How Uber Builds Fault-Tolerant OpenSearch Clusters Across Zones
Uber shares its recipe for keeping OpenSearch running when an AZ goes down. No magic AI - just topology, shard placement, and regular drilling.
12 h ago 9 10
Weather data sabotage: the climate attack surface enters the radar
MIT Technology Review documents the rise of the risk of sabotage of weather data. An invisible critical infrastructure whose AI models - climate, energy, agricultural - become the downstream.
12 h ago 6 6
Csquare IPOs at $1bn: another pure-play data center comes to market for the AI infra wave
After CoreWeave (March 2025), the compute layer continues to productize at the capital-markets layer. What matters isn't the raise.
yesterday 12 11
Reliance and Kudankulam files surface on the dark web: India's critical-infra breach story enters its supply-chain phase
The 2019 Kudankulam intrusion went through a contractor. Seven years later, the entry point may still be the same.
yesterday 7 8
New York: First State Moratorium on Data Centers, the Grid Revolt Becomes Law
Governor Hochul signs the first US state moratorium on data centers > 50 MW for up to a year. The "data center backlash" moves beyond the municipal level - a new and lasting macro factor for AI infrastructure.
Jul 14, 2026 at 15:45 10 7
Age verification EU: the "wallet" requires Android or iOS - a political rail disguised as a spec
The EU wallet age verification spec de facto requires an official mobile OS. Cryptographic security versus interoperability - but the European identity rail is being set in concrete with a foreign OS duopoly as a dependency.
Jul 14, 2026 at 15:44 9 8
AWS multi-region: the pre-flight discovery call that blocked global failover
InfoQ publishes the analysis of a pre-flight discovery call, present in every customer session for years, revealed as an obstacle to global failover during AWS regional outages. A lesson in systems more than a patch.
Jul 13, 2026 at 17:27 10 7
Data centers in space: hype machine, not computing machine
Several startups announce AI in low Earth orbit. IEEE Spectrum did the math - it's marketing, not infrastructure.
Jul 11, 2026 at 10:44 11 8