVID connectivity boost’ – but the world’s poorest are still being left far behind, with 2.9 billion people still offline.
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WiFi can read through walls
UCSB researchers’ new method enables high-quality imaging of still objects with WiFi by using the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction and the corresponding Keller cones to trace edges of the objects.
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NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?
It's normal for post-quantum cryptography to be rolled out as an extra layer of security on top of traditional pre-quantum cryptography, rather than as a replacement .
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This Year in Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Introducing “6-pack”: the first open hardware modular switch
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Introducing DNS Resolver for Tor
As was mentioned in the original 1.1.1.1 blog post, our policy is to never write client IP addresses to disk and wipe all logs within 24 hours. Still some folks might not want to reveal their IP address to the resolver at all. This is why we are launching a Tor hidden service for our resolver.
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HAProxy 1.8
The monumental stable release of HAProxy 1.8 is here! The HAProxy 1.8 release candidate 1 (RC1) has been published by the R&D team here at HAProxy Technologies.
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We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure
This post is part of a series about the wonderful world of clusters. Check out the first post for an overview of what clusters are all about. In this post we will take a peek under the hood of our hosting infrastructure and walk through how we made hosting work in a multi-cluster world. Hosting overview If you didn't…
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Google added HEVC support in Chrome
Google has recently fixed a bug in Chrome with a big implication for the video streaming industry: Support for adaptive streaming of HEVC / H.265 video content.
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Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage browsing-over-Tor?
There are a bunch of reasons to launch an onion site, and a bunch of benefits, all of which have provided value to platforms such as Facebook, the BBC or NYT Onions. The first benefits are authenti…
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Making Tailscale Faster
Tailscale performance updates reduce memory use, increase throughput, and speed startup with multi-queue, writev, and netmap caching.
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Secret Military Telephone Buttons
It's the first of the new year, which means we ought to do something momentous to mark the occasion, like a short piece about telephones. Why so much on telephones lately? I think I'm just a little burned out on software at the moment and I need a vacation before I'm excited to write about failed Microsoft ventures…
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Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
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OpenSSH 10.6p2 Critical workaround for alpine without PAM
OpenSSH release notes
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μWWVB: A Tiny WWVB Station
μWWVB is a watch stand that automatically sets the time on atomic wristwatches where regular WWVB signal isn't available.
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DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers
Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning — Peter PanAt the beginning of the ARPANET, there were only a few hosts that could be kept in a...
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Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack
That’s the title of RFC 7258 , also known as BCP 188 (where BCP stands for “Best Current Practice”); it represents Internet Engineering Task Force consensus on the fact that many powerful well-funded entities feel it is appropriate to monitor people’s use of the Net, without telling those people. The consensus is…
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Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1
Using latency measurements to infer when a globally used application is served only from us-east-1.
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How to stop Time Warner Cable sucking at Youtube
Experience: Capita Technology · Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Location: Australia · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Mitch Ribar’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
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Microsoft mishandling example.com
TL;DR: Since at least February 2020, Microsoft's Autodiscover service has incorrectly routed the IANA-reserved example.com to Sumitomo Electric Industries' mail servers at sei.co.jp , potentially sending test credentials there.