You Don’t Know Jack about Bandwidth
Fixes to IP networking help ISPs and other companies make better use of their bandwidth.
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How Laser Communications Are Improving Satellites
Demonstrations indicate that laser communications could deliver significantly higher bandwidth than RF, with reduced size, weight, and power requirements on satellites.
Leveraging SaaS and Cloud Solutions for Enhanced Business Agility
Companies that invest in SaaS and cloud solutions improve operations and position themselves for long-term success.
mCaptcha: Replacing Captchas with Rate Limiters to Improve Security and Accessibility
An overview of mCaptcha, a variable-difficulty-based proof-of-work captcha system that addresses the security, usability, and privacy issues with other captchas.
Elevating Security with Arm CCA
RME introduces a new kind of confidential compute environment called a realm.
A Brief History of Blockchain Interoperability
Four trends shaping today's interconnected blockchain ecosystems.
Cloud computing poses challenges for systems that require confidentiality.
Many public agencies already have tracking and communications technologies embedded in their emergency and transit vehicles.
Nobel Laureates Consider the State of Quantum Computing
Most experts are reluctant to predict when a large-scale quantum computer will be commercialized.
Cybersecurity in Industrial IoT: Protecting Critical Infrastructure
Today's IIoT environments demand sophisticated, multi-layered security strategies.
Global Auto Dealer Management Systems Hacked
Lawsuits claim the attacks exposed consumers' personal information and stopped dealerships' sales, financing, servicing, and payroll operations.
How Today’s Recommender Systems Use Machine Learning to Cater to Your Every Whim
Today’s recommender systems, driven by sophisticated models, are able to increasingly personalize your online experience.
Security Challenges of Intent-Based Networking
Intent-based networking allows operators to describe the high-level intent of what they want a network to do.
Technical Perspective: Tracing the Network Traffic Fingerprinting Techniques of OpenVPN
"OpenVPN is Open to VPN Fingerprinting," by Diwen Xue et al., investigates network traffic fingerprinting of a very popular privacy technique—OpenVPN.
OpenVPN Is Open to VPN Fingerprinting
In this paper, we explore the implications of deep packet inspection for VPN detection and blocking.
Technical Perspective: Creating the Internet of Biological and Bio-Inspired Things
"mSAIL: Milligram-Scale Multi-modal Sensor Platform for Monarch Butterfly Migration Tracking," by Inhee Lee et al., describes a critical milestone in the mobile system community’s efforts toward creating the Internet of biological things.
mSAIL: Milligram-Scale Multi-Modal Sensor Platform for Monarch Butterfly Migration Tracking
We propose a wireless sensing platform, mSAIL, specifically designed for a monarch butterfly migration study based on previously developed custom-designed ICs.
Human Intuition and Algorithmic Efficiency Must Be Balanced to Enhance Data Mesh Resilience
Data mesh management with a human touch.
Vendor-Locked DevOps Strategies
Cloud-agnostic and vendor-locked strategies are two sides of the same coin.
Adopting and Sustaining Microservice-Based Software Development
The microservice approach to software development offers an alternative to the conventional monolith style.
More Efficient Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Researchers are exploring ways to reduce a quantum system's lopsided ratio of error-correction qubits to logical qubits.
Dynamic Placement in Refugee Resettlement
In this paper, we design an online algorithm for refugee allocation.
Technical Perspective: Improving Refugees’ Integration with Online Resource Allocation
"Dynamic Placement in Refugee Resettlement," by Narges Ahani et al., applies online resource allocation concepts to a new and important area: refugee resettlement.
Ensuring Business Continuity with Backup Cloud Storage Choices
A properly selected backup data storage solution will help ensure the safety and reliability of your data, which is a vital aspect of any business's successful and stable operation.
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