edge computing

Cloudflare's Gen 13 platform pairs AMD EPYC 9965 chips with FL2, a Rust rewrite of its NGINX-based proxy, doubling edge throughput while trading L3 cache for cores.

NIST is overhauling its IoT cybersecurity guidance for federal agencies while the EU Cyber Resilience Act's first enforcement deadline in September 2026 forces manufacturers to build vulnerability reporting infrastructure from scratch.

The open-source runtime executes Node.js v24 applications inside a WASIX sandbox without Docker, passing 99 percent of the Node.js test suite while trading 5 to 30 percent of native performance for process-level isolation.

Google DeepMind shipped four Gemma 4 model variants on April 2 under the OSI-approved Apache 2.0 license, replacing the restrictive Gemma Terms of Use and removing all barriers to commercial deployment, modification, and redistribution.

Cloudflare's new isolate-based runtime starts AI agent sandboxes in milliseconds with megabytes of memory, replacing containers and pairing with Code Mode to cut LLM token usage by 81 percent.

NVIDIA launched IGX Thor at GTC 2026, bringing safety-certified edge AI to factories, hospitals, and rail networks as AT&T, Cisco, and a dozen hardware partners build commercial deployments.

WebAssembly's server-side moment arrives as WASI 0.3 finalizes native async support and Akamai deploys Fermyon's Spin across 4,000 edge locations.