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1. Chips & hardware · Cloud & data centers · Artificial intelligence

   Google's Suncatcher satellite returns first orbital AI reply

   Google reports a "Hello World" milestone for its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite. It is the first AI response from a data center class TPU in orbit.

   Full story at blog.google ↗
2. IT industry & companies · Artificial intelligence · Cloud & data centers

   Tech stocks slump, raising fears of an AI bubble

   The Nasdaq 100 was down 2.6 percent at the time of writing on Friday. Amazon lost about two percent despite continued momentum in its cloud unit.

   Full story at Futurism ↗
3. Cybersecurity · Networking · Cloud & data centers

   Cloudflare publishes its DDoS report for Q3 2026

   The report by Cloudforce One analyzes Cloudflare network data for July to September. Short, low-bandwidth attacks under 10 minutes and 1 Gbps rose by 208%.

   Full story at blog.cloudflare.com ↗
4. Networking · Cloud & data centers · Cybersecurity

   Cloudflare makes private origin services generally available

   Cloudflare services for private origins are now generally available. A proxied DNS record can point at a private IP, and WAF, caching, bot management and Workers work as they do for public origins.

   Full story at blog.cloudflare.com ↗
5. Cloud & data centers · Data & databases · Cybersecurity

   Aurora PostgreSQL adds post-quantum TLS key exchange

   Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now offers post-quantum TLS key exchange for data in transit. In versions 18 and higher, the ssl_groups parameter can be modified.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
6. Artificial intelligence · New AI models · Cybersecurity · Cloud & data centers

   OpenAI's Daybreak Red arrives on AWS GovCloud

   Daybreak Red from OpenAI is available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-East). It is built for authorized vulnerability research, exploit reproduction and mitigation development.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
7. Cybersecurity · Networking · Cloud & data centers · Chips & hardware

   Check Point introduces the Maestro MHO 200

   Check Point introduced the Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator MHO 200 with 400GbE ports and four times the capacity. It is meant to secure AI traffic in the data center without slowing it down.

   Full story at blog.checkpoint.com ↗
8. Cloud & data centers · Data & databases

   RDS for Oracle and SQL Server autoscale extra volumes

   Amazon RDS for Oracle and SQL Server now support storage autoscaling on additional storage volumes. Up to three additional volumes raise capacity up to 256 TiB.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗

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