Stories tagged cloud & infrastructure.
OMG! Ubuntu / It's FOSS News / 9to5Linux / Fedora Magazine / Ubuntu Blog / Arch News / Debian News
We are pleased to announce that you can now attach an Ubuntu Pro subscription directly to any base image in AWS Image Builder, allowing you to create enterprise-grade custom images from the get go.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Living in the Netherlands, I spend a fair amount of time on trains, and that is usually where I catch up on what the builder community is writing. Until now, that meant opening a laptop or squinting at a browser tab on my phone. This week I found myself scrolling through trending articles and…
Tom's Hardware
Local opposition to data center buildouts has blocked $68 billion worth of data center projects in the second quarter of 2026, despite investments still rising.
The Hindu — Technology / BusinessLine — Info-tech
Government urges companies to locate future data centres closer to power plants
Utility Dive / pv magazine / Energy-Storage.news
The Public Utility Commission of Texas backed off the standards it proposed in March, eliminating a non-refundable interconnection fee and extending energization milestone deadlines.
OMG! Ubuntu / It's FOSS News / 9to5Linux / Fedora Magazine / Ubuntu Blog / Arch News / Debian News
The free CE build is frozen on 2.x, while all new development goes into a Kubernetes-first, closed-source implementation.
ransomware.live
Flex Ltd. is a global technology manufacturing and supply-chain company headquartered in Austin, Texas. It provides design, engineering, electronics manufacturing, supply-chain management, and infrastructure solutions for customers across the data center, AI, automotive, healthcare, industrial…
Cloudflare Blog
Python Workers allow developers to run Python web frameworks and AI orchestration libraries natively in the Cloudflare Workers runtime. You can seamlessly integrate with Cloudflare's ecosystem including D1, R2, and Workers AI without writing any JavaScript glue code.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
During beta, each Function was reachable only at its Neon invocation URL, something like `https://br-cool-forest-a1b2c3d4-api.compute.c-2.us-east-2.aws.neon.tech`. Now, we support custom domains - you can put it behind `api.example.com` instead.
China: SCMP Tech / TechNode / Pandaily / KrASIA / Sixth Tone
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Moonshot AI has begun supplying its flagship Kimi K3 model to Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the world’s largest cloud services providers, in a major test case for how open-weight AI models can generate higher revenue from third-party platforms. The model…
Light Reading / Fierce Network / Telecoms.com / RCR Wireless / Mobile World Live
A partnership with Cailabs brings Japanese telco NTT's all-photonics network to space, allowing satellites to connect data centers on the ground.
Semafor (filter tech)
‘It’s a really weird moment because we’re having a bunch of tourists come in.’
The Hindu — Technology / BusinessLine — Info-tech
Speaking at the launch of Microsoft's fourth India cloud region in Hyderabad, Krishnan said it was easier and more economical to build data centres near power sources than near coastal cable landing hubs such as Chennai.
Light Reading / Fierce Network / Telecoms.com / RCR Wireless / Mobile World Live
New numbers from analyst firm Dell’Oro reveal that the AI data center boom is main thing driving revenue growth in the telecoms equipment market.
Unit 42
We explore how AWS neutralizes exposed IAM credentials using managed policies, detailing GitHub secret scanning and CloudTrail monitoring strategies. The post From Exposure to Lockdown: How AWS Neutralizes Compromised IAM Credentials through Managed Policies appeared first on Unit 42.
Planet PostgreSQL
On 16 September 2026, the Postgres Meetup for All user group met, organized by Elizabeth Christensen and Ryan Booz. Ryan Booz and Greg Potter delivered a talk. On 18 September 2026, Claire Giordano and Aaron Wislang hosted and published a new podcast episode “25 years of contributing to Postgres…
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb
Ofgem's proposed commitment fees aim to clear grid-clogging data centres, but could the upfront costs deter viable projects and threaten the UK's AI ambitions?
The Hindu — Technology / BusinessLine — Info-tech
Communities across the country are now pushing through moratoriums on new construction, often before developers can apply for permissions
Planet PostgreSQL
Parallel apply workers speed up logical replication of large transactions—but only if you have enough of them.
China: SCMP Tech / TechNode / Pandaily / KrASIA / Sixth Tone
Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology is set to release a new chip targeting complex real-world applications including robotics, an expansion from its current focus on data centres. The product launch, slated for Tuesday, marks Hygon’s move into a new chip category powering machines that…
Planet PostgreSQL
Neither of these parameters means what its name says. max_parallel_workers_per_gather is the most workers the planner is allowed to request for one plan node, and the planner usually requests fewer. max_parallel_workers is documented as a limit for the whole cluster, and it is enforced by compari…
Planet PostgreSQL
I did it! The most important thing I anticipated after leaving DRW was having more time for important work, and one of the top items on my to-do list was the pg_acm update. I already knew about two dozen bugs I needed to fix; several new functions people asked about. In addition, I had several…
Mint — Technology / AI
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has long invested in power infrastructure, crucial for AI's electricity needs. While the company is not a direct AI player, it benefits from the growing demand for electricity to support data centers
ransomware.live
Electrolux Group is a Swedish multinational home-appliance manufacturer, producing refrigerators, washing machines, ovens, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, and other household appliances under several brands worldwide. We were able to access your azure database, and export every piece of data which…
Planet PostgreSQL
max_parallel_maintenance_workers is a ceiling, and most of the time something lower gets there first. It caps the number of parallel workers a single utility command may start. The default is 2, the context is user, and the range is 0 to 1024, with 0 turning parallel maintenance off. Raising it i…
Planet PostgreSQL
I used AI tools to size an OLTP workload on an EC2 system, with DBT-5, a TPC-E-like fair-use implementation. I provided a systematic and mechanical plan for running a series of tests to determine what the appropriate scale factor is on a system. I pre-configured the database with some settings that…
Hackaday / CNX Software / Liliputing
Hat & Hammer has launched the OpenMote, an ESP32-S3-powered programmable universal remote that adopts the familiar, nostalgic form factor of a Nintendo Wiimote. It features WiFi, Bluetooth LE, an infrared (IR) transceiver, a 6-axis IMU, and Home Assistant integration, letting it control smart home…
Planet PostgreSQL
Never set your PostgreSQL locale to zh_CN — that old rule expires with PostgreSQL 19. The Chinese message catalogs went seven years untouched and nearly got dropped from the release. A bone nobody could chew through in seven years, finished in seven days.
DevOps.com / Cloud Native Now
Some of the most difficult production issues do not start with a failed service. The application is running, the database is reachable, requests are completed successfully and the monitoring dashboard is green. Yet users report that something is wrong because the information they depend on has…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the South America (São Paulo) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory…