Vint Cerf considered by many Internet researchers as the father of the Internet has decided to retire from his Chief Internet Evangelist position at Google at the age of 83.

Ellon Musk claims that future datacenter should be placed in orbit. An article in IEEE Spectrum shows that would be a very difficult challenge from a heat and an energy viewpoint.

Falvio Luciani argues on RIPE Labs that coping with flash crowds and various events where a large population wants to access the same information will remain a problem for the Internet.

Several web browsers and TLS applications can export the negotiated key material to a SSLKEYLOGFILE which can be used by tools such as wireshark. RFC9850 provides the following specification of this file format.

An Internet Society blog post provides a graphical representation of the growth of datacenters throughout the world during the last years based on PeeringDB data.

The Switzerland-Columbia math during the FIFA World Cup caused an all-time traffic peak at the Swiss Internet Exchange with more than 1Tbsp.

In July 2024, Bangladeshi disappeared from the Internet for some time. This blog post analyses this event from routing data.

Martin Hellman shares in a recent article in Communications of the ACM the early days of public key cryptography and the creation of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange scheme.

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