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The Week in Internet News: Google to Pay Some News Publishers

News isn’t free: Google has announced it will pay some news publishers in a “new news experience” it is rolling out later this year, TechCrunch reports. News outlets in Germany, Australia, and Brazil are among the first group of publishers that have signed on. The goal is to “help participating publishers monetize their content through an enhanced storytelling experience that lets people go deeper into more complex stories, stay informed and be exposed to a world of different issues and interests,” Google says.

AI in HR: Japanese companies are turning to artificial intelligence to help hire employees, Japan Times says. SoftBank says it has cut labor time by 75 percent by using AI to sift through tens of thousands of resumes. Still, some companies are concerned about AI giving them inappropriate or discriminatory decisions.

Attacking encryption: Three U.S. Senators have introduced legislation that would require tech companies to help law enforcement agencies defeat end-to-end encryption, PC Mag reports. The Republican bill would allow courts to order companies to bypass encryption when police agencies request it.

More broadband for all: In the meantime, a group of U.S. representatives has introduced legislation to spend $100 billion to deploy fiber-based broadband Continue reading

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Catching up with Workers KV

The Workers Distributed Data team has been hard at work since we gave you an update last November. Today, we’d like to share with you some of the stuff that has recently shipped in Workers KV: a new feature and an internal change that should significantly improve latency in some cases. Let’s dig in!

KV Metadata

Workers KV has a fairly straightforward interface: you can put keys and values into KV, and then fetch the value back out by key:

await contents.put(“index.html”, someHtmlContent);
await contents.put(“index.css”, someCssContent);
await contents.put(“index.js”, someJsContent);

// later

let index = await contents.get(“index.html”);

Pretty straightforward. But as you can see from this example, you may store different kinds of content in KV, even if the type is identical. All of the values are strings, but one is HTML, one is CSS, and one is JavaScript. If we were going to serve this content to users, we would have to construct a response. And when we do, we have to let the client know what the content type of that request is: text/html for HTML, text/css for CSS, and text/javascript for JavaScript. If we serve the incorrect content type to Continue reading

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Ampere announces 128-core Arm server processor

Ampere – the semiconductor startup founded by former Intel executive Renee James and not to be confused with the new line of Nvidia cards – just introduced a 128-core, Arm-based server processor to complement its 80-core part.The new processor, Altra Max, comes just three months after the company launched its first product, the 80-core Altra. Ampere says the new processor will be fully socket compatible with the existing part so customers can just do a chip swap if they want. Ampere "This is not replacing Altra," says Jeff Wittich, senior vice president of products at Ampere and one of many ex-Intel executives at Ampere. "I expect there will be workloads and customers who will use Altra and Altra Max together for a long time. Anything suited for Max will be suited for Altra for a long time."To read this article in full, please click here

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CEX (Code EXpress) 11. Working with files and parsing CSV.

Hello my friend,

With this post we start the second series of the Code EXpress (CEX) blogposts covering Python (namely, Python 3.8) basics for the network engineers. Previously we have covered the most simple elements and heading now to more complex scenarios.

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What are we going to do today?

In today’s blogpost we are going to cover the basics of the working with file in Python. Despite there are multiple ways how you can do, we will share, we believe, one of the most popular and convenient way:

• Using context manager with … as … you will open the CSV file in your Python script.
• Using Continue reading

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Next Platform TV for Monday, June 28

Today we look at an evaluation of AMD versus Nvidia GPUs for HPC applications, we also consider infrastructure for AI in production drug discovery, and in a completely different direction, we talk to Danny Shapiro, head of automotive at Nvidia about the datacenter requirements for future autonomous vehicles. …

Next Platform TV for Monday, June 28 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

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Anatomy of the “kubernetes.default”

Every Kubernetes cluster is provisioned with a special service that provides a way for internal applications to talk to the API server. However, unlike the rest of the components that get spun up by default, you won’t find the definition of this service in any of the static manifests and this is just one of the many things that make this service unique.

The Special One

To make sure we’re on the same page, I’m talking about this:

$ kubect get svc kubernetes -n default
NAME         TYPE        CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)   AGE
kubernetes   ClusterIP   10.96.0.1    <none>        443/TCP   161m

This service is unique in many ways. First, as you may have noticed, it always occupies the first available IP in the Cluster CIDR, a.k.a. --service-cluster-ip-range.

Second, this service is invincible, i.e. it will always get re-created, even when it’s manually removed:

$ kubectl get svc
NAME         TYPE        CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)   AGE
kubernetes   ClusterIP   10.96.0.1    <none>        443/TCP   118s
$ kubectl delete svc kubernetes
service "kubernetes" deleted
$ kubectl get svc
NAME         TYPE        CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)   AGE
kubernetes   ClusterIP   10.96.0.1    <none>        443/TCP   0s

You may notice that it comes up with the Continue reading

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Jinja2 Tutorial – Part 3 – Whitespace control

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Weekend Reads 062620

A little late, but still…

In the recent GitHub Satellite online conference, one of the most exciting product announcements was GitHub Codespaces. The idea is to have a code button on every repository. —Michael Yuan

High impact vulnerabilities in modern communication protocol used by mobile network operators (MNOs) can be exploited to intercept user data and carry out impersonation, fraud, and denial of service (DoS) attacks, cautions a newly published research. —Ravie Lakshmanan

I want to explain the cost structure that firms, and in particular technology companies, must manage. I absorbed these lessons by studying the financial documents and annual reports of companies that perhaps you aspire to work for or whose products you may use and enjoy. —Adam Naor

As a search engine optimization (SEO) and domain name consultant, one of the questions I get asked most often about domain names is whether or not the domain name or TLD (Top-Level Domain) matters. Will the domain name ending have an effect on SEO or search engine rankings. Are certain domain name endings preferred by the search engines over other domain name extensions? I decided to answer this question based on search engine optimization testing and not just on my Continue reading

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USB to Serial Console from MacOS

How to connect to a serial port via a USB to serial adapter from MacOS.

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ServiceNow Boosts Data Centre Capacity in Europe

ServiceNow is increasing investment in its data centre infrastructure by developing new facilities...

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Cryptojackers Target Docker Containers for Monero Mining

Palo Alto Networks and Aqua Security researchers say cryptojackers are inserting malicious images...

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Daily Roundup: HPE Sells Software Strategy

HPE rolled out a new software strategy and software brand, Ezmeral; AWS sweetened the no-code pot;...

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SES Launches Space WAN From Orbit

RCS Communications is SES's first SD-WAN customer, and it's using SD-WAN to enhance and fortify its...

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Huawei Cops To Lack of US Ambition

“We don’t necessarily have any ambition in the U.S. market just because this is such a...

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VMware Tanzu Mission Control Gains Data Protection

The feature allows for central management of data protection of Kubernetes clusters running across...

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Heavy Networking 525: Gluware Automating Terracon’s Network (Sponsored)

Some of our favorite Heavy Networking discussions are with folks deep in the hot aisle making technology work. No slide decks, just engineers doing the thing. How did it go? What do you wish you had done differently? What worked out well? We have one of these chats today with Jamie Hughes, Infrastructure Architect at Terracon. He's rolled out many complex network changes with Gluware's network automation platform.

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Heavy Networking 525: Gluware Automating Terracon’s Network (Sponsored)

Some of our favorite Heavy Networking discussions are with folks deep in the hot aisle making technology work. No slide decks, just engineers doing the thing. How did it go? What do you wish you had done differently? What worked out well? We have one of these chats today with Jamie Hughes, Infrastructure Architect at Terracon. He's rolled out many complex network changes with Gluware's network automation platform.

The post Heavy Networking 525: Gluware Automating Terracon’s Network (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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Closing the Digital Divide in Nepal

COVID-19 has pushed the world into a digital revolution and closing Nepal’s digital divide has never been more important.

Nepal is a landlocked least developed country, and according to the International Telecommunication Union, less than 20% of its population are online compared to 87% in developed countries.

While connecting some of Nepal’s most remote places isn’t easy, two community network projects are case studies of how it can be done. They are Wireless for Communities (W4C) Nepal and Rural Communities Access to Information Society (RUCCESS), both supported by the Internet Society.

Community networks are networks built, managed and used by local communities. They are often established in rural and remote areas that are not commercially viable for Internet service providers (ISPs). The networks are often built using low-cost WiFi equipment and unlicensed spectrum bands to interconnect members of the community and improve their lives.

W4C Nepal

W4C Nepal was launched in the aftermath of the Gorkha Earthquake in April 2015, in partnership with the Nepal Wireless Networking Project, an initiative of Mahabir Pun, an Internet Hall of Fame recipient and winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award.

Using wireless networks, all powered by solar panels as the villages are Continue reading

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 26th, 2020

Hey, it's HighScalability time!

Number Stuff:

Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading)...

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VMware NSX-T Service Insertion and Gigamon GigaVUE Cloud Suite

We are delighted that our valued partner, Gigamon, and it’s GigaVUE Cloud Suite has met the certification requirements for VMware NSX-T  service insertion. 

Service Insertion for NSX-T

The concept of service insertion is key for the NSX platform, enabling users to seamlessly add third party applications at various points throughout the network. Having a robust ecosystem of partners provides maximum flexibility for NSX-T, allowing customers to add partner functionality, tailored to their unique requirements without degrading performance elsewhere in the software-defined data center (SDDC). Partner applications are put through a rigorous certification process ensuring the highest level of interoperability and reliability.

With the certification, GigaVUE Cloud Suite is now interoperable with VMware’s NSX-T and vCenter Server through APIs for improved agility and reduced manual management tasks. Gigamon customers now have comprehensive application visibility across complex hybrid environments, including east-west traffic, at scale.

Learn more

Please join the VMware and Gigamon teams at a joint webinar, Illuminate Applications in VMware-based Clouds to Secure and Optimize, on June 30, 10 am PDT. Learn about NSX service insertion, Gigamon GigaVue, and the advantages and a demo of Gigamon next-generation network visibility solutions.

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