GitHub reports that nearly all repositories on its platform now have copies split between its own data centers and Microsoft Azure, with the first repository replica landing in Azure's Central US region in August 2025. The company says most repositories currently keep two of their five replicas in Azure, which now serves roughly half of all Git traffic, while a small set of the busiest repositories remain constrained by a 25ms network round trip.
github.blog
· 2026-10-21
President Trump posted on Truth Social that data center operators should strike financial deals with communities, including paying residents a 'dividend,' to boost public support for the facilities. He said this approach has turned previously unpopular projects into popular ones in areas he has observed.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-21
CISA, the FBI, the US Secret Service, and law enforcement agencies in Germany and the UK issued a joint advisory stating the SafePay ransomware gang has compromised more than 600 critical infrastructure organizations across North America, South America, Europe and Australia since August 2024. The agencies said SafePay actors gain access through credential theft, brute-force attacks, and VPN exploitation, particularly targeting Mullvad VPN IP addresses, and often delete shadow copies and reset network-attached storage to hinder recovery.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-21
AI researcher Chris Cammarata published claims suggesting large language models may be significantly easier to understand, monitor, and control than many researchers currently believe. In an interview with MIT Technology Review's Will Douglas Heaven, Cammarata discussed what he believes the field is misunderstanding and defended his findings against skeptics who remain unconvinced. Separately, the growth of AI agents like Meta's Muse, downloaded 5 million times in its first month, is prompting websites to block such bots as they clash with human-oriented site design.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-10-20
Amazon announced plans to invest more than $17 billion in Germany, covering AI infrastructure, high-speed satellite internet, logistics projects, and new Prime Video content. The investment marks one of the company's largest commitments to a single European market.
wsj.com
· 2026-10-20
Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter, that Anthropic and AI infrastructure provider Nscale are close to announcing another $45 billion compute agreement, just over a month after their first deal of the same size. Sources caution that talks remain ongoing and terms could still change. TechCrunch says it has contacted both companies for comment.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-19
Norwegian infrastructure firm Bulk is seeking a majority partner to fund and build 'Project Leif Erikson,' a transatlantic cable stretching from southern Norway to Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland, then overland through Quebec to Montreal. Co-founder Peder Nærbø describes it as part of a 'sovereign cable system' for Canada, and the plan was presented to investors at a Canadian government-organized summit in September. Canada's Industry Minister Melanie Joly has met with Nærbø this year, though her department would not confirm details of the project.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-19
Reuters reports that credit strategists and investment firms are charging higher premiums to finance AI infrastructure projects that are further from completion, citing increased risk. Carlyle estimates private credit could fund around $1 trillion of AI infrastructure buildout, but warned that aggressive lending practices could create concentration risks similar to those previously seen in software lending.
news.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-16
A robotics project has secured $9 million in funding to develop a small robot designed to survey sewage infrastructure. The device is intended to inspect pipes and detect problems in underground sewer systems without extensive excavation.
wsj.com
· 2026-10-15
Dell Technologies stock fell 11% on Wednesday, pulling down Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Oracle, Super Micro and NetApp amid worries that enterprise AI spending won't match the scale of the ongoing data center buildout. Barclays analysts cut ratings on Dell, HPE and NetApp from buy to hold, saying they see no 'meaningful AI inflection' in enterprise demand and attributing recent revenue gains largely to a global memory shortage rather than AI adoption.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-14
Ukrainian drones struck three data centers operated by Russian tech giant Yandex over four days, knocking facilities offline and disrupting services relied on by banks, retailers and consumers. One targeted site, in Sasovo, held tens of thousands of servers along with two supercomputers used to train Yandex's AI models.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-14
QA Wolf has developed infrastructure that spins up disposable Windows virtual machines to run automated desktop app tests, launched from Linux hosts, addressing a gap where no standard tooling existed to parallelize thousands of Windows UI test runs per month. The system handles booting fresh VMs, maintaining active logged-in sessions required for Windows UI Automation, and discarding machines after each run to avoid state carrying over between tests.
qawolf.com
· 2026-10-14
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