CDC opens state ordering for COVID-19 vaccines after unexplained delay
Health department previously blamed delay on "not yet finalized procurement decisions."
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Databricks buys Row Zero and is scouting for more startups to acquire
Databricks has brought cloud spreadsheet startup Row Zero, adding yet another acquisition to its 2026 shopping spree.
NASA chief concerned China may deny access to parts of Moon's south pole
"If you come up short with who comes down the ladder first, the impact is felt around the world."
Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public
Matt Rosoff chairs a Register roundtable with HPE and NVIDIA on data sovereignty in the AI era, off the record, in Washington
Talk of AI in KDE sets the community ablaze
A desktop pitch and an attempt to curb LLM slop descended into very human mayhem
City council may be waking from its Oracle nightmare but the accounting hangover continues
Europe's largest local authority still cannot get auditors to vouch for its books as historic data problems linger
DNS News Today — September 24, 2026
Here's the Torcal, the first fully electric Bentley and more — today's dns signal.
Here's the Torcal, the first fully electric Bentley
It sounds like a V8, rides like a Flying Spur, but handles like a Continental GT.
Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
"So absurd and embarrassing ..."
Shadow roots, explained with live examples
Tool: Shadow roots, explained with live examples Prompt to Fable 5.1 Medium: Build an artifact to explain shadow roots in CSS with interactive examples Tags: css
Academic publisher Elsevier hit by LAPSUS$ redirect attack
Customers got crime crew's calling card instead of access to journals
The more Americans hear about datacenters, the less they like them
Pew finds growing concern over their effects on energy bills, the environment, and nearby communities
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1.1.1.1 now supports post-quantum DNSSEC, all 2,420 bytes of it
1.1.1.1 now validates DNSSEC signatures using NIST’s post-quantum ML-DSA-44 algorithm. Here is how we manage 2,420-byte signatures and downgrade risks at scale.
How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare's fleet.
Preventing Internet Route Hijack with SIDRops Technology
Route hijack attacks cause malicious rerouting of Internet traffic by exploiting the trusting nature of the Internet’s routing system. During the summer of 2025, a route hijack attack affected the Domain Name System’s (DNS) root servers. If it were more widely deployed, technolo
Applied Network Research Prize presentations at IETF 110
A pair of presentations featured during the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Open session of the IETF 110 Online meeting (8-12 March 2021) will highlight the application of machine learning to video bit-rate adaptation and Domain Name System (DNS) caching and privacy.
Learning About the Domain Name System (DNS) from its Terminology
An RFC updating DNS terminology was recently published, continuing a decades-long IETF practice of publishing documents to help introduce interested readers to protocol topics by going through the most important terms.
DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Operational and Privacy Issues
The DoH specification in RFC 8484 defines a standardized format and protocol for sending Domain Name System (DNS) queries through HTTP rather than the traditional DNS protocol.
Herding the DNS Camel
Bert Hubert, the founder of PowerDNS and author of RFC 5452, shares his views on forces influencing DNS protocol development.
Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI
The Silicon Valley firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period.
2026 just became the year of FreeBSD on the (Amazonian cloud) desktop
Desktop AMIs ‘designed to behave as much like Windows as possible’ now available as an on ramp for new users
Google Gemini can present cartoon or lifelike avatars to lip-sync generative chatter
Despite uncertainty about how human mimicry affects people, DeepMind fakes are here
Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs
Operator’s AI bill averaged just $25 per completed scan
Waymo is scaling fast: Here’s what the fleet data shows
In the past month, Waymo has expanded its fleet in Texas by 49%. There are other hot spots as well.
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