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Cursor Launches Origin to Challenge GitHub in Code Hosting
📅 - Cursor has launched Origin, a Git-based code hosting platform built directly into its AI development environment, extending the company beyond coding assistance into repository management and review. The move comes as GitHub faces reliability scrutiny, rising AI-generated code volumes, and enterprise questions over whether developer infrastructure should remain concentrated in one dominant platform for software teams today.
Origin arrives at an awkward moment for GitHub. A recent outage disrupted pull requests, APIs, enterprise authentication, and Copilot for nearly six hours, with error rates approaching 20% across several services and roughly 50% for archive and raw-file downloads. A [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - SAP Adds BSI-Approved Encryption for German Cloud Systems - SAP is encrypting optical links between its Walldorf and St. Leon-Rot data centers in Germany using BSI-approved Layer 1 technology from Adva Network Security. The deployment targets sovereign cloud workloads, protecting all traffic in transit while adding quantum-secure mechanisms for government, critical infrastructure, and regulated customers that require strict national control over sensitive data inside German borders.
The immediate issue is not raw bandwidth. It is control.
For cloud providers selling into government and heavily regulated sectors, keeping data inside national boundaries only solves part of the sovereignty problem. Data still has to move between facilities for [...]
📅 - Quantum Computing Begins to Look Like Data Center Engineering - IBM has linked two modular cryogenic systems into a single ultra-cold environment, an infrastructure milestone aimed at scaling future fault-tolerant quantum computers. The significance is less about quantum software than the physical systems required to support it: refrigeration, wiring density, chip interconnects, control electronics, and a modular architecture designed to accommodate far larger quantum machines over time.
The two connected cryogenic modules are more than eight feet tall and eight feet wide. IBM says the combined system reached 4 Kelvin in less than five days before cooling below 15 millikelvin. That is the operating territory required by superconducting quantum [...]
📅 - CBRE Reports Record AI Colocation Signings Across Europe - European data center operators signed 420 MW of AI-focused colocation capacity in the first half of 2026, up from 89 MW a year earlier, according to CBRE. Most of that demand is moving beyond the traditional FLAPD hubs, with neoclouds favoring Nordic markets where renewable power is cheaper, more abundant, and easier to secure at scale commercially.
The fourfold increase is significant not simply because AI companies want more racks. It suggests data center operators and their financiers are becoming more comfortable committing large blocks of capacity to a class of customer that, only two years ago, many landlords treated cautiously. CBRE says providers are using mechanisms including [...]
📅 - Cerebras Launches CS-4 Rack System for Speedier AI Inference - Cerebras Systems has launched the CS-4, a rack-scale AI inference system built around three Wafer Scale Engine 3 Turbo processors and a new modular platform called Nexus. The company claims up to 30 times faster inference than GPU-based systems, twice the performance of CS-3, and deployment times measured in hours rather than days for large AI workloads.
The system is aimed squarely at one of the more stubborn problems in production AI infrastructure: inference speed once models become large enough that moving data between processors starts to matter almost as much as raw compute. Cerebras says CS-4 delivers 750 petaflops of AI compute, 129.6 petabytes per second of memory bandwidth, and [...]
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