It has been two and a half months since new chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan gave the keynote at Intel’s Vision 2025 event, and the company has been relatively quiet by its own standards over the past several decades as Tan gets the lay of the land and tries to plot out the course of the company to rebuild its foundry business and reorient and focus its chip design and sales business. …
Intel Starts Re-Engineering Its Executive Ranks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We are thrilled to announce the General Availability of Cloudflare Log Explorer, a powerful new product designed to bring observability and forensics capabilities directly into your Cloudflare dashboard. Built on the foundation of Cloudflare's vast global network, Log Explorer leverages the unique position of our platform to provide a comprehensive and contextualized view of your environment.
Security teams and developers use Cloudflare to detect and mitigate threats in real-time and to optimize application performance. Over the years, users have asked for additional telemetry with full context to investigate security incidents or troubleshoot application performance issues without having to forward data to third party log analytics and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools. Besides avoidable costs, forwarding data externally comes with other drawbacks such as: complex setups, delayed access to crucial data, and a frustrating lack of context that complicates quick mitigation.
Log Explorer has been previewed by several hundred customers over the last year, and they attest to its benefits:
“Having WAF logs (firewall events) instantly available in Log Explorer with full context — no waiting, no external tools — has completely changed how we manage our firewall rules. I can spot an issue, adjust the Continue reading
You can deploy a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on Cloudflare in just one-click. Don’t believe us? Click the button below.
This will get you started with a remote MCP server that supports the latest MCP standards and is the reason why thousands of remote MCP servers have been deployed on Cloudflare, including ones from companies like Atlassian, Linear, PayPal, and more.
But deploying servers is only half of the equation — we also wanted to make it just as easy to build and deploy remote MCP clients that can connect to these servers to enable new AI-powered service integrations. That's why we built use-mcp
, a React library for connecting to remote MCP servers, and we're excited to contribute it to the MCP ecosystem to enable more developers to build remote MCP clients.
Today, we're open-sourcing two tools that make it easy to build and deploy MCP clients:
use-mcp — A React library that connects to any remote MCP server in just 3 lines of code, with transport, authentication, and session management automatically handled. We're excited to contribute this library to the MCP ecosystem to enable more developers to build remote MCP clients.
Another scary tale from the Archives of Sloppy Code: we can’t decide whether some attributes are mandatory or optional.
When I was fixing the errors in netlab SR-OS configuration templates, I couldn’t get the EBGP-based EVPN with overlapping leaf AS numbers to work. I could see the EVPN routes in the SR-OS BGP table, but the device refused to use them. I concluded (incorrectly) that there must be a quirk in the SR-OS EVPN code and moved on.
You may recall from my post about Cisco Live last year that I talked about legacy and passing the torch to a new generation of people being active at the event. It was a moment where I was happy for what was occurring and thrilled to see the continuation of the community. It’s now a year later and I have a very different outlook on Cisco Live that isn’t nearly as rosy. Which is why I asked the question in the post title.
If you are a Cisco customer or partner that wants the latest news about Cisco products and services then Cisco Live is the place you need to be to get them. Sure, you can watch the keynotes virtually and read all the press releases online. However, if you really want to get up close and personal with the technology you have to be there. After all, it was this need to be in-person that inspired our community in the first place. We showed up. We met up. And we made the event even better because we were there.
That was then. 2025 is a different story. The first hints about the situation came when I Continue reading
If you’ve managed traffic in Kubernetes, you’ve likely navigated the world of Ingress controllers. For years, Ingress has been the standard way of getting our HTTP/S services exposed. But let’s be honest, it often felt like a compromise. We wrestled with controller-specific annotations to unlock critical features, blurred the lines between infrastructure and application concerns, and sometimes wished for richer protocol support or a more standardized approach. This “pile of vendor annotations,” while functional, highlighted the limitations of a standard that struggled to keep pace with the complex demands of modern, multi-team environments and even led to security vulnerabilities.
Yes, and it’s a crucial one. The Kubernetes Gateway API isn’t just an Ingress v2; it’s a fundamental redesign, the “future” of Kubernetes ingress, built by the community to address these very challenges head-on.
There are three main points that I came across while evaluating GatewayAPI and Ingress controllers:
Given two endpoints and a compound annual growth rate between those two points over a specific amount of time is not as useful as it seems. …
Picking Apart AMD’s AI Accelerator Forecasts For Fun And Budgets was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Based on the feedback I received on LinkedIn and in private messages, I made all my IPv6 content public; you can watch those videos without an ipSpace.net account.
Want to spend more time watching free ipSpace.net videos? The complete list is here.
Some heavy hitters like Intel, IBM, and Google along with a growing number of smaller startups for the past couple of decades have been pushing the development of neuromorphic computing, hardware that looks to mimic the structure and function of the human brain. …
Sandia Deploys SpiNNaker2 Neuromorphic System was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
TL&DR: netlab release 25.06 was published last week.
Before discussing the new features, let’s walk the elephant out of the room: I changed the release versions to YY.MM scheme, so I will never again have to waste my time on the existential question of which number in the release specification to increase.
Now for the new features:
I have heard and been heard via QO-100! As a licensed radio amateur have sent signals via satellite as far away as Brazil.
QO-100 is the first geostationary satellite with an amateur radio payload. A “repeater”, if you will. Geostationary means that you just aim your antenna (dish) once, and you can use it forever.
This is amazing for tweaking and experimenting. Other amateur radio satellites are only visible in the sky for minutes at a time, and you have to chase them across the sky to make a contact before it’s gone.
They also fly lower, meaning they can only see a small part of the world at a time. QO-100 can at all times see and be seen by all of Africa, Europe, India, and parts of Brazil.
Other “birds” (satellites) can be accessed using a normal handheld FM radio and something like an arrow antenna. Well, you should actually have two radios, so that you can hear yourself on the downlink while transmitting.
There are also linear amateur radio satellites. For them you need SSB radios, which narrows down which radios you can use. And you still need Continue reading
The screen capture is from a containerlab topology that emulates a AI compute cluster connected by a leaf and spine network. The metrics include:
Note: Clicking on peaks in the charts shows values at that time.
This article gives step-by-step instructions to run the demonstration.
git clone https://github.com/sflow-rt/containerlab.gitDownload the sflow-rt/containerlab project from GitHub.
git clone https://github.com/sflow-rt/containerlab.git cd containerlab ./run-clabRun the above commands Continue reading
While the world continues to fixate on AI, there are still plenty of high performance computing workloads that need doing and a speedup to any one part can have a big impact, whether it be computational fluid dynamics, material analysis, or something else. …
Laser-Based Compute Promises To Light The Way To Faster Physics Sims was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
AI chatbots and image creators are all the rage right now–we are using them for everything from coding to writing books to creating short movies. One question we do not ask often enough, though, is how this impact human creators. How will these tools shape creativity and thinking skills?