Meta infrastructure chief Santosh Janardhan to step down
Dave Brown, who joined this year after 19 years at Amazon, will replace him.
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OpenAI Builds Pando Git Backend After Codex Agents Overload Monorepo
OpenAI's Pando stores per-branch packfiles as immutable blobs to cut median push latency by 5x for AI agent workloads.
Hermantown approves Google data center project
Hermantown City Council approved the 1.7 million square foot Google data center with a $210 million decommissioning fund after protests.
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Bunny CDN isolates Armenia node after provider reports unauthorized access
Investigators found no access to the node, but Bunny is reissuing TLS certificates in case cached content or keys were exposed.
Cloudflare Radar records 49 Internet disruptions in Q3 2026
Exam shutdowns in Iraq and power failures, including large drops in Honduras, Cuba, and Sevastopol, led the quarter’s outages.
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GitHub puts nearly all repositories in Azure amid agent traffic
Per-reference quorums target the last 0.00001% of repos; tests saw 3–4x write throughput.
Rewinding the exponential: How we keep hardware usage down
Cloudflare details pipeline changes that deferred about 2.5 years of hardware growth.
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The CEO's of Broadcom and Intel Say the Quiet Part Out Loud about AI and ROI
Broadcom and Intel CEOs say AI ROI and financing remain uncertain despite massive infrastructure spending.
Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents
YC startup Agent37 launched cheap gVisor sandboxes for AI agents, averaging $0.37 per sandbox each month.
Bot traffic plunged to near 0 following the strike on its Vladimir data center
Bot traffic tied to a Vladimir data center reportedly fell to nearly zero after a strike.
AI Data Centers Not Paying Their Costs, Will Keep Using NDAs and Seek Tax Breaks
AI data-center companies told three Senate Democrats they are not covering full costs and will keep NDAs and tax breaks.
Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters
AllenAI published a blog on scheduling work across shared GPU clusters.
We are fighting phishing at the wrong layer
A researcher argues phishing defense should hunt shared AiTM servers that leak their origin via cookies.
Why Data Centers Are Such a Big Part of Meta’s AI Approach
Meta's infrastructure chief explains why company-owned data centers and chip choices underpin its AI strategy.
Meta AI Open-Sources Rebalancer: A C++ Assignment Solver That Runs About 40 Million Placement Problems a Day
Meta open-sourced Rebalancer, a C++ assignment solver handling about 40 million placement problems a day.
Metamask discloses security incident affecting its infrastructure
MetaMask disclosed an ongoing infrastructure incident and is exiting affected non-custodial staking validators.
Unidentified Flock Cameras in Florida
St. Lucie County found a dozen unpermitted Flock cameras whose owner it cannot identify.
Introducing Olmo-core 3: Open, scalable training infrastructure for large MoEs
AllenAI introduced Olmo-core 3, open infrastructure for training large mixture-of-experts models.
Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
Anthropic will pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years for cloud infrastructure, Akamai's largest contract.
Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai, pushing its compute spending past $500 billion in under a year
Anthropic signed a seven-year $11.6 billion Akamai cloud deal, lifting reported compute commitments past $517 billion.
Americans’ views on data centers have turned more negative
Pew finds U.S. views of data centers grew sharply more negative during 2026, including on environment and energy costs.
Announcing Petal, a First-of-its-Kind Transoceanic Subsea Cable
Meta announced 'Petal', a first-of-its-kind petabit-capacity subsea cable connecting the US and France, expected in 2029.
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Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
Pirate Face launches a decentralized torrent mirror of Hugging Face open-weight models with SHA-256 verification to survive takedowns.
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GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure
Z.ai's GLM team describes building its own in-house inference infrastructure for serving GLM models, surfaced via a Hacker News link post.