Networking

Privacy & Data 6 min Looking up a MAC address by its first three bytes misses the holders of smaller IEEE blocks A MAC address carries two flag bits and, for a factory address, the organisation that bought its block from th... PR Priya Nair 14 Oct Cyber Threat Intel 4 min The MikroTik Router Takeover Used a Different Flaw Than First Reported. The Same Updates Fix It. CERT Polska now says the chain pairs CVE-2026-67279 with CVE-2026-86060. Routers updated in early September ar... PR Priya Nair 27 Sep ASEAN Tech 11 min Two ASEAN countries tie your broadband to the speed you were sold, and only one checks Malaysia requires 90% of your subscribed fibre speed and collects the results quarterly. Thailand sets 70% of... SA Sarah Chew 20 Sep Developer Tools 8 min No ASEAN country has opened the whole 6 GHz band, and China opened none of it Six ASEAN countries released the bottom 500 MHz of the 6 GHz band and stopped; the United States released all... KE Kenji Tanaka 19 Sep Developer Tools 6 min 127.0.0.1 is one of sixteen million loopback addresses IPv4 reserved the whole of 127.0.0.0/8 for loopback, and the RFC that did it never names 127.0.0.1. Whether th... KE Kenji Tanaka 18 Sep Developer Tools 5 min Cornelis Raised $205m to Put RISC-V Cores in the Network Fabric The claim is five to ten points of GPU utilisation back. It is specific enough to falsify, and it depends enti... KE Kenji Tanaka 16 Sep Cybersecurity 6 min The DMARC tag that meant 10% of the time now means all the time RFC 9989 removed the pct tag in May 2026, and the same document says receivers must ignore tags that are not r... KE Kenji Tanaka 4 Sep Developer Tools 4 min How to Set Up Caddy as a Reverse Proxy with Docker Caddy gets certificates without being asked, which is why it is the right first reverse proxy. The confusion s... KE Kenji Tanaka 31 Aug Cloud & Infra 8 min AWS Cut 69% of Its Routers by Wiring Data Centres at Random AWS abandoned shortest-path routing for a deliberately near-random fabric with thousands of equivalent paths.... KE Kenji Tanaka 31 Aug Cloud & Infra 4 min How Much of the Internet the Big Clouds Hold Add up Amazon's published address file and you get 188 million. The real figure is 101,829,252, because the sa... KE Kenji Tanaka 21 Aug Cloud & Infra 5 min How Far Away the Cloud Is From Singapore A dropdown asks which region, and most people pick the familiar name. Measured from a server in Singapore, the... KE Kenji Tanaka 21 Aug Developer Tools 6 min Your AI API Call Leaves the Country From a server in Singapore, OpenAI's API accepts a connection in 6.2ms and takes 237ms to say anything. Anthro... MA Maya Lin 19 Aug Developer Tools 6 min Your Bank Is Still on IPv4 We asked DNS whether 18 institutions across six ASEAN economies — the largest bank, the government portal and... MA Maya Lin 19 Aug Consumer Tech 6 min How Much Internet Speed Do I Need? Stop Multiplying by People The usual method — one person's needs times the number of people — assumes a connection gets divided. We measu... AM Amelia Wong 11 Aug Developer Tools 6 min Latency vs Bandwidth: Which One Are You Actually Waiting For? Internet plans are sold in one number, and for most of what you do all day it is the smaller half of the answe... KE Kenji Tanaka 11 Aug Consumer Tech 8 min Why Is My Wi-Fi Slow? Usually, It Is Not the Wi-Fi A page load is five separate stages, and the radio is only involved in one of them. Timed across three real si... AM Amelia Wong 10 Aug Cloud & Infra 8 min Singapore Has Warned About Cisco More Times in 2026 Than in Any Full Year Before It We read all 847 CSA alerts since 2020. Cisco leads every vendor, 2026 is already the heaviest Cisco year on re... KE Kenji Tanaka 8 Aug