Will AI Destroy America? — An Honest Discussion (Keith Bromley)

 A fundamental problem that has finally boiled to the surface is If artificial intelligence (AI) can destroy the United States of America; along with the follow-up question of How will it destroy the United States?

While nobody knows the future for certain, the possibilities of how the United States could be destroyed fits into five basic categories. Note:  there are lots of subcategories that could be created, but let’s just focus on the five highest levels:

Plasma Jet Engines: The Future of Fuel-Free Aviation?

What If a Jet Engine Could Fly Without Burning Fuel?

Imagine an aircraft engine that doesn't burn kerosene, doesn't need a conventional combustion chamber, and instead uses electricity to turn ordinary air into a high-energy plasma. It sounds like something borrowed from a science-fiction movie, but researchers have been investigating exactly this concept.

Why Wireshark Shows Large Packets on One Computer but Not the Other: Understanding TCP, IP and UDP Offloading

If you have ever used Wireshark to troubleshoot a network issue and wondered why one computer appears to transmit enormous packets while the receiving computer sees normal-sized Ethernet frames, you are not alone. At first glance, it can look like packets are being lost, fragmented, or mysteriously changed somewhere along the network. Before replacing cables, blaming a switch, or spending the afternoon chasing a problem that does not exist, there is an important question to ask: **Are you looking at actual network traffic, or are you seeing the effects of network interface offloading?** Features such as TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO), Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO), Large Send Offload (LSO), and checksum offloading can change what Wireshark displays, depending on where the capture takes place.

Beyond Port Speed: How Cisco’s New Technology Could Shape AI Data Center Networking

Why high-speed connections are only part of the equation—and how packet analysis helps engineers keep AI workloads moving.

AI Is Changing the Network

Artificial intelligence is changing the way data centers are designed, built and operated. Training large AI models requires thousands of accelerators to exchange enormous volumes of data, while inference services must deliver results with predictable latency and high availability.

Welcome Aukua! A New Sponsor Joins the Lovemytool.com Family

If you’ve been following Lovemytool.com, you already know we enjoy exploring the tools, technologies, and troubleshooting tricks that make life a little easier for IT professionals. We also enjoy meeting people who are just as passionate about technology as we are. That’s why I’m pleased to welcome Aukua Systems (https://www.aukua.com/ ) as a new sponsor of the Lovemytool.com blog! It’s great to have another technology company joining us on our continuing adventure through the wonderful world of networking, monitoring, and figuring out why something that worked perfectly yesterday has decided to take the day off today.

Is Mandatory Cellphone Registration A Privacy Warning ?

Imagine waking up one morning, picking up your cellphone and discovering that it no longer connects to the mobile network. You haven't missed a payment, damaged your phone or exceeded your data allowance. The problem is that you haven't completed a government-mandated registration process. Your phone still works perfectly, but your ability to communicate has been restricted.

SingleFile Review: Save Complete Web Pages for Offline Reading and Research

When you find a useful technical article, troubleshooting guide, or networking reference online, there is always a chance it will disappear or change the next time you need it. SingleFile is an open-source browser extension designed to solve this problem by saving an entire web page as a single HTML file. Developed by Gildas Lormeau, the project is available on GitHub and supports popular browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Brave, and Opera. Rather than saving only the text or creating a collection of separate files for images and stylesheets, SingleFile attempts to preserve the original page's appearance and content in one convenient file. For anyone who regularly researches technical problems or maintains a personal library of useful online resources, this is a practical utility worth investigating.

The Wilkes Insurrection by Robbie Bach - a Review

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” These words from Abraham Lincoln came at a time when our Nation was at its most divided point in history - a time when differences ran so deep that we were literally at war with one another. The dangerous divisiveness that exists in America today is fertile grund for a riveting story.

Is TCP Finally Showing Its Age? Homa Takes Aim at the Data Center

TCP has been around for so long that it is easy to forget just how much of the Internet depends on it. Web traffic, cloud applications, file transfers, databases and countless other services have relied on TCP for decades because it does a very good job of delivering data reliably and in the correct order. But there is a problem: the networks TCP was designed for are not necessarily the networks we are building today.

That is particularly true inside modern data centers. AI clusters can contain thousands of GPUs that need to exchange enormous amounts of data while simultaneously handling thousands of much smaller messages. A few milliseconds of additional latency might not sound like much when you are downloading a file, but when an expensive GPU is sitting idle waiting for another piece of information, those milliseconds can become very expensive. Stanford professor emeritus John Ousterhout is arguing that this is where a different transport protocol, called **Homa**, deserves a serious look.

Profitap IOTA 1G M12: Industrial‑Grade Network Probe for Real‑Time Capture & Analysis

If you work in industrial or enterprise networking, the Profitap IOTA 1G M12 is one of those tools that instantly makes your life easier. It’s a multifunctional passive probe that lets you capture, analyze, and troubleshoot traffic without dragging a full toolkit onsite. According to the datasheet, “The IOTA 1G M12 is a multifunctional passive network probe with integrated traffic capture and analysis capabilities.” This means you get a compact device that behaves like a tap, a capture appliance, and an analytics engine all in one. Whether you’re dealing with factory‑floor automation networks or a messy enterprise VLAN jungle, the IOTA gives you visibility without disrupting anything.

Pentagon HR System Breach Exposes Data of Nearly 3 Million People

The U.S. Department of Defense is dealing with a major cybersecurity incident after hackers breached a personnel management system operated by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC). According to reports, unauthorized users gained access to sensitive records belonging to more than 3 million individuals, making this one of the most significant government-related data exposures reported this year.

Using iPerf3 to Test and Validate a Wireless Link

When troubleshooting or optimizing a wireless link, it is easy to look at the signal strength and assume everything is working properly. Signal levels are important, but they don't always tell the whole story. One of the tools I like to use is iPerf, because it lets you put actual traffic across the link and measure what the connection can really deliver. In this example, I was testing a Ubiquiti Wave Pro wireless link while it was being realigned. Rather than relying only on the radio's signal information, I wanted some real-world performance data to show whether the alignment changes were actually making a difference.

Your ChatGPT Chats Aren't Private — They're Turning Up as Evidence in Court

Here's an uncomfortable truth a lot of people haven't clocked yet: your late-night ChatGPT venting sessions, your "hey can you help me word this email to my ex" prompts, your half-formed legal or financial worries — none of that is protected the way a conversation with your lawyer, doctor, or therapist would be. A recent Washington Post investigation, picked up and expanded on by outlets like gHacks and TechSpot, found that AI chatbot conversations have already surfaced as evidence in at least 12 public court cases over the past two years. And that's almost certainly the tip of the iceberg, since most discovery material never becomes public record in the first place.

How to Test a Ubiquiti Product Using iPerf2

When you install or troubleshoot a high-speed wireless link, looking at the radio's signal strength and connection status only tells part of the story. The real question is simple: how much usable network performance can I actually get across the link? One of my favorite ways to answer that question is with iPerf. In this video, I demonstrate a real-world throughput test using iPerf2 across a Ubiquiti Wave Pro radio link. It is a simple test, but it provides much more useful information than simply looking at the radio's reported link speed. By generating actual TCP traffic between two endpoints, iPerf lets you measure the performance of the network path itself.

Closing the Dark Hours Security Gap

Executive Summary

Most organizations actively monitor their security environment during the roughly eight "light hours" of the business day. The remaining sixteen hours — plus weekends and holidays — represent the highest-risk, lowest-visibility window in the entire security posture. Bad actors know this, and they deliberately exploit these "dark hours" for reconnaissance, lateral movement, and data exfiltration precisely because defenders have reduced eyes on the network.

How Network Data and Signal Graphs Prove a Wireless Improvement Worked

When making changes to a wireless network, it is important to measure the results rather than simply assume the change was successful. A grest example is when I was working with a team aligning a pair of point to point Ubiquiti Wave Pro radios. An antenna may look properly positioned after an adjustment, but visual inspection alone cannot tell you whether the wireless link actually improved. Collecting radio and network performance data before, and after the change provides objective evidence and gives you a reliable way to determine whether the adjustment produced the expected result.

EU Just Slapped ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox With Its Toughest Tech Rules — Here's What It Actually Means

If you've been following the EU's crackdown on Big Tech, add three new names to the list: ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox. On August 31, 2026, the European Commission officially designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE), while Reddit and Roblox got tagged as Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) under the Digital Services Act (DSA). This isn't a lawsuit or a fine — it's a regulatory classification, but it's the kind that comes with serious strings attached. All three services crossed the DSA's magic number of 45 million average monthly EU users, which is the trigger threshold for landing in this "top tier" of oversight alongside giants like Google Search, YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's platforms. That brings the EU's VLOP/VLOSE list to 28 services total.

Internet Protocol Journal: IPv6, Internet Geolocation, and the Future of Network Security

If you're interested in networking, Internet protocols, or the technology that keeps the modern Internet running, the latest issue of the Internet Protocol Journal is definitely worth a look. The current edition is Volume 29, Number 2, September 2026, and it focuses on several topics that should be familiar to anyone working with networks today. The issue includes articles on IPv6, Internet geolocation, cybersecurity, and a review of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0.

Server Down? Here's How I Investigated and Fixed it

My Immich server threw a wall of 5xx errors out of nowhere, so I did what any self-hosted homelabber would do: SSH into the box and start digging. First stop was PostgreSQL, since Immich leans on it hard for pretty much everything. Running `docker compose ps` inside `/opt/immich` showed the database container stuck in a crash loop — restarting and dying within seconds, which explained why the rest of the stack looked "healthy" while search and uploads were completely broken.

Tessabyte by Netmantics: A Powerful Network Performance Testing Tool for LAN, Wi-Fi and WAN

Netmantics Tessabyte is worth a look if you need more than a basic internet speed test. Designed for network engineers and IT professionals, Tessabyte provides detailed performance testing for both wired and wireless networks. It measures important metrics such as TCP and UDP throughput, packet loss, jitter and round-trip time, giving you a much better picture of what is actually happening on the network. It was formerly known as TamoSoft Throughput Test before being acquired by Netmantics in 2024.