The Most Interesting AI Breakthrough This Week Is a Packet Header
OpenAI's new MRC protocol is a nice reminder that the real AI bottleneck is often the plumbing, not the press release.
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The Router Change That Deleted Facebook
Meta's 2021 outage was a masterclass in how one backbone mistake can take DNS, tooling, and recovery down with it.
NABU Invented Cloud Streaming in 1982 and Nobody Cared
A Canadian computer from 1982 did cloud streaming before the internet existed — then 2,200 units sat in a barn for 23 years.
The Six-Hour Vanishing: A BGP Tragedy in Three Acts
One routine command, one silent backbone, and half the planet mashing refresh in unison.
Three Years. CVSS 10.0. Your WAN Was Never Yours.
CVE-2026-20127 is a maximum-severity auth bypass in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN that nation-state actors have been exploiting since 2023. Cisco disclosed it last week.
TCP Retransmits: The Quiet Fire Alarm in Your Metrics
If p99 is drifting and dashboards look normal, retransmits are often the first honest signal.
When the Safety Net Eats the Trapeze Artist
The Facebook outage of October 2021 wasn't about BGP. It was about what happens when your safety mechanisms assume partial failure — and you get total failure.