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The First Nepal School on Internet Governance

In January 2018, the Internet Society Nepal Chapter organized the first Nepal School on Internet Governance (npSIG) in collaboration with the Forum for Digital Equality. The initiative offered an intensive two-day learning course covering a wide list of topics at the Institute of Engineering Pulchowk in Kathmandu. The initiative helped participants to identify global and regional issues and facilitate the understanding of several aspects of Internet Governance, including access, diversity, security, privacy, IoT, and human rights within the Nepalese policy framework. The schedule included theoretical sessions, roleplays, and attendee engagement activities. All brilliant speakers presentations are available on sig.org.np for further consultation.

One of the major objectives of npSIG was to raise awareness among young people about Internet Governance issues and to promote their participation in the discussion. The speakers inspired analysis, critical thinking and motivated the audience to design effective questions and take action.

How can we manage the Internet’s evolution in our country?

The opening speech delivered by Baburam Aryal, Chairperson at the Forum for Digital Equality, enhanced the understanding of the Internet Governance concept, which in Nepal is in the very early stages of development. The establishment of a proper ecosystem is complex as Continue reading

Worth Reading: Silver linings and clouds

Clearly, your management has never heard the phrase, “You get what you pay for.” Or perhaps they heard it and didn’t realize it applied to them. The savings in cloud computing comes at the expense of a loss of control over your systems, which is summed up best in the popular nerd sticker that says, “The Cloud is Just Other People’s Computers.” —Kode Vicious @ACM

BGP and Traffic Engineering Mechanisms for WISPs

The post BGP and Traffic Engineering Mechanisms for WISPs appeared first on Noction.

Nest Alert: Protection From Pwned* Passwords

A colleague just received an “Urgent Security Alert – Action Requested” email from Nest. At first glance it looked like either a phishing attempt or one of the way-too-often breach notifications we all receive these days. Instead, it was a real alert notifying him that the password he uses for his Nest account had been compromised in a data breach – not at Nest but somewhere else. Nest encouraged him to update to a unique password and enable two-step verification (additional authentication beyond a password, usually referred to as multi-factor authentication).

While it’s not clear exactly how Nest determined that the password was compromised, it could have come from security researcher Troy Hunt’s recently updated Pwned Passwords service (part of his “have i been pwned?” site). Via this service, you can enter a password to see if it matches more than half a billion passwords that have been compromised in data breaches. A hashed version of the full list of passwords can also be downloaded to do local or batch processing. (“Pwned” is video gamer talk for “utterly defeated,” as in “Last time we played, I pwned him.”)

Hunt created this service in response to the National Continue reading

Solar power costs half what coal costs

New solar installs are contributing the same amount of electricity as building one new coal-fueled power station annually in Australia, according to the head of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).“We are essentially seeing the [equivalent] of a new power plant being built every season,” AEMO chief Audrey Zibelman told the Sydney Morning Herald.One reason rooftop adoption in Australia is exploding, the paper wrote, is because of government subsidies. However, there’s another financial driver of alternative power globally, which is the full-lifecycle cost of building and operating — it’s now lower.To read this article in full, please click here

Solar power costs half what coal costs

Hitachi Pulls Itself Together In The Datacenter

Hitachi is a massive multi-national conglomerate that has more than 300,000 employees and 950 subsidiaries and a reach that extends into a wide array of industries, from aircraft and automotive systems to telecommunications, construction, defense and financial services. It also is among the world’s largest IT companies, nestled in there among the likes of Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Samsung. Hitachi’s sprawling technology capabilities ranges from compute and storage appliances in its well-known Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) unit to datacenter management software, data management and business intelligence, and the Internet of Things.

For the past several years, the company …

Hitachi Pulls Itself Together In The Datacenter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Tracking Enterprise Infrastructure Evolution

Experts at Interop ITX discussed how cloud, containers, open source, and other trends are transforming IT infrastructure.

REVIEW: Top application delivery controllers

Enterprise applications are subjected to intense but unpredictable loads. Ensuring consistent application delivery, in line with Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees, requires sophisticated load balancing and related capabilities for clustering, performance management and so forth. Application Delivery Controllers perform these tasks, helping application owners deliver a reliable, fast application user experience.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

REVIEW: Top application delivery controllers

Layers of Single-Pane-of-Glass Abstractions Won’t Solve Your Problems

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We’ve been told for years how we’re over-complicating networking, and how the software-defined or intent-based whatever will remove all that complexity and remove the need for networking engineers.

What never ceases to amaze me is how all these software-defined systems are demonstrated: each one has a fancy GUI that looks great in PowerPoint and might even work in practice assuming you’re doing exactly what they demonstrated… trying to be creative could result in interesting disasters.

CIO Leadership Live with Jack Clare, CIO and chief strategy officer at Dunkin’ Brands | Ep 9

In this episode of CIO Leadership Live, host Maryfran Johnson talks with Jack Clare, CIO and chief strategy officer at Dunkin' Brands, about the company's mobile payment, ordering and loyalty apps, and how it's striving to improve customers' drive-through experience.

CIO Leadership Live, with guest Jack Clare, CIO and chief strategy officer at Dunkin’ Brands

Progressive growing of GANs for improved quality, stability, and variation

Progressive growing of GANs for improved quality, stability, and variation Karras et al., ICLR’18

Let’s play “spot the celebrity”! (Not your usual #themorningpaper fodder I know, but bear with me…)

In each row, one of these is a photo of a real person, the other image is entirely created by a GAN. But which is which?

The man on the left, and the woman on the right, are both figments of a computer’s imagination.

In today’s paper, Karras et al. demonstrate a technique for producing high-resolution (e.g. 1024×1024) realistic looking images using GANs:

The key idea is to grow both the generator and discriminator progressively: starting from a low resolution, we add new layers that model increasingly fine details as training progresses. This both speeds the training up and greatly stabilizes it, allowing us to produce images of unprecedented quality.

You can find all of the code, links to plenty of generated images, and videos of image interpolation here: https://github.com/tkarras/progressive_growing_of_gans. This six-minute results video really showcases the work in a way that it’s hard to describe without seeing. Well worth the time if this topic interests you.

Progression

Recall that in a GAN setup we pitch a Continue reading

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7 free network tools you must have

"I am all about useful tools. One of my mottos is 'the right tool for the right job.'" –Martha StewartIf your "right job" involves wrangling computer networks and figuring out how to do digital things effectively and efficiently or diagnosing why digital things aren't working as they're supposed to, you've got your hands full. Not only does your job evolve incredibly quickly becoming evermore complex, but whatever tools you use need frequent updating and/or replacing to keep pace, and that's what we're here for; to help in your quest for the right tools.[ Don’t miss customer reviews of top remote access tools and see the most powerful IoT companies . | Get daily insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] We've done several roundups of free network tools in the past, and since the last one, technology has, if anything, sped up even more. To help you keep up, we've compiled a new shortlist of seven of the most useful tools that you should add to your toolbox.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

7 free networking tools you must have

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