@Techmeme@techhub.socialBaidu joins Alibaba in raising prices for its AI computing power-related services by ~5% to 30% and its parallel file storage system by 30% from April 18 (South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3347030/alibaba-and-bai…
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialAmazon Web Services suffered two outages in December related to errors involved with its own AI tools – but has put the blame on employees, not technology.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/aws-blames-user-error-not-ai
@boris@cosocial.caThe third path here -- beyond personal computers or renting them from the cloud -- is walkable mixed density co-op computing.
@paul-rony.bsky.social covers this in "From groups to individuals, micro-computing and us", @causalislands.com Berlin.
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imAs companies pour billions into sprawling industrial campuses for cloud and AI computing,
some data center operators are experimenting with four-legged bots
—about the size of large dogs
—that can patrol fences, inspect equipment, and flag any issues before they turn into costly outages.
These robots, known as “quadrupeds,”
are being used to patrol the complexes,
which can sometimes reach the size of multiple football fields.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Nextcloud Hub 26 vorgestellt. Der Weg zur echten Datensouveränität:
[…] End‑to‑end‑Verschlüsselung lässt sich direkt im Browser einrichten. Dateien können klassifiziert werden, damit sensible Inhalte automatisch geschützt bleiben. […]»
Spannend wie @… sich entwickelt aber weiss wer welche E2EE Technik sie einsetzen, sprich wo kann ich es nachsehen?…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlibaba raises prices for its T-Head AI computing chips, including the Zhenwu 810E, by 5% to 34%, and its Cloud Parallel File Storage by 30%, after demand soars (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRender, which is positioning itself as an alternative to Salesforce-owned Heroku, raised $100M at a $1.5B valuation, says 4.5M developers use its tools (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/render-raises-100-million-at-1point5-billio…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialThe Edge Computing Cloud is opening to early adopters at #SXSW. Turn idle home internet and hardware - Mac Minis, old PCs, even NAS boxes - into a decentralized edge cloud. Install our open-source agent, leave it running, and earn cash for helping deliver content and run AI inference 2x faster than centralized clouds. We handle security, routing, and node trust. Join before March 31st for 2x payou…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgProud PhD supervisor moment: @… have nice write up to Elke Schlager's brilliant work, (now a preprint in @…) on how we can use #MachineLearning methods to emulate #Greenland ice sheet melt via European Weather Cloud computing
https://europeanweather.cloud/use-cases/machine-learning-emulation-accelerate-climate-science
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon, Google, and Microsoft reported a collective $1.1T backlog of cloud computing revenue in their latest quarterly earnings, including Microsoft's $625B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/big-techs-usd1-1-trillion-cloud-computing-backl…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Send It Away, or Put It On Display? How librarians and research computing staff can collaborate across language barriers"
#RDM
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaNathaniel Moore will speak on 'Running Containers with Open Source Akash Network, a Blockchain-based Distributed Computing Platform' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
@arXiv_csOS_bot@mastoxiv.pageHALO: A Fine-Grained Resource Sharing Quantum Operating System
John Zhuoyang Ye, Jiyuan Wang, Yifan Qiao, Jens Palsberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07191 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07191 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.07191
arXiv:2602.07191v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As quantum computing enters the cloud era, thousands of users must share access to a small number of quantum processors. Users need to wait minutes to days to start their jobs, which only takes a few seconds for execution. Current quantum cloud platforms employ a fair-share scheduler, as there is no way to multiplex a quantum computer among multiple programs at the same time, leaving many qubits idle and significantly under-utilizing the hardware. This imbalance between high user demand and scarce quantum resources has become a key barrier to scalable and cost-effective quantum computing.
We present HALO, the first quantum operating system design that supports fine-grained resource-sharing. HALO introduces two complementary mechanisms. First, a hardware-aware qubit-sharing algorithm that places shared helper qubits on regions of the quantum computer that minimize routing overhead and avoid cross-talk noise between different users' processes. Second, a shot-adaptive scheduler that allocates execution windows according to each job's sampling requirements, improving throughput and reducing latency. Together, these mechanisms transform the way quantum hardware is scheduled and achieve more fine-grained parallelism.
We evaluate HALO on the IBM Torino quantum computer on helper qubit intense benchmarks. Compared to state-of-the-art systems such as HyperQ, HALO improves overall hardware utilization by up to 2.44x, increasing throughput by 4.44x, and maintains fidelity loss within 33%, demonstrating the practicality of resource-sharing in quantum computing.
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@frankel@mastodon.top#Kubernetes 1.35 Released with In-Place Pod Resize and AI-Optimized Scheduling
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/kubernetes-1-35/
@roland@devdilettante.comfor those who can't be bothered with the bogus age limit thing, check it out at: https://skyview.social/?url=https:%2F/bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/post/3mbcvjmqdtk…
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialWhoever thought it would be a good idea to rely on a handful of companies from a single country to maintain the UK’s digital infrastructure?
Well, the government for one.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2026/why-cloud-first-has-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOxide Computer, which lets companies build their own cloud, raised $200M led by USIT, taking its total funding to nearly $390M since its 2019 founding (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/02…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgThe preprint of the paper is here btw: #MachineLearning methods to emulate #Greenland ice sheet melt via European Weather Cloud computing
https://europeanweather.cloud/use-cases/machine-learning-emulation-accelerate-climate-science
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»Souveränität in der Cloud:
Digitale Souveränität bedeutet für Unternehmen und Behörden Verfügungsgewalt über Daten, Kontrolle über Infrastruktur und Vorhersehbarkeit gegenüber rechtlichen Eingriffen.«
Kein neues Thema und mMn noch den wenigsten bewusst. Klar die Umstellung kann aufwändiger so wie teuerer sein und doch hatten sich die meisten aus Bequemlichkeit such nicht darum gekümmert.
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@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump signed into law this month a measure that 👉 prohibits anyone based in China and "other adversarial countries" from accessing the Pentagon’s cloud computing systems.
The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law,
was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based engineers to service the
Defense Department’s computer systems for nearly a decade
— a practice that left s…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
UKI: unified kernel images for booting Linux from UEFI.
https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/unified_kernel_image/
saved 2026-02-28
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI am mixed on this one...
On one hand I can see the risk of having Chinese people in China work on (which means "have access to", and often "have privileged access to") US DoD systems.
However, I don't see the other half of the issue - What do do about people who are not in China (perhaps in the US, even US citizens) who are, or have been induced, to use their access to promote the interests of a foreign power?
Given that under Cheato the US is dumbi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the US FTC accelerated a probe into whether Microsoft illegally monopolized the enterprise computing market with its cloud software and AI offerings (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-13/ftc-ratch…
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialMoving away from hyperscalers seems to be a growing trend.
The reason? One respondent didn’t beat about the bush: “The risk of Trump”.
https://www.computing.co.uk/research/2026/…
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialTwo of Amazon’s three AWS Middle East cloud availability zones remain disrupted after a fire at a datacentre in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday.
https://www.com…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Kalifornisches #Gesetz zwingt Betriebssysteme zu Altersabfragen:
Ab 2027 müssen #Betriebssystem'e in #Kalifornien das Geburtsdatum neuer Nutzer abfragen. Das sieht der Digital Age Assurance A…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCloud computing provider Nebius agrees to buy Tavily, which helps AI agents search for up-to-date information for tasks like coding, a source says for $275M (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: ByteDance plans to spend about $14B on Nvidia's AI chips in 2026, an increase of about 18% from 2025 (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3338191/bytedance-pour-u…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft Q2 gaming revenue fell 9% YoY, including a 32% drop in Xbox hardware revenue and a 5% decline in Xbox content and services, which includes Game Pass (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869493/microsoft-q2-…
