Infrastructure

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Nvidia Invests $4 Billion in Photonics Companies Lumentum and Coherent for Data Center Optics

Nvidia announces $2 billion investments each in Lumentum Holdings and Coherent Corp., securing multi-year capacity rights for advanced laser components critical to data center interconnects as AI workloads demand higher bandwidth between GPU clusters.

Mar 1

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Data Center Power Demand Surges 40% Year-over-Year as AI Workloads Strain Grid Capacity

The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that data center electricity consumption grew 40% year-over-year in Q4 2025, driven almost entirely by AI training and inference workloads — with electricity prices forecast to rise 6% through 2026 as demand outpaces new generation capacity.

Feb 28

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Humand Raises $66 Million to Build an AI Operating System for Deskless Workers

Buenos Aires-based Humand secures $66 million in Series A funding co-led by Kaszek and Goodwater Capital to scale its mobile-first platform that uses AI to coordinate operations for the 2.7 billion workers worldwide who don't sit at desks.

Feb 26

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Dutch Telecom Odido Confirms Data Breach Affecting 6.2 Million Customers

Odido, the Netherlands' third-largest mobile carrier, confirms a data breach exposing personal information of 6.2 million customers — including names, addresses, dates of birth, and phone numbers — following unauthorized access to a customer management system.

Feb 25

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Linux Foundation Member Summit 2026 Convenes in Napa Valley with Cloud Native Focus

The Linux Foundation's annual Member Summit opens in Napa, California on February 24-25, bringing together maintainers, corporate sponsors, and project leads to chart the course for open-source infrastructure, AI governance, and supply chain security in 2026.

Feb 23

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Red Hat Launches Enterprise-Supported Podman Desktop as Docker Alternative

Red Hat releases an enterprise-supported build of Podman Desktop with full commercial backing, targeting compliance-sensitive organizations in financial services, healthcare, and government seeking a vendor-backed Docker Desktop alternative.

Feb 22

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HCP Terraform Legacy Free Plan Reaches End of Life March 31: What Teams Need to Know

HashiCorp sunsets the HCP Terraform legacy free plan on March 31, 2026, forcing automatic migration to an enhanced free tier — prompting renewed community discussion about switching to OpenTofu or self-hosted alternatives.

Feb 22

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AWS and Google Cloud Jointly Launch Multicloud Private Networking with Open Specification

In a first for hyperscale cloud providers, AWS and Google Cloud jointly engineer a private dedicated networking product with an open interoperability specification across five initial region pairs with MACsec encryption.

Feb 21

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Adds Native CIEM Across AWS, Azure, and GCP

Microsoft Defender for Cloud integrates native Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management across all three major clouds, introducing activity-based inactive identity detection with a 90-day lookback window.

Feb 21

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Linux Kernel 6.19 Released as Torvalds Confirms Next Version Will Be Linux 7.0

Linux 6.19 marks the end of the 6.x series with a 300% TCP performance boost and AMD GPU improvements, as Linus Torvalds confirms the next release will be version 7.0 — the first major version bump since 2015.

Feb 20

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PostgreSQL Schedules Emergency Release After February Update Triggers Encoding and Replication Bugs

PostgreSQL announces an emergency out-of-cycle release for February 26 after the regular February 12 update introduced a regression breaking substring() on non-ASCII text and causing standby replication halts.

Feb 20

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CVE-2026-25499: Path Traversal Flaw in Terraform Provider for Proxmox Allows Privilege Escalation

CVE-2026-25499, published February 4, 2026, is a CVSS 7.5 path traversal vulnerability in the Terraform and OpenTofu provider for Proxmox VE affecting all versions before 0.93.1, where insecure sudoers documentation could enable an attacker to read or modify arbitrary files on the Proxmox host.

Feb 19