@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
@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/…
@tiago@social.skewed.deThe idea of writing extremely customized software using LLMs is a curious one.
It may seem like a liberating prospect at first, but it's actually another instance of cloud computing: i.e. your software stack is *written* by the cloud.
https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFDA launches a pilot using AI and cloud computing to give the agency a "direct data feed" to real-time clinical data, aiming to shorten drug approval timelines (Frank Konkel/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelli
@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
@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…
@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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: cloud provider Vultr is seeking to raise $1B to expand its AI computing capacity, after raising $333M at a $3.5B valuation in 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amd-backed-vultr-seeks-1-billion-ai-cloud-push
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialComputing’s new deep dive finds that the explosive build‑out of AI infrastructure is driving a sharp rise in datacentre energy, water and waste use. It investigates opaque ESG reporting, creative accounting on renewable energy, and growing reliance on gas generation. AI is being built at any cost, and the environmental trade‑offs are increasingly hard to ignore.
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialOkay I know everyone hates this article but there's a nugget of truth in it. One of the possible futures we can gun for is this.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
Make things. Make _personal scale_ things. The tools help bridge the truly high barriers we've managed to put in in the tech industry.
This will have a lot of problems! We don't have collective knowledge for this yet / again. The people with Sysadmin Mindset have been burned out or subsumed into the Cloud Computing machine.
But there's a chance here to take the web better places. We should take it.
(If you're worried about everything turning into paying to rent access to a digital landlord, I have bad news about where we've been since 2012.)
@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…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social @johnleonard@mastodon.socialFrom Google's newly invented carbon metric to two key AI clouds that publish no environmental data at all, the Computing annual sustainability audit goes under the AI microscope. Penny Horwood explains how – and why.
https://www.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt’s impressive how eager open source projects are to fall in line to use dehumanizing technologies and to please fascists.
If this continues unabated I give personal computing maybe another 15 years and then they’ll make devices that aren’t dumb terminals to some cloud service illegal.
@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.
@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…
@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…
@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?…
@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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@johnleonard@mastodon.socialCloud development platform Vercel has confirmed it suffered a security breach, after a threat actor claimed to be selling access to allegedly stolen company data.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/secu
@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
@cdarwin@c.imOpenAI’s newly appointed revenue chief, Denise Dresser,
sent a memo to staffers on Sunday, touting the company’s alliance with Amazon as a key growth driver for its enterprise business,
🔸while noting the constraints of its long-standing tie-up with Microsoft.
Dresser’s memo lands less than two months after Amazon announced plans to invest up to
⭐️$50 billion in OpenAI as part of a strategic partnership.
Microsoft, Amazon’s top cloud computing rival, has investe…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA UK tribunal rules Microsoft must face a lawsuit alleging it overcharged UK businesses to run Windows Server on cloud services from Amazon, Google, and Alibaba (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
@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
@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…
@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.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.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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialByteDance launches its Seedance 2.0 video model to enterprise clients in 100 countries, excluding the US amid legal disputes, after a February launch in China (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/bytedance-laun…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: cloud-computing startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise ~$1B at an $18B valuation, up from $7.5B when it raised money earlier in 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-14/jane-street-in-talk…
@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…
