infrastructure

Uber describes a new ServiceScale controller that lets multiple orchestrators set replica counts on the same Kubernetes workloads, and the stale-cache and multi-writer bugs its year-long rollout exposed.

OPI Abstraction v0.1.0 introduces a vendor-neutral API layer across 26 repositories and a first production deployment blueprint for DPUs and IPUs.

A faulty network configuration update severed inter-zone links in Google Cloud VMware Engine stretched clusters across Sydney, Melbourne, and Frankfurt for nearly 12 hours on July 14.

A Kiewit-led consortium will electrify 119 miles of Central Valley guideway for trains running up to 220 mph, with tracklaying set to begin before year-end.

Uptime's 2026 report marks a fifth straight year of declining outage frequency, but 57% of major outages now cost over $100,000 and power remains the top cause.

A cooling system failure in a single Northern Virginia availability zone triggered a 20-hour AWS outage that physically damaged EC2 and EBS hardware and brought down core trading services at Coinbase.

CVE-2026-35414 lets a comma in an SSH certificate principal slip past authorized_keys access controls, granting root on vulnerable servers. OpenSSH 10.3 ships the fix.

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.

Mira Murati's startup expands its Google Cloud relationship with a non-exclusive multibillion-dollar deal centered on GB300 systems and reinforcement-learning workloads behind its Tinker fine-tuning API.

At its April 21 Super Technology Day in Beijing, CATL introduced a new ultra-fast charging LFP cell that outpaces BYD's recently unveiled Blade Battery 2.0 and reshapes the fast-charging race.

Kubernetes v1.36, releasing April 22, brings accelerated SELinux volume labelling to GA, expands Dynamic Resource Allocation for AI hardware, and permanently removes the insecure gitRepo volume driver.

Brussels awarded a six-year framework contract for sovereign cloud services to Post Telecom, STACKIT, Scaleway, and Proximus, using a new eight-criteria sovereignty framework that allows Google Cloud to participate only through the Proximus-led consortium.