Flying home from Vienna on a direct flight, I decided to check my normal carryon because I was already checking a bag and… who really cares about laundry, right?? And then a guy at a gate restaurant knocks over a full pint of beer right onto my pant leg!😱🤦‍♂️ Could use that laundry now! 🤣

6:00am on the last day of #IETF126 in Vienna, Austria. Younger me would have been opening the computer, wading into email, and engaging in vigorous debate. Older, late-50s me says “Uh-uh! Don’t open that laptop! You get yourself outside and run a 5K so that you are around for a few more years!”🤯

Spending my day at #IETF126 Hackathon, talking about Open Fibre Data Standard, #OFDS, https//ofds.info/ , a format for describing physical infrastructure of the #Internet. It's important for #InternetResilience ! Question is if there are enough people interested to bring this into #IETF process.

The #IETF126 agenda overview and map is giant-size on a wall at the Hilton Vienna Park! #IETF #Vienna #Wien

And I’m happy to be in the land of meat and potatoes! Yea for Wienerschnitzel and Kartoffelsalat! (Acknowledging that many people I know, including family, are not quite as into this type of food as I am! 🤣) #vienna #wien #ietf126

Waking up and taking our dog out for a walk… at 6:00am the sky has the yellowish glow that we have unfortunately come to know means… #wildfire smoke here in #Vermont. 😞 Most likely from fires burning up in northern Quebec or elsewhere in Canada. And weather app confirms AQI of 104.

it’s not just xai in memphis & south haven

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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... Residents living near Microsoft’s Fairwater data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, are suing the company over the facility's alleged noise pollution….

It’s a good way to end a day when I stumble upon a #Wikipedia article that I can easily update to have more current info! 🎉 (The moment of reading an article and realizing “hey, I have seen something more recent that isn’t here!” And then going and finding some reliable sources and adding content…)

There are only two file formats: disguised zips and renamed text files. JSON? Text. EPUB? Zip. CSV? Text. EXE? Zip. SVG? Text. DOCX? Zip. ICS? Text. APK? Zip.

The NO FAKES Act will create broad new takedowns that threaten online expression, and give some people less control over their own likenesses. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The NO FAKES Act Could Silence Satire, Commentary, And News

The NO FAKES Act is supposed to target harmful AI-generated impersonations. But in reality, it will make it easier to suppress commentary, satire, and other lawful speech. That's why EFF has signed a

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I think it’s important to keep talking about children and social media, but I also think that debate is a cover for what these laws are really about: surveilling the entire population online

Despite UK politicians affirming repeatedly that the Online Safety Act would solve all of the problems with online safety, they’re now going ahead with a social media ban for under-16s. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The UK’s New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It

This week, politicians in the UK pushed forward with plans to eviscerate privacy and free speech on the internet by announcing a ban on social media for users under 16 that is set to take effect in

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Just a reminder that the US Woman’s team has won the World Cup four times already.

EFF supports the Open Courts Act, which would make federal court records freely accessible online. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Court Records Should Be Free

Court records belong to the public. Yet anyone seeking access to federal court filings through PACER, a government software system that stands for Public Access to Court Electronic Records, is

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I increasingly believe the future of AI is going to be locally-hosted models running on our own devices, not subject to export bans or the whims of companies. My latest for @tomshardware.com on my own setup www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Ditching the cloud for local AI — how I use two mini PCs to process millions of tokens a day and save money on costly API fees

As new data center buildouts hit planning walls and AI inference providers hike costs, is the future of AI to roll your own models?

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If you are interested in low earth orbit (LEO) and satellites, you really should follow @planet4589.bsky.social ! He does *amazing* work monitoring and posting about all the various rocket launches and satellite deployments. (My interest in #LEO is #InternetAccess but he tracks all launches.)

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Space Force has issued new orbit data for the AST SpaceMobile sats launched yesterday, showing all three in their expected 525 x 530 km x 53.0 deg orbits, independently confirming successful launch.

After a week traveling for business, I was home for a night and then drove up early this morning into Quebec to spend the weekend at a #Rotary #District7850 conference, bringing together Rotarians across northern NH, VT, and part of southern Quebec for sessions and conversations! #PeopleOfAction

This is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why www.404media.co/elias-thorne...

Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why

LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...

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Who Will Keep Research Data Infrastructure Open and Running? In a new article in @issuesinst.bsky.social Dryad ED Jennifer Gibson and @investinopen.bsky.social ED Kaitlin Thaney investigate what it will take to keep research data alive. 🧪 bit.ly/43NEEMw #opendata #datasharing #openresearch

Who Will Keep Research Data Infrastructure Open and Running? | Real Numbers

The scientific community must consider the longevity of open research infrastructure—why it might fail and how to prevent it.

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Playing around with the new “Group Chats” feature on BlueSky … why not make one to chat about emerging Internet tech? If you want to join the experiment, the link is here: bsky.app/chat/SYfaQ11 If I follow you, you should get right in. Otherwise I theoretically have to approve you.

Whenever I hear people talking about #OrbitalDataCenters (which apparently are now “ODCs”), I ask… but what about the cooling??

IEEE Spectrum@spectrum.ieee.org · 2mo ago

"Free cooling is perhaps the biggest misconception. Space is cold, but it also has no atmosphere. That means the best heat-removal mechanisms, conduction and convection, are off the table. The only option is radiation."

Four incredibly intense days… amazing conversations… useful sessions… dinners at 10:00pm 😱… wonderful people! #ICANN86 is over… time to return home!

Out today: The Proof in the Code, where author Kevin Hartnett tells the definitive story of the birth and rise of Lean, and how a growing movement is transforming the enterprise of mathematics www.amazon.com/Proof-Code-T...

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Hisham Ibrahim of RIPE NCC kicks off the At-Large Advisory Council (ALAC) session at #ICANN86 talking about “The Internet’s Trust Architecture”…

Predictably, the #ICANN86 session about the "Current and Coming Impact of #AI on #DNS Abuse" is packed to standing-room-only! Concerns across the #ICANN community about how AI is increasing the speed and complexity of attacks and more... icann86.sched.com/event/2NQO9/...

In about 15 minutes we'll be kicking off the #DNSSEC & #Security Workshop at #ICANN86 in Seville, Spain. I'll be moderating the session with some great topics! If you are onsite, we're in the Paris room. If online, you can join from the links at icann86.sched.com/event/9e9e08...

Getting started at #ICANN68 with the ccNSO Tech Day’s dive into #DNS : - DNS Abuse Mitigation Tools - Evidence Based Domain Checks - Evidence Based DNS Resilience - DNSXplore Platform Follow up The 3rd presentation will be from my Internet Society colleague Amreesh Phokeer.

AVFTCN 041 – 3 Weekend Long Reads About The Future of the Internet What does the future of the Internet look like? What do we need to do differently? What could we do to bring about the Internet we want? What should we be concerned about with, for instance, the massive investment in AI…

AVFTCN 041 – 3 Weekend Long Reads About The Future of the Internet

What does the future of the Internet look like? What do we need to do differently? What could we do to bring about the Internet we want? What should we be concerned about with, for instance, the massive investment in AI infrastructure? Those are all questions that I've been focused on for years (well, except the last one... that's new), and I always seek out many other viewpoints as I ponder my own.

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The Meta Ray-Ban creep glasses already have facial-recognition capabilities--Meta just hasn't enabled them yet. www.wired.com/story/meta-s...

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

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I will be at #ICANN86 this coming week in Seville, Spain, speaking on a panel about #cybersecurity and #InternetResilience , moderating another session, and engaging with members of our @internetsociety.bsky.social community and partners. If you are there and want to connect, please message me.