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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.
Apple's Settings > General > iPhone Storage screen reveals lesser-known space hogs beyond obvious apps and media, such as forgotten downloads, cached data, and message attachments. Users are advised to review this breakdown to identify items they may have overlooked when clearing space.
A hobbyist developer detailed a personal project to implement the classic 3-2-1 backup strategy—three copies of data, on two different media, with one copy offsite—entirely using free, self-managed tools. The effort was sparked by frustration with paying for cloud storage like Google One just to access files they already own, and involved syncing a Minisforum mini-PC, a Lenovo laptop, external hard drives, and mobile devices.
A recent guide walks Mac users through diagnosing slowdowns using tools already built into macOS, starting with checking startup disk storage under System Settings and clearing space if needed. It then explains how to use Activity Monitor's CPU and Memory tabs, including the Memory Pressure graph, to identify apps causing high resource use.
Apple's Mac mini lineup includes both the newer M6 chip and the older M5 Pro, but the M5 Pro model is priced higher because it targets a different performance tier. The M5 Pro offers more CPU and GPU cores, higher RAM ceilings up to 64GB, and storage options up to 8TB, compared to the M6's maximum 12-core CPU, 32GB RAM, and 2TB storage.
Amazon's Ring is rolling out a new encryption scheme called Throw Away the Key Encryption (TAKE) starting this September. Under the system, video is protected by rotating encryption keys, and Ring can only briefly access its stored copy of the key to power AI features like face detection or video summaries before permanently deleting that copy, cutting off further access to the footage.
After the April 2025 blackout across Spain and Portugal shut down its production lines and spoiled tonnes of meat, Spanish processor Fribin lost hundreds of thousands of euros in a single incident. The company has since bought two five-megawatt-hour battery storage modules, together worth about €1.5m, partly funded by EU Next Generation grants, to keep operations running during future outages.
A storage server lost power at 00:32 UTC on 17 August 2026 and stayed offline until an engineer manually restarted it at 08:22 UTC, causing an 8-hour-15-minute outage across S3-compatible storage, the container registry, and serverless and static-site deployments. The company's status page correctly flagged the incident within three minutes, but no engineer noticed it until nearly eight hours later when someone checked the page for an unrelated reason. No customer data was lost or corrupted, though failed deployments during the window require manual re-triggering.
PicoMQ is a new messaging system that delivers durable, HTTP-accessible streams while storing data on object storage rather than dedicated disks or brokers. It lets developers create a separate stream for each use case instead of consolidating records into shared topics, with each stream independently addressable and able to scale from idle to high throughput.
A blogger built a customer analytics drilldown dashboard using only a 40MB pre-aggregated Parquet 'data cube' stored in R2, an 18KB browser-based Hyparquet reader, and HTTP range requests, avoiding any database or query engine. The demo rolled up NYC's 34-million-row 311 service request dataset into a compact cube that supports fast filtering by reading only small slices of the file at a time.
Falling costs have spurred a surge in grid-scale battery storage proposals across the US, but aging grid infrastructure and equipment shortages are causing massive backlogs. Roughly 750 gigawatts of storage capacity are now waiting for interconnection approval, with median wait times rising from about 1.5 years in 2015 to 5 years in 2025. Utilities like Con Edison and PG&E report project queues swelling by hundreds of percent, citing shortages of transformers, breakers and skilled labor.