OpenClaw Ruined AI and It Makes Me Happy

The biggest AI story of 2026 isn’t the growing need for electrical power or the ridiculous way the market sold out for RAM based on a letter of intent to acquire. No, the biggest AI story of the year so far is how a scrappy little project completely upset the AI apple cart. OpenClaw (nee ClaudeBot, nee OpenMolt) set the world on fire. And it destroyed how people were trying to direct AI. I’m sitting over here giggling about it.

Round The Clock

The basics of OpenClaw are simple enough. You have a system of agents that do things. It can read your texts or email and triage the flow of information. It can send you a text summary of the news or the weather every morning. But it can also be configured to monitor things as they arrive to deal with them on the fly. That’s where the real narrative shift has happened.

When you open a browser window to talk to an LLM you are creating a session that has a finite time limit. You are saying that you are going to work on a project for a specific period of time and that’s that. Once you complete Continue reading

Meet NFA v26.02, featuring BGP visibility tools, extended threshold matching, and SNMP reporting enhancements.

We’re excited to announce the release of Noction Flow Analyzer v26.02. This version includes a focused set of improvements that enhance BGP visibility, expand threshold-monitoring options, improve flow-processing performance, and refine the SNMP reporting experience. This update builds on the foundation of v26.01 and introduces new tools for network engineers who rely on real-time routing intelligence and traffic analysis.

BGP diagnostics and visibility tools

The biggest addition in v26.02 is a complete set of BGP diagnostics and visibility tools. These give network administrators new insights into routing behavior directly within NFA. The new BGP diagnostics panel introduces ping and traceroute checks, allowing engineers to run connectivity and path diagnostics without leaving the NFA interface. Additionally, a BGP Data Lookup feature enables direct queries against NFA’s internal BGP tables, supporting exact-match and more-specific match modes for precise prefix investigations. Finally, BGP History Lookup provides access to historical route events, including key attributes such as prefix, next-hop, AS path, and more. This makes it easier to trace routing changes over time and connect them with traffic events.

NFA 26.02
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Pytest for Automated Network Testing (II)

Pytest for Automated Network Testing (II)

In part one, we covered the basics of pytest and wrote our first network tests. We tested BGP and OSPF on a single device, then extended it to multiple devices. We also looked at parametrization and how it helps treat each device and each neighbour as an independent test.

In this part, we will cover inventory management with Nornir and pytest fixtures.

Pytest for Automated Network Testing
Pytest gives you full control. You write the test, you decide exactly what to check, and you get a clear pass or fail result. You can test one device
Pytest for Automated Network Testing (II)PacketswitchSuresh Vinasiththamby
Pytest for Automated Network Testing (II)

Nornir Introduction

Nornir is a Python automation framework designed for network engineers. Instead of writing your own logic to connect to devices, manage inventory, and run tasks in parallel, Nornir handles all of that for you. We have a dedicated series on Nornir, which you can check out here, so we are not going to do a deep dive in this post.

The reason we are using Nornir here is for inventory and task management. Instead of hardcoding a list of IP addresses in our collection file, we define our devices in a hosts file with groups, credentials, and Continue reading

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The screenshot feature has cultivated a wide range of impactful academic research across computing and social scientific fields.

 


When Motorola unveiled its Iridium global satellite-based mobile telephony service in the late 1990’s everything augured well for a revolution in the satellite communications market, only it didn’t happen.

 


While the software industry has made genuine strides over the past few decades to deliver products securely, the furious pace of AI adoption is putting that progress at risk.

 


The analytic company IDC says the U.S. economy will be generating 394 trillion zettabytes of data annually by 2028 (a zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes).

 


Enterprise strategists need to worry about securing their environments against AI-powered attacks.

Reorganized ipSpace.net Segment Routing Resources

I created nine sample SR-MPLS topologies for the ITNOG 10 SR-MPLS workshop, and of course, we ran out of time. I plan to cover those topologies and resulting printouts in a series of blog posts; to prepare for those, I cleaned up and reorganized the Segment Routing blog category, which is now split into two:

Hope you’ll find them useful! Also, if you know of other non-vendor Segment Routing resources, please leave a comment, email me, or submit a pull request.

Quantum safe amateur radio secure shell

I’ve previously pointed out that the AX.25 implementation in the kernel is pretty poor. It’s not really being maintained, and even when it gets fixes after I reported it, with people running LTS OSs it can take like 5 years before before the fix actually reaches users, if ever. So when writing applications, you still have to work around kernel bugs from a decade ago. This makes it kind of pointless to upstream patches.

The exception is security patches, and reading between the lines of why the AX.25 code is now being removed from the kernel, it sounds like maybe some LLM (like the looming “Mythos” and the related Glasswing) may have found some severe problems. But even if there aren’t any known security problems yet, having code is now more of a liability than ever. Code needs to be removed, or taken responsibility of. (tangent about ffmpeg at the bottom of this post)

With the kernel code removed, say goodbye to the old walkthrough.

The new API

Well, not “new”, per se, but “replacement”.

With the socket based API about to be gone, we need some other way for applications to send packets and Continue reading

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These milestones highlight the significance RPKI has gained over the past decade. Starting off as an experimental technology, it has become a central component of the Internet, affecting a large percentage of its networks.

 


More than 9.7 million third-party businesses sell goods on Amazon, and Amazon makes a lot of money charging those third parties to sell on its platform—$117.7 billion in 2022, representing 23% of Amazon’s total revenues.

 


For much of the history of computing, it was reasonably safe to assume that a machine was doing what you told it to do (and what its creators promised it would do), because its operations were local.

 


There is always the case that the unexpected happens, and X.509 certificates are no exception. There are circumstances where the certificate should be marked as unusable immediately, which is before the notAfter expiration time.

 


Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure.

SecureCRT to SuperPutty – Migrate Your Sessions with One Python Script

If you’ve ever had to move a large session library from SecureCRT to SuperPutty, you know the pain — there’s no built-in migration path, and manually re-entering dozens (or hundreds) of sessions is a miserable afternoon. I wrote SCRT_2_SPUTTY to handle it automatically. Point it at your SecureCRT XML export, and it spits out a...

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Hedge 304: Deep Dive into a Network Master’s Program

If you’ve ever been curious about what an advanced degree in network engineering looks like, you’ll want to join us for this episode of the Hedge. Levi Perigo from the University of Colorado at Boulder joins Tom and Russ to talk through what earning a Master’s in Networking involves and what kinds of things you would learn.
 

 
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Technology Short Take 195

Welcome to Technology Short Take #195! It wasn’t planned this way, but it seems like this Tech Short Take is heavily slanted toward AI/LLM-related articles and posts. Topics like security concerns around improper storage of API keys, how developers are using AI tools, spyware getting installed with AI assistants, and how AI/LLMs might be creating barriers to entry for new IT profesionals are all on tap this time around. I hope this unintentional focus doesn’t prevent you from finding something useful!

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