All Your Infrastructure Depends on a Third Party That Doesn’t Care About You
It doesn’t matter much that you work with the best cloud providers if, in the end, everything depends on the hardware underneath.…
Microsoft Open-Sources Comic Chat, the IRC Client That Turned Your Conversations Into a Comic
If you’re over thirty and spent some time on IRC in the late ’90s, Comic Chat will definitely ring a bell. Microsoft…
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Number Range 400 for Sales Calls: an Operator’s Guide (BOE 2026)
In an earlier article we explained what the 400 prefix for commercial calls is and why it affects any user who receives…
Rustisk: what if Asterisk were written in Rust?
Rustisk is an experiment that rewrites Asterisk in Rust: over a million lines of C turned into ~204K of Rust, with its own SIP stack, memory safety and SIP 2-5x faster. Promising, but still far from production. We take a look.
HTTP/2 Bomb (CVE-2026-49975): The Attack That Takes Down a Web Server in Seconds From a Home PC
Our friend Carlos Ros has woken us up warned us via the Sinologic Telegram channel about a vulnerability that has been flying…
Are you a VoIP operator? Spain’s new customer service law requires a 24/7, 365-day support phone line
What the new Spanish Customer Service Law requires from telecommunications operators: human support, resolution within 15 working days, and 24-hour support for service outages.
AI, vibecoding and kids who can’t write by hand: the strange future we’re building
Vibecoding, 10x productivity, a generation that no longer writes without AI, and the uncomfortable question: where will the senior developers of the future come from?
Vosk vs Whisper Local: The Ultimate 2026 Guide to Self-Hosted Speech Recognition (STT)
Some time ago, a client asked me for an enhancement to their system so that their Asterisk could request certain personal data…
Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431): AI finds a 732-byte exploit that gives root on any Linux since 2017
A logic flaw in the Linux kernel’s cryptographic subsystem has been exploitable for nearly a decade without anyone noticing. An AI found…
The 10 best open source password vaults for your company in 2026
The other day, news spread across countless media outlets and social networks about “Bitwarden being hacked“. In reality, there was a lot…
Prefix 400 for commercial calls in Spain: requirements, deadlines and how it affects users and operators (BOE 2026)
We now have the BOE that intends to regulate commercial calls once and for all. It’s the Resolution of 14 April 2026,…
KamailioWorld 2026: what will be presented and what it tells us about the future of VoIP
If you’ve been around the IP telephony and VoIP world for a while, you already know that KamailioWorld is, without exaggeration, the…
What is IPv8: the protocol that solves IPv4 exhaustion without breaking what you have
IPv8 is a network protocol proposal published as an Internet-Draft at the IETF on 15 April 2026 that aims to replace IPv4…
GCVE: what it is and why Europe wants its own alternative to CVE
CVE needs no introduction. You’ve been using it daily for years: when you patch, when you review advisories, when you plug an…