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Google has quietly crossed a milestone that's been a long time coming — half of all traffic reaching its services now travels over IPv6. After decades of warnings that the internet was running out of addresses, hitting fifty percent is less a triumph than a reminder of how slowly infrastructure actually shifts beneath our feet.
On a very different timescale, researchers are adding fresh weight to something many of us already feel in our bones — the human brain simply wasn't built to process the volume of distressing information that modern media delivers daily. The science suggests our stress systems treat headlines the same way they'd treat a physical threat, and there's no off switch.
And rounding out today's bulletin, a twenty nineteen piece on CORS — the browser security mechanism governing how web pages talk to outside servers — is making the rounds again on Hacker News, and for good reason. Developers still routinely misunderstand it, often cargo-culting fixes without grasping what the policy actually protects and what it doesn't. Some lessons, it seems, need repeating.
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