Mengenal Mantis Shrimp: Pukulan Tercepat di Dunia Hewan
Ikan mantis shrimp menjadi salah satu makhluk laut yang paling menarik untuk dipelajari saat ini, terutama karena kemampuannya yang luar biasa dalam dunia hewan. Dengan pukulan tercepat di antara semua spesies hewan, mantis shrimp menarik perhatian para ilmuwan dan penggemar biologi di seluruh dunia. Fenomena ini tidak hanya unik dalam hal kekuatan, tetapi juga dalam mekanisme biologis dan perilakunya yang kompleks. Artikel ini akan membahas secara mendalam tentang mantis shrimp, mulai dari biologi, keunikan pukulannya, hingga relevansinya dalam penelitian dan aplikasi teknologi terbaru.
Apa Itu Mantis Shrimp?
Mantis shrimp adalah hewan laut yang termasuk dalam ordo Stomatopoda. Meskipun namanya mengandung kata “shrimp” (udang), ikan mantis shrimp sebenarnya jauh berbeda dari udang biasa karena memiliki bentuk tubuh dan perilaku yang unik. Hewan ini dikenal dengan warnanya yang cerah dan cakar yang sangat kuat, yang digunakannya untuk berburu dan mempertahankan diri di habitat alaminya, yaitu perairan hangat di sepanjang terumbu karang tropis dan perairan dangkal pantai.
Keistimewaan utama dari mantis shrimp ini adalah kemampuan pukulannya yang sangat cepat dan kuat, yang menjadi fokus utama banyak studi terkini. Mereka mampu menghasilkan pukulan dengan kecepatan dan tenaga yang melebihi banyak predator lain di lautan.
Mantis Shrimp dan Pukulan Tercepat di Dunia Hewan
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Mengenal Fenomena Ballistosporic: Spora Jamur Terlempar Jauh
Fenomena ballistosporic rain menjadi salah satu misteri alam yang sedang banyak diperbincangkan di kalangan ilmuwan dan pengamat alam saat ini. Fenomena ini merujuk pada proses di mana spora jamur secara aktif terlepas dan terlempar jauh dari tubuh jamur induknya melalui mekanisme khusus yang mirip dengan “hujan” spora. Keunikan dan kompleksitas proses ini tidak hanya menarik perhatian dari sisi ekologi, tetapi juga memiliki implikasi penting dalam pemahaman penyebaran jamur dan konsekuensi ekosistem yang lebih luas.
Apa Itu Fenomena Ballistosporic Rain?
Pada dasarnya, ballistosporic rain menggambarkan proses pelepasan spora jamur secara masif dan tersebar luas ke lingkungan sekitarnya sehingga menciptakan kesan “hujan spora.” Kata kunci ballistosporic merujuk pada mekanisme pelemparan spora yang menggunakan gaya fisik tertentu dari organ reproduksi jamur, terutama basidium yang ada pada jamur basidiomycetes.
Selama periode terbaru, penelitian telah memperlihatkan bahwa spora tidak hanya jatuh secara pasif, melainkan dilemparkan dengan gaya katapel alami yang memungkinkannya mencapai jarak jauh dari sumber asal. Oleh karena itu, fenomena ini berperan penting dalam distribusi genetik dan kolonisasi jamur di berbagai habitat.
Mekanisme Ballistosporic dalam Pelepasan Spora Jamur
Inti dari fenomena ballistosporic adalah kemampuan jamur untuk mengatur pelepasan spora melalui reaksi fisik dalam skala mikro. Pada saat ini, diketahui bahwa spora jamur basidiomycetes Continue reading
Cloudflare proudly joins the UK government’s Cyber Resilience Pledge
Today, the UK government launched the Cyber Resilience Pledge: a voluntary framework inviting organizations to commit to foundational cybersecurity governance, board-level accountability, and comprehensive cybersecurity coverage across supply chains. Cloudflare is proud to join the pledge’s founding cohort of signatories and continue our long-standing work with the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), National Cyber Security Centre, and others to shape a more secure, future-ready digital economy for the UK.
The pledge's core pillars — democratizing security, leadership accountability, and radical transparency — have been at the heart of Cloudflare since day one. Instead of approaching this framework as a new set of commitments to meet, we see it as a welcome validation from the UK government of the security philosophy and principles Cloudflare has championed for over a decade. We are glad to see the rest of the industry moving in this direction.
This pledge is an important step, and it comes at a time of significant cyber risk. In the first quarter of 2026, Cloudflare's global network blocked an average of 234 billion cyber threats every day. Recently, we mitigated a hyper-volumetric DDoS attack that peaked at 31.4 Tbps. At the end of 2025, Cloudflare Continue reading
AI Assistants Have Many Interfaces. Context Is the Real Product.
AI assistants are no longer just chat windows. The same assistant now appears as a web app, desktop app, mobile app, browser extension, IDE extension, command-line tool, local agent, and cloud worker. That is powerful, but it creates a new problem: deciding which interface to use, and keeping context alive when moving between them. This … Continue reading AI Assistants Have Many Interfaces. Context Is the Real Product.Your Worker can now have its own cache in front of it
Today we are launching Workers Cache: a tiered cache that sits in front of your Worker, configured by a single line of Wrangler config and the same Cache-Control headers you already know.
When Workers Cache is enabled, every cacheable request to your Worker hits Cloudflare's cache first. If there's a fresh cached response, Cloudflare returns it directly — your Worker doesn't run, and you don't pay CPU time for it. On a miss, your Worker runs, and if your response is cacheable, Cloudflare stores it for the next request. The next request from anywhere on Earth can be served straight from cache.
The whole thing is one config block:
{
"name": "my-worker",
"main": "src/index.ts",
"compatibility_date": "2026-05-01",
"cache": {
"enabled": true
}
}After that, you control caching the way HTTP has always wanted you to — by setting headers on your responses:
return new Response(body, {
headers: {
"Cache-Control": "public, max-age=300, stale-while-revalidate=3600",
"Cache-Tag": "products,product:123",
},
});And when content changes, your Worker purges its own cache:
await ctx.cache.purge({ tags: ["product:123"] });That's the whole API. There is no zone to configure, no rules engine to set up, no separate cache to provision, and no second product Continue reading
Worth Reading: More VXLAN and EVPN Labs
Ali Bahadır Coşkun continued his EVPN/VXLAN journey. Using the free netlab-powered EVPN/VXLAN labs, he finished the basic EVPN/VXLAN lab (adding EVPN control plane to VXLAN underlay), and then completed the whole VXLAN/IRB/anycast saga.
Want to do something similar? The free EVPN/VXLAN lab exercises include six VXLAN labs, almost a dozen EVPN labs, and a few EVPN designs. I might add a lab or two during the summer break.
Six AI agent SDKs for enterprise Kubernetes, compared
There’s a question we hear constantly from platform and engineering leaders right now, “which agent SDK should we standardize on for our Kubernetes clusters?”
The honest answer is that the question is slightly wrong, and the rest of this post explains why. But it’s a fair question, so let’s compare the contenders first.
If you’re an enterprise running on-premise or in your own VPC, the SDK you pick has to do two things most of the “build an agent in 20 lines” tutorials skip over. It has to run in a container you control, and it has to talk to a model you can host yourself. That second one rules out a surprising amount.
The six SDKs most people are actually using
These are the ones with the most mindshare in mid-2026. There are others, but these are the names that come up in every conversation. They sit on a rough spectrum of model freedom: most will happily run against a model you host yourself, the OpenAI SDK will too but treats that as a side path, and one of them (Anthropic’s) is tied to a single vendor’s models. I’ve ordered them with the most flexible first.
LangGraph
LangChain’s Continue reading
Hedge 310: AI Ops
What is AI Ops, and how can it be useful for your network? Akshay Balaganur and Sushanth Mascaren join Tom and Russ to discuss various aspects of AI Ops.
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RPi 3B Dual-Band AP: Boost Wi-Fi with External 5 GHz Adapter
The goal of this guide is to turn a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B into […]
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Chapter 3: SONiC Startup Process
Figure 3-1 illustrates a simplified SONiC container startup sequence. First, systemd reads the service unit files and evaluates their dependency and ordering directives. It then starts docker.service, making the Docker daemon available. After that, SONiC service containers are started according to the dependencies and ordering rules defined in their service unit files.
In this simplified example, database.service starts early because many SONiC services rely on the Redis databases to exchange configuration, state, and event information. Services such as pmon, syncd, and swss are then started according to their own dependencies and ordering rules. Higher-level SONiC service containers, such as bgp, lldp, teamd, and snmp, are started after the lower-level services they depend on are available.
It is also important to distinguish between host-level service management and process management inside containers. systemd is responsible for starting the host-level service units that create and manage SONiC service containers. After a container has started, the processes inside the container are launched and supervised by the container's own initialization logic, which in many SONiC containers is based on supervisord. For example, after the bgp container has started, processes such as bgpd, zebra, and fpmsyncd are started inside the container. Similarly, the swss Continue reading
TCG079: Why Your State File is Actually a Distributed Systems Problem
Malcolm Matalka joins William and Eyvonne to challenge the narrative that Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is dead. Malcolm argues that the real value of IaC was never the syntax, but state and governance. Together they examine whether the state was a file problem at all, or a distributed systems problem in a JSON costume. Episode... Read more »NAN126: Fine-Tuning Open Source LLMs for Network Engineering
Eric welcomes Eduard Dulharu, a veteran network architect and the Founder and CTO of vExpertAI, to talk about how agentic AI, open-source LLMs, and digital twins are changing network operations. Eduard discusses the rapid evolution of generative AI, draws parallels between AI’s current limitations and early network protocols such as Spanning Tree, talks about why... Read more »D2DO306: Platform Engineering in the Agentic Era (Sponsored)
Platform engineering forms the foundation for developers to build on, and you shouldn’t be surprised that folks from VMware have been thinking about platforms for a long time. In today’s episode, sponsored by Broadcom, Ned and Kyler discuss the current state and future of platform engineering with guests Jad El-Zein and Myles Gray. They cover... Read more »My Multi-Agent Coding Setup to Lower LLM Cost
AI coding tools are now good enough that the question is no longer “Should I use them?” For me, the more useful question is: how do I use them without letting LLM cost grow unnecessarily? The obvious answer is to use cheaper models. That helps, but it is not the full answer. In practice, the bigger … Continue reading My Multi-Agent Coding Setup to Lower LLM CostYour site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers
One year ago, we declared the first Content Independence Day, and we gave website owners the means to take back control of their content. The deal between crawlers and website owners that had held up for 30 years — we crawl you, and you get referrals — was no longer true. AI was taking everything and sending back nothing, presenting an existential threat to website owners. And so we launched a one-click "Block AI Bots" option, along with a Pay-Per-Crawl marketplace.
A lot has changed in a year. Last July, conversations around “AI bots” centered around blocking AI training without compensation, pointing to the win–lose deal where content was used for model training with no value driven back to the website owner. But a desire for more nuance has emerged: Content owners still want to be able to protect their content, and they should be compensated for the original content that they work hard to create, curate, and share. We also know that locking down content isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution; website owners want more options than resorting to “block all automation, every time.”
If you run a small site, the problem isn’t just that someone could train models Continue reading
Making AI search smarter
Search drives most experiences on the web. It's how we get things done, and how nearly everything on the web gets found — the creators, the merchants, the answer to whatever you just typed into a box. For nearly 30 years, that discovery journey ran on a simple bargain: let a search engine crawl your content, and it sends you visitors. You turned those visitors into a business — through ads, subscriptions, or just the audience itself. Being discoverable and getting paid were the same thing. A year ago, on the first Content Independence Day, we drew a line to defend that bargain in the AI era. But a line in the sand was only a first step. Since then, the prevalence of AI search in consumers’ lives has only accelerated as more than 50% of traffic online is non-human. The threat is no longer a handful of training crawlers you can block; it's search itself being rebuilt around AI answers.
Today's answer engines read your page and hand the user a summary, so the visit — and the revenue that depended on it — isn’t needed. We see it firsthand, and independent research backs it up: a 2025 Continue reading
Content Independence Day, one year on: building the business model for the agentic Internet
One year ago, we declared Content Independence Day. At the time, we could see what many in the industry were beginning to sense: the fundamental economics of the Internet were shifting. AI adoption was accelerating, publishers were experiencing rapid declines in referral traffic, and AI companies were crawling the web at unprecedented scale, often without clearly declaring intent, and almost always without compensation.
We changed the defaults. For all new domains on Cloudflare, AI training crawlers would be blocked by default unless domain owners chose otherwise. We didn't do this to wall off the web. We did it because we believed a healthier ecosystem required transparency, control, scarcity, and ultimately, a market where high-quality content could be valued and exchanged fairly.
A year later, that market has emerged. But the transformation of the Internet has happened even faster than we anticipated. In this report, we share key data points that illustrate how quickly the business model of the Internet has shifted – and what this new content market means for publishers and site owners.
AI is not just another technology cycle. It is a platform Continue reading
Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
Today, we are announcing the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway, an engine that will give Cloudflare customers the ability to charge for any asset protected by Cloudflare: web pages, datasets, APIs, or MCP tools.
It will provide a single control plane to manage payment policies and access controls across your applications, while also protecting your origin from high payment volumes by handling payment verification and enforcement at the edge. At launch, payments will settle in stablecoins over x402, the open protocol we are building with a coalition of more than 25 industry leaders via the x402 Foundation.
For 30 years, the web has run on a simple economic bargain: trading content for human attention. That attention has been monetized through advertising, subscriptions, and e-commerce. This bargain funded the Internet as we know it.
But as agents become the dominant Internet users, the model is breaking. An agent does not look at ads or need to maintain a monthly subscription to all the tools it wants to access. It reads a page or consumes a data feed once, takes what it needs, and moves on. Across the web, AI crawlers already request Continue reading