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A startup ran a test in orbit of software meant to let satellites split up computing jobs. Faster data from space is the goal, but the work is early.
Read more: Startup tests software that lets satellites share computing workAn unreleased Anthropic AI model found a severe Linux flaw and built a working attack. Some fixes are still arriving, so businesses running Linux servers should check.
Read more: An AI found a serious Linux flaw and built a working attackThe largest US grid operator plans a special March auction for new power capacity for data centers, if federal regulators approve new rules on who pays.
Read more: Biggest US power grid plans a March auction for data center electricityA new New York bill would make the biggest AI developers hire licensed outside auditors and report risks fast. It could change the AI tools used in the state.
Read more: New York lawmakers want outside experts to audit the biggest AI companiesRunware wants to build AI data centers in a factory like cars, in hours instead of years. The plan is big, but it is still unproven.
Read more: Startup plans to build AI data centers on an assembly lineCursor, a coding tool, says malware reached up to 5,000 of its users. Details are thin, so anyone who uses it should check their accounts and devices.
Read more: Cursor coding tool says up to 5,000 users hit by malwareCloudflare now lets companies put its firewall, bot blocking and caching in front of private servers without opening them to the Internet.
Read more: Cloudflare now protects private company systems without exposing themDoorDash made its AI grocery reorder 8 times faster by doing the heavy thinking ahead of time. Shopping list views doubled and orders rose about 34%.
Read more: DoorDash makes its AI grocery reorder 8 times fasterA Bishop Fox researcher used ordinary chat requests to pull an internal Anthropic program and pieces of a Google Cloud token out of Claude's sandbox.
Read more: Researcher gets Claude chatbot to reveal Anthropic's internal software and a keyAmazon's cloud arm is on track for $184 billion in yearly revenue, and its CEO says AI demand could push it toward $1 trillion within ten years.
Read more: Amazon's cloud arm is growing so fast it could soon outshadow its shopAmazon now lets AI assistants start the business workflows you already built on AWS, with approvals and rules kept intact at every step.
Read more: Amazon lets AI assistants run your business workflows step by stepNew data centers cost billions to build, but once running they employ only a few dozen people, which matters if your town is weighing one.
Read more: Data centers cost billions but employ only a few dozen peopleOpenAI says it uses several layers of monitoring to catch its most advanced AI models when they stray, so staff can step in early.
Read more: OpenAI explains how it watches its own AI for risky behaviorMark Cuban says many towns are signing weak data center contracts. If one is proposed near you, the fine print can decide your noise, water and power costs.
Read more: Mark Cuban says towns are signing bad data center dealsA US cyber agency says attackers are pairing a Linux flaw with two PHP flaws to take full control of web servers. Unpatched sites are at risk.
Read more: Hackers are chaining two flaws to take over Linux web serversAO3 is offline for two to four weeks after a security incident, and account details may be exposed, so reused passwords are worth changing now.
Read more: Popular fan-fiction site AO3 goes dark for up to four weeksAWS Marketplace now lets software sellers with several legal entities post a listing once, so local branches can send buyers their own offers.
Read more: Amazon's software store lets companies list once, sell from many branchesNvidia is reportedly in talks to back the debt behind a huge data center for Anthropic, a sign of how risky and costly AI infrastructure has become.
Read more: Nvidia may back a young cloud firm's debt for Anthropic's data centerAmazon's cloud arm beat Wall Street's forecasts as AI demand pushes growth to its highest rate since late 2021, which matters to anyone who rents cloud services.
Read more: Amazon's cloud business grew 39%, its fastest pace in nearly five yearsA new Gallup poll finds about 30% of voters call AI data centers extremely important to their midterm vote, yet the economy and healthcare still rank far higher.
Read more: Many voters care about AI data centers, but other issues rank higherA Sierra Club analysis says gas plants built for data centers could raise US power plant CO2 42 percent by 2030, erasing 15 years of cuts.
Read more: Data center boom could undo 15 years of US pollution cutsSwitching to Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 changes who answers your lookups, not who can read them. Encrypted DNS in your router can cover the whole home.
Read more: Changing your DNS provider doesn't hide the sites you visitA Raspberry Pi can take over a DVR, a password manager and a price tracker, three jobs many people pay for. How-To Geek says each is a weekend project.
Read more: 3 ways a Raspberry Pi can cut your bills this weekend, starting with free DVR (Oct 30 - Nov 1)Cloudflare saw 18.2 million network attacks in Q3 2026, but far fewer giant ones. Cheap, short strikes are now the main way sites get knocked offline.
Read more: Online attacks are getting smaller and more frequent, not bigger
