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Text graphic: FCC IDs, eBay and your next radio. Ham-only gear is exempt, out-of-band HTs are not. Effective Oct 13, 2026, 47 CFR 2.803.

FCC IDs, eBay and Your Next Radio: What Hams Need to Know About the New Equipment Rules

New FCC marketplace rules took effect October 13, 2026, and eBay is already asking for FCC IDs.[…]

Text graphic: Why your calls get labeled spam. Attestation, analytics and what the FCC is changing. A, B, C attestation, RMD recertification, KYUP proposed.

STIR/SHAKEN in 2026: Why Your Calls Get Labeled Spam and What the FCC Is Changing

Why do legitimate business calls show up as Spam Likely? A plain-English guide to STIR/SHAKEN attestation, how[…]

Text graphic: Python 3.15 for network engineers. Lazy imports, frozendict, UTF-8 default, new profiler. Python 3.10 end of life October 1, 2026.

Python 3.15 for Network Engineers: Lazy Imports, frozendict and Faster Automation Scripts

Python 3.15 shipped October 9, 2026, and 3.10 is now end of life. Here's what matters for[…]

Text graphic on a dark navy background reading Cryptography in the age of AI and quantum. Real threats. Less hype. With labels RSA and ECC: quantum risk, AES 128: still fine, and FIPS 203, 204, 205, over faint hex ciphertext and a lattice dot pattern

Post-Quantum Cryptography, AI and Q-Day: Real Threats, Less Hype

Post-quantum cryptography is real and the migration clock is running, but AI and quantum computing are not[…]

Front view of a stack of Cisco switches with rows of copper ports, an IE 4010 industrial switch on top and Catalyst 9300 series switches below

AI Agents and Network Engineering: The Train Is Coming, So Get On It

Network engineering is physical, so how does a digital bot take it over? It doesn't, but two[…]

Abstract illustration of stacked network layers, like Purdue model levels, with glowing device nodes and a highlighted DMZ layer that controls the few connections between them

IT/OT Network Segmentation: The Purdue Model Is the Map, IEC 62443 Zones and Conduits Are the Rules

Purdue tells you where things live. IEC 62443 zones and conduits tell you who's allowed to talk.[…]

Screenshot of Chamath Palihapitiya's October 25, 2026 X post on stranded compute and Elon Musk's quote post warning that 200+ neoclouds face guppy-level death

Guppy-Level Death: What Musk’s Neocloud Warning Means, and Why It Rhymes With 2000 and 2008

Musk says 200+ neoclouds face "guppy-level death." Here's what a neocloud is, how GPU-backed debt works, what[…]

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AI Reverse Engineering Isn’t Magic: What’s Really Happening When Software Gets Cloned

Headlines say you can upload an app to a chatbot and get a free clone. Here's what[…]

A glowing data packet travels along fiber paths from a laptop keyboard through network nodes to a GPU server cluster

What Actually Happens When You Hit Enter on an AI Prompt

You hit Enter and words start appearing a second later. Here's the whole trip, traced like a[…]

Home office desk at night with a glass-panel desktop PC and glowing graphics card next to a monitor showing a local AI chat interface

Run Your Own AI at Home for the Price of a Gaming PC

The AI boom made gaming PCs pricier, and a gaming PC is still the cheapest way to[…]

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