IP addresses are essential as the foundation of the Internet, and around 2011, when IPv4 addresses were allotted to each Regional Internet Registry, people began saying that 'IPv4 addresses have run ...

The big picture: Chinese entrepreneur Lu Heng has built a global IPv4 leasing business from addresses initially allocated to Africa, igniting a legal and political fight over who should control one of ...

Deforestation is a well-known issue affecting biodiversity and carbon storage, but the fragmentation of forests is also a driving factor in the reduction of the world's biodiversity and carbon-storing ...

Windows users may remember occasionally running a system defragmentation back in the day. A system defrag would reorganize information on the drive to improve storage and access. Now, Windows ...

Forest fragmentation—the division of large, intact woodlands into smaller patches—has emerged as a critical issue in 21st-century global land cover change, with far-reaching implications for ecosystem ...

As cofounder of IPXO, an IP management platform, I've spent over a decade in internet infrastructure, watching IPv4 addresses evolve from basic networking tools into valuable financial assets. What ...

The Ethereum ecosystem stands at a pivotal moment. Over the past four years, scaling challenges have been addressed through Layer-2 (L2) solutions, rollups, and technological breakthroughs, expanding ...

A man stops in front of the logo for the Digital Silk Road Development Forum of the World Internet Conference, in Xian, China, April 16, 2024 (China News Service photo by Zhang Yuan via AP). The ...

Over the past year, the crypto industry has attracted users on an exponential scale, with monthly active addresses tripling from 70 million in 2023 to over 220 million in 2024. With over 300 chains ...

Some potential new models for journalism might in fact be old ones. Such trends, of course, do not amount to a clean bill of health for traditional journalism. For starters, the media landscape in the ...

So with IPv6 celebrating its 29th birthday soon but IPv4 still going strong even though fresh IPv4 addresses haven't been available for a decade, I think it's time to learn from our mistakes and see ...