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NIST Boulder Atomic Clock Failure Disrupts Critical Time Infrastructure

NIST Boulder Atomic Clock Failure Disrupts Critical Time Infrastructure

The atomic ensemble time scale at NIST's Boulder laboratory has failed, jeopardizing foundational timekeeping services essential for global technology systems. This unprecedented outage threatens financial networks, telecommunications, and cybersecurity protocols reliant on nanosecond precision.

Rusty Klock Inspection Kit v2.0: A Leap Forward in Time Protocol Diagnostics for Distributed Infrastructure

The Rusty Klock Inspection Kit (rkik) reaches version 2.0.0, expanding from a basic NTP inspector into a full-featured CLI tool and library supporting Network Time Security (NTS) and Precision Time Protocol (PTP). New capabilities include encrypted NTS sessions, PTP querying on Linux, persistent configurations, and a Docker test environment, empowering SREs and network engineers with deeper insights into clock synchronization. This update underscores the growing importance of secure, precise time management in cloud and edge computing environments.