IPv6 usage briefly reached 50% across Google services for the first time, marking a major milestone for a protocol created in 1998 to solve IPv4's address shortage. Tom's Hardware reports: [...] IPv6 was dismissed early on as a headache-inducing, hard-to-implement complication that would hardly ever gain any traction -- despite offering 2^128 possible numbers, solving all network number assignments in one fell swoop. That changed over time by force of necessity, and Google's tracking graph shows that for a brief moment in time on March 28, 50% of worldwide users accessed the service over an IPv6 connection, marking a historic first. APNIC's stats show that the protocol is in use by 43% of the world, with Asia and the Americas inching ever close to those 50%. Cloudflare, meanwhile, shows that 40% of traffic is done in IPv6, an actually impressive figure if you consider it's measuring actual transferred packets rather than just counting addresses.

The tried-and-true IPv4 and its well-known 123.456.789.123 format from 1980 offers ~4.3 billion addresses in theory, and around 3.7 billion in practice. That always sounded like a lot, but nobody could have predicted just how rapid the explosion of the Internet would be. IANA, the entity controlling the North-American IPv4 space, ran out of IPv4 addresses around 2011, while its European equivalent RIPE NCC could spare no more four-octet addresses nearly seven years ago in 2019. Asian, African, and Latin-American IP registries equally ran out during that timeframe.

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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, calling it its strongest generally available model and an improvement over Opus 4.6 in areas like software engineering, instruction-following, tool use, and agentic coding. But the company says it is "less broadly capable" than the restricted Claude Mythos Preview, "which Anthropic rolled out to a select group of companies as part of a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing earlier this month," reports CNBC. From the report: The launch of Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday comes after Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.6 in February. Anthropic said the new model outperforms Claude Opus 4.6 across many use cases, including industry benchmarks for agentic coding, multidisciplinary reasoning, scaled tool use and agentic computer use, according to a release. Anthropic said it experimented with efforts to "differentially reduce" Claude Opus 4.7's cyber capabilities during training.

The company encouraged security professionals who are interested in using the model for "legitimate cybersecurity purposes" to apply through a formal verification program. Claude Opus 4.7 is available across all of Anthropic's Claude products, its application programming interface and through cloud providers Microsoft, Google and Amazon. The new model is the same price as Claude Opus 4.6, Anthropic said.

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Isolation party, Mark jeffrey R. Santos

Grave, met Into the Grave. Eerste generatie recht-toe-recht-aan Zweedse death metal. Want hey, we hebben Entombed, Dismember en Unleashed al gehad, en dan mag Grave eigenlijk niet ontbreken.

Buzz has been building in recent weeks among fans of the reclusive, mysterious Scottish electronic duo known as Boards of Canada. It's been 13 years since their last album, and many despaired of ever seeing another release from the Sandison brothers. But recently, music critics started receiving cryptic VHS tapes in the mail featuring the band's hexagon logo. Now the contents of one of the tapes has been posted to the official Boc YouTube channel.

Meanwhile, the Instagram account of Warp Records, the band's label, has posted photos of posters that have recently appeared in London, NYC, and LA, featuring artwork of creepy-looking children that many have hailed as artifacts of BoC's distinctive aesthetic -- a nostalgic, hauntological mix of '70s and '80s influences including science and educational programming; shows about the paranormal, cults, and religious extremism; and schlock media including low-budget horror and porn films.

Ja er kan natuurlijk maar één favoriete secretaresse zijn op de Secretaressedag (zie foto boven), maar een favoriete binnenstad kiezen op de Dag voor de Binnenstad is wel even een stuk lastiger. Vandaag werd die dag in Den Bosch, dat afgelopen jaar de verkiezing voor meest inspirerende binnenstadsproject won, gevierd. Den Bosch, 's-Hertogenbosch onder vrienden van duivelskunstenaar Jheronimus Bosch, kennen we eigenlijk alleen van de Bossche bol, van die overheerlijke Mexicaan en de terrassen. Dus of die stad ook zo'n zware titel als de Mooiste Binnenstad van Nederland kan dragen is op z'n minst twijfelachtig. Want er zijn ook nog steden als Rotterdam (met die mooie terrassen), Den Haag (met die mooie terrassen), Utrecht (met die mooie terrassen), Eindhoven (met die mooie terrassen), Groningen (met die mooie terrassen), Almere (met die m...), Tilburg (met die mooie terrassen), Breda (met die mooie terrassen), Nijmegen (met die mooie terrassen), Arnhem (met die mooie terrassen), Apeldoorn (met die mooie terrassen), Haarlem (met die mooie terrassen), Amersfoort (met die mooie terrassen), Enschede (met die mooie terrassen), Leiden (met die mooie terrassen), Zwolle (met die mooie terrassen), Leeuwarden (met die mooie terrassen), Zaanstad (met die mooie terrassen), Maastricht (met die mooie terrassen), Venlo (ja u weet wel waarmee) en Amsterdam (met die mooie terrassen alsook vuil, zwervers, vuil, drukte, vuil, TikTok-rijen, vuil, prostitutie (we noemen ook positieve dingen), vuil, gnomen, vuil en troep). Denk de fatbike-jeugd en raggende rolkoffers op het trottoir even weg als u stempt in de klikpoll onderaan. Succes en proost.

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Heard about some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever.

If anyone is an "AI vegan" it's me -- I don't use these tools at all, ever, because they are unethical. Telling me that they are delicious is not going to make them ethical.

Also, I will endlessly berate you about your use.

That's veganism, you're welcome.

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Onder scholieren zijn THC-vapes in opmars: vapes met daarin vaak synthetische cannabinoïden. Kinderen worden onwel of vallen flauw, soms moeten ze naar het ziekenhuis of zelfs naar een afkickkliniek. Ook een Amsterdamse moeder vond haar veertienjarige zoon bewusteloos op zijn kamer.

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Exclusive: A trove of previously redacted documents was filed as part of the tech giant’s anti-trust battle with the state of California. Amazon denies it engages in price-fixing

Hundreds of previously redacted records reveal how Amazon has put pressure on independent sellers using its platform into raising their prices on the sites of competitors such as Walmart and Target, so that Amazon can appear to have lower prices, California authorities allege.

The global conglomerate became concerned even if a competitor was selling an item for as little as a penny less, according to one segment of the newly unredacted evidence.

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