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Sean Michael Kerner
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While Wi-Fi 7 adoption is accelerating among enterprises, retail Wi-Fi 8 products could arrive as early as summer 2026. @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4112...
Wi-Fi 8 in 2026: Next-gen wireless standard prioritizes reliability over speed gains
While Wi-Fi 7 adoption is accelerating among enterprises, retail Wi-Fi 8 products could arrive as early as summer 2026. Wi-Fi 8 is aimed at boosting reliability and lowering latency in dense, interfer...
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January 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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What do i think will happen to the data world in 2026? Here are my six predictions....
December 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Mapping the core projects (SONiC, Cilium, DPDK) and foundations (LFN, CNCF) driving data center, 5G, and Kubernetes connectivity. @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4107...
The state of open-source networking: The foundations and technologies driving today’s networks
Mapping the core projects (SONiC, Cilium, DPDK) and foundations (LFN, CNCF) driving data center, 5G, and Kubernetes connectivity.
www.networkworld.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The headline feature in Kubernetes 1.35 is general availability for in-place pod resource adjustments...The capability fundamentally changes how administrators manage container resources in production clusters.

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Kubernetes 1.35 enables zero-downtime resource scaling for production cloud workloads
Kubernetes 1.35, dubbed 'Treenetes,' delivers in-place pod resource adjustments, a capability that benefits AI training workloads and edge computing deployments.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
RAG isn't working for agentic AI but a new open-source approach called Hindsight could be the solution - bringing more context and actual insight.

"RAG is on life support, and agent memory is about to kill it entirely.."

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With 91% accuracy, open source Hindsight agentic memory provides 20/20 vision for AI agents stuck on failing RAG
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December 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
There's a lot of complexity when it comes to cloud costs...but that's where the FinOps Foundation is bringing discipline with its FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS).

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FinOps Foundation sharpens FOCUS to reduce cloud cost chaos
FinOps Foundation releases FOCUS 1.3 to address cloud cost management data gaps.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Linux 6.18: All About the New Long-Term Support Linux Kernel: thenewstack.io/linux-6-18-a... via @thenewstack.io & @sjvn.bsky.social

What exactly is Long Term Support #Linux, and what's in the latest LTS Linux kernel?
Linux 6.18: All About the New Long-Term Support Linux Kernel
The newest version of the Linux kernel offers two years of long-term support, plus upgrades to the slab memory allocator, security hardening and more.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Traditional monitoring tools generally struggle to provide the granular, function-level data AI agents need to understand how code actually behaves in complex production environments.
It's time for devs to get a ...heads-up display (Hud) on what's really going on.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The challenge with vendor-provided benchmarks is that they are just that — vendor-provided.

A new vendor-neutral evaluation from Prolific, however, puts Gemini 3 at the top of the leaderboard base on a HUMAINE evaluation with 26,000 users

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Gemini 3 Pro scores 69% trust in blinded testing of 26,000 users: The case for evaluating AI on real-world trust, not academic benchmarks
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December 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Could a new RSL protocol help address the power imbalance between publishers and AI companies? There's potential but the plan needs some more teeth. I spoke with @techjournalist.bsky.social at @techtargetnews.bsky.social www.techtarget.com/searchcio/fe... #CIOsky #AIcopyright #AItraining
What CIOs need to know about the RSL protocol | TechTarget
The Real Simple Licensing (RSL) protocol offers clarity and revenue opportunities for web content, but has security, compliance, and adoption challenges.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Everyone uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 for cloud object storage... But will everyone use it for vectors too, now that Amazon S3 Vectors is GA? What does it mean for vector database vendors?
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AWS claims 90% vector cost savings with S3 Vectors GA, calls it 'complementary' - analysts split on what that means for vector databases
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December 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Akamai's acquisition of Fermyon could bring more users to Wasm, which is gaining momentum as the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) specification nears standardization. www.networkworld.com/article/4099... @networkworld.bsky.social
Akamai acquires Fermyon for edge computing as WebAssembly comes of age
Akamai's acquisition of Fermyon could bring more users to Wasm, which is gaining momentum as the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) specification nears standardization.
www.networkworld.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I was writing about data labeling long before ChatGPT existed. Like many, I had (erroneously) thought that it wasn't necessary in the modern agentic AI era - I was wrong.

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November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Aria Networks is targeting AI scale-out with a microsecond telemetry approach. @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4095...
Apstra founder launches Aria to tackle AI networking performance
Aria Networks is targeting AI scale-out with a microsecond telemetry approach.
www.networkworld.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“Networking is going through actually a bigger change than people realize, because of many factors..” Anil Varanasi, Meter co-founder and CEO, told @networkworld.bsky.social . www.networkworld.com/article/4093...
Meter ups its NaaS portfolio with new hardware, autonomous operations
NaaS startup Meter unveiled new wireless access points, switches, firewalls, and cellular gateways, all of which run identical firmware.
www.networkworld.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Context engineering is all fine and nice. But semantics and ontologies take AI to another level. Microsoft is now..igniting (sorry i couldn't resist) this approach with Fabric IQ. @venturebeat.com

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November 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Microsoft keeps pushing more and more AI into Windows. But is that what its users want, or is that what Microsoft thinks they want? zdnet.com/article/micr... via @zdnet.bsky.social
Microsoft is packing more AI into Windows, ready or not - here's what's new
Microsoft is clearly excited about all this AI infiltrating Windows, but are its users as excited? Not quite. Here's why.
zdnet.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
StarlingX cranks open-source cloud network infrastructure to 11. www.networkworld.com/article/4090... @networkworld.bsky.social
StarlingX 11.0 addresses edge security, IPv4 exhaustion for massive deployments
StarlingX cranks open-source cloud network infrastructure to 11.
www.networkworld.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The 'Ouroboros problem' of AI evaluation that Databricks Judge Builder might just solve...with a little help from humans (yay humans!)

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November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Snowflake has a lot of news out today at its BUILD conference..but it is one piece of news in particular that I think will make all the difference.

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November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I personally have a love/hate relationship with SQL - but most AI devs don't want any such thing..they just want to use Python. That's where dltHub comes in as the lead backer behind the open-source dlt library.
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Enterprise data engineering revolution: How dltHub's Python open-source platform transforms data pipeline creation for agentic AI | Sean M. Kerner
I personally have a love/hate relationship with SQL - but most AI devs don't want any such thing..they just want to use Python. That's where dltHub comes in as the lead backer behind the open-source d...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I've had the good fortune to connect with David Belson on internet topics a bunch over the years. At Cloudflare he's now been working on some new insights on Top Level Domains and there are more than few surprises in the findings...

www.networkworld.com/article/4081...
What's the most malicious TLD? Cloudflare reveals surprising risks, usage patterns
Cloudflare identifies high-risk top-level domains, with .motorcycles ranking No. 1 among the most abused TLDs.
www.networkworld.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I've been a believer in streaming data for a long time...but so much of the AI-data conversation has been about static data. That's now changing and real-time data streaming that bakes in Apache Kafka and Apache Flink from Confluent is bringing the context.

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October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
GitHub wants to be the control point for agentic AI
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October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
There is still some hesitation about AI - but Intuit is figuring out how to work the way its users want to work.

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October 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM