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AMD acquired MEXT, a predictive memory engine that offloads cold DRAM pages to flash storage and uses an AI model to prefetch data before it's needed. AMD says internal tests, such as with Synopsys PrimeTime, show 95% of full-DRAM performance using only 50% of physical DRAM, and the company plans to scale deployment from 145 internal servers to 2,000 next year, alongside a rollout partnership with HPE.
A New York City homeowner found one of their in-wall Cat6 Ethernet runs had degraded to 100 Mbps despite having 2.5 Gbps-capable switches and access points. Rather than fish a new cable through difficult walls or fall back to a weak wireless mesh setup, they installed a thin 'invisible' fiber optic cable—originally designed for apartment and rental retrofits—using a MikroTik switch, media converters, and bidirectional SC SFP+ transceivers to restore high-speed connectivity between floors.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise issued patches addressing 72 vulnerabilities in ArubaOS, the software running Aruba Networking's mobility conductors, access points, controllers and gateways. Eight of the flaws, spanning AOS-8 and AOS-10, carry maximum severity ratings and allow unauthenticated remote attackers to bypass authentication or execute code without user interaction.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise plans to launch its Spaceborne Computer-4, a fanless compute module roughly the size of a graphics card, to the Moon's south pole aboard an Astrolab FLIP rover in late 2026. The mission, tied to NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program and a Voyager Technologies Griffin-1 lander, will run HPCG and other supercomputing benchmarks alongside AI tasks like LLM retrieval-augmented generation, vision inference, and LiDAR processing, in partnership with NASA and Deloitte.
Astrolab's FLIP lunar rover will carry an HPE Spaceborne-4 edge computer designed to run custom large language models directly on the moon's surface. The system will process camera and lidar data onboard to aid navigation and distill insights, reducing how much raw data must be transmitted to Earth.
The IEEE 2030 Technology Megatrends Report predicts that by 2028, genetic engineering and gene therapy will become common treatments for various diseases, driven by rapid AI development. Experts from around the world identified AI as a central factor influencing multiple technological shifts across health, energy, space, and infrastructure sectors. The report emphasizes AI's accelerating progress and its role as a foundational infrastructure, while also highlighting potential challenges such as infrastructure needs and workforce adaptation.
Tottenham Hotspur has replaced its stadium's VMware virtualization software with HPE's Morpheus VM Essentials, cutting licensing fees by more than 85 percent. The club is nearing completion of a broader overhaul of its stadium data center, now running on HPE ProLiant Gen12 servers and Alletra storage, managed through HPE GreenLake and OpsRamp.
HPE has released patches for CVE-2026-73749, a critical buffer overflow in ArubaOS-CX that lets unauthenticated attackers send malformed packets to a daemon to gain elevated code execution. The bulletin also lists 23 other vulnerabilities, several rated high severity, affecting management and web modules across multiple AOS-CX release branches. One vulnerable version has already reached end of maintenance but still received a fix due to the severity of the flaw.
The LTO Consortium, backed by HPE, IBM, and Quantum, reports that shipped capacity of LTO-compatible tape media rose 57% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2026. The surge follows a 9% dip in 2025 and comes after 2024's record 176.5 exabytes shipped, with LTO-9 tapes driving much of the latest growth. Quantum's CEO attributes the rebound to enterprises needing durable, cost-effective long-term storage as AI-driven data volumes explode.