Investigators told Ars Technica how thieves on highways used GPS spoofing to steal shipments headed for data centers. The losses in data center equipment add up to $100 million.
Gary Smith, who has led optical networking firm Ciena since May 2001 and steered it through the telecom crash, told The Wall Street Journal that today's AI build-out is a different kind of cycle.
At the 2026 Open Compute Project summit, Meta detailed the networking hardware behind its Muse Wonder and Muse Spark models and its gigawatt-scale Prometheus cluster. Highlights include IcePack and IceCube, its first liquid-cooled network rack, with 102.4T switch blades in Broadcom Tomahawk 6C and NVIDIA Spectrum-6 versions.
Eight years ago, chipmaker Marvell Technology chose to jump ahead to more advanced process nodes. SiliconANGLE reports that the bet has kept the company on a rising path as demand for AI chips grows.
Modders have lifted a restriction that stops some GeForce RTX cards from using their full AI compute power, doubling theoretical throughput on an RTX 4090. Real-world gains are smaller, and the tweak carries risks.
NextDC, Australia's largest datacentre operator, suffered a setback in its plan to double its M3 site in west Melbourne. Powering the expansion meant replacing timber poles on suburban streets with taller concrete ones for higher-voltage lines, which residents opposed.