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Pick the wrong load balancer and you find out during an incident, not during planning. A team running HTTP microservices on Elastic Kubernetes Service does not need the same traffic cop as a fintech company pushing raw TCP order-book data, and neither of them needs what a globally distributed SaaS company needs when a whole…
Kubernetes cost management sits at the center of the broader cloud computing conversation in 2026, and clusters are running hotter on cost than almost anything else in the infrastructure budget. The numbers back that up. Cast AI’s 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report, based on telemetry from tens of thousands of production clusters across AWS,…
Intel’s biggest data center CPU launch of the year barely got a headline. On the same week Intel formally rolled out its Xeon 6+ “Clearwater Forest” processors, built on the long-delayed Intel 18A process, Nvidia used its Computex/GTC Taipei keynote to unveil its first real push into PC processors, and Wall Street decided that was…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company posted its highest monthly revenue in company history on September 11, 2026, and the number tells a bigger story than one good month. TSMC booked NT$514.81 billion in August sales, up 10.1% from July and 53.3% higher than the same month a year earlier, according to company figures cited by industry…
Apple’s App Store business in the European Union just got a new rulebook, and game publishers are the ones who have to read the fine print closest. Starting October 1, 2026, every developer distributing an app or game to EU users faces a restructured fee schedule that replaces the per-install Core Technology Fee with a…
Abacus.AI on September 10, 2026 released a new family of open-weight language models called Smaug, built specifically for enterprise agentic AI workloads. The line has three members — Smaug Agentic, Smaug Flash, and Smaug Mini — and every one of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and hosted inside a company’s own cloud environment.…
I can be impulsive and judgmental at times. But ChatGPT has shown me there’s a better way.
One man’s creation of a chatbot using his dad’s writings and voice recordings raises existential questions for us all.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman supported Anthropic boss Dario Amodei’s call for curbs on breakneck development. Altman even suggested OpenAI may delay its IPO to focus on safety.
Blizzard’s “maintenance mode” MOBA is getting its first new hero in years in the form of Warcraft’s big current antagonist.
