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Linux Foundation Unveils Akrites for AI-Era Open Source Defense
📅 - The Linux Foundation has launched Akrites, a coordinated security effort backed by AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, JPMorganChase and others to find, fix and disclose vulnerabilities in critical open source software before AI-enabled attackers exploit them. The initiative creates a shared response team and disclosure process for code underpinning banks, hospitals, telecoms, power grids and governments worldwide.
The premise is blunt: open source security has become too important, too exposed and too under-coordinated for the old model to hold.
Akrites arrives with a long list of founding participants, including Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Chainguard, Cisco, Citi, Endor [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Cloud.ru Builds First Owned Data Center in Moscow Region - Cloud.ru has begun building its first owned data center in the Moscow region, aiming for a 2027 launch as Russian enterprise and government demand for cloud and AI capacity keeps rising. Chief Executive Mikhail Lobotsky disclosed the project to Vedomosti, but withheld the site, expected power-usage efficiency and capital spending, leaving some large questions for buyers too.
The reported scale is modest by hyperscale standards, but not trivial in Russia's constrained infrastructure market. Cloud.ru says the facility will have roughly 11 MW of capacity and support as many as 890 racks at up to 20 kW each. Reliability is expected to meet Tier III requirements. Two Vedomosti sources in the [...]
📅 - Nebulock Raises $25M as AI Threat Hunting Faces Enterprise Test - Nebulock has raised $25 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-native security platform, as enterprises face attackers using valid credentials, workplace AI tools and quieter behavioral patterns that conventional alerts often miss. FirstMark led the round, with Bain Capital Ventures, Decibel, Zetta Venture Partners and Step Function also participating, the company said today after stealth.
The financing lands less than a year after Nebulock came out of stealth. That is fast, though not unusual in security when a vendor can attach itself to two things boards already fear: AI misuse and compromised identity. The company says it is already working with Fortune 500 customers, large [...]
📅 - Microsoft Says Datacenters Use Less Water as AI Load Grows - Microsoft says it has cut the water intensity of its datacenters nearly 90% since the early 2000s, a claim arriving as AI infrastructure strains power grids, local politics and resource planning. The company reported 2025 average water usage effectiveness of 0.27 liters per kilowatt-hour, down from 2.3, while capacity demand keeps rising for cloud and AI services.
For buyers of cloud infrastructure, the number is not cosmetic. Water is becoming a site-selection variable, a permitting constraint, a community relations problem and, increasingly, a line item in risk models. Microsoft is trying to show that datacenter growth can be separated from water consumption. Not eliminated. [...]
📅 - Aston Martin Aramco Picks Zscaler for F1 Cybersecurity - Aston Martin Aramco has named Zscaler as its global cybersecurity partner under a multi-year agreement, adding zero-trust security to a Formula One operation built around real-time telemetry, race strategy and UK-based engineering workflows. Zscaler's platform will secure access between the race team, applications and data systems without exposing the underlying network, the companies said today publicly.
Formula One sponsorships are often brand theater. This one has a more operational edge.
A modern F1 team is an engineering business with wheels attached. The car is a sensor platform. The garage is a field office. The factory is a high-performance computing and design environment. Race [...]
📅 - CBRE Warns Data Center Scarcity Will Push Rents Higher - The supply of data centers worldwide is still falling behind AI and hyperscale demand, according to CBRE. With vacancy rates in key North American regions reaching record lows and power shortages postponing new capacity until the following ten years. According to its 2026 research, as operators pursue land and electricity worldwide, increasing rents, changing site plans, and developing markets are becoming more significant.
The headline number is not just inventory growth. It is the mismatch.
Across major regions, operators are adding capacity at historic levels and still not creating much room for buyers. Latin America's leading markets grew inventory by 41.3% year-over-year in Q1 2026. [...]
📅 - OVHcloud Public Cloud Growth Tops 20% as AI Plans Expand - OVHcloud reported faster third-quarter growth as public cloud revenue rose more than 20%, helped by starter products, corporate demand and fresh AI moves. The French cloud provider confirmed its fiscal 2026 targets, including positive levered free cash flow, while highlighting a European Commission sovereign-cloud win and planned Gladia acquisition during a crowded quarter for cloud infrastructure announcements.
For OVHcloud, the quarter is partly about numbers. €289.6 million in revenue, up 6.9% like for like. Nine-month revenue of €844.9 million, up 6.0%. Nothing explosive. But the shape is more interesting than the total.
Public Cloud is doing the work. Revenue in that segment reached [...]