Every app you use runs on two very different kinds of database work. When you tap “buy” on an order, a database has to record that one purchase, instantly, correctly, without losing it. When a company later asks “how many orders did we get last month, broken down by city,” a database has to scan … Read more
A German fusion energy startup just raised more money in one round than almost any climate-tech company in Europe ever has. On July 7, 2026, Munich-based Proxima Fusion announced it had closed €411 million ($469 million) in new funding, backed in part by Google — a company far better known for search engines and cloud … Read more
Microsoft laid off roughly 4,800 employees on July 6, 2026, and confirmed that Xbox — its gaming division — absorbed the largest single share of the cuts. About 1,600 Xbox roles were eliminated immediately, with additional reductions expected to bring the division’s total to around 3,200 jobs, roughly 20% of its global workforce, by the … Read more
Imagine your company needs a firewall. Twenty years ago, that meant ordering a physical box, waiting for it to ship, racking it in a data center, and cabling it in by hand. Today, an engineer can get the same firewall running in minutes, without ever touching hardware. They pick it from a cloud marketplace, click … Read more
Once a team moves past running a handful of containers on a single machine, a new set of problems shows up that has nothing to do with the application code itself: which server should run which container, what happens when a container crashes, how new versions get rolled out without downtime, and how a container … Read more
On July 1, 2026, Sysdig’s Threat Research Team published findings on an extortion campaign it named JADEPUFFER — describing it as an “agentic ransomware” operation in which, according to Sysdig’s analysis, an autonomous AI agent carried out the entire attack chain, from initial compromise to database encryption, with minimal human direction. BleepingComputer covered the findings on July … Read more
Scroll through security news for even a week and you’ll see the same three letters again and again: RCE. It’s attached to some of the most severe vulnerabilities ever disclosed — critical flaws in web servers, VPN appliances, AI tools, and enterprise software that get patched immediately because leaving them open is treated as an … Read more
On July 3, 2026, a Linux kernel vulnerability nicknamed “Bad Epoll” became public: CVE-2026-46242, a use-after-free bug in the kernel’s eventpoll subsystem — the same epoll mechanism that powers the event loops behind Redis, Nginx, and Node.js, as explained in our companion guide, What Is epoll?. The bug is a local privilege escalation vulnerability, rated CVSS 3.1 7.8 (High), meaning it … Read more
Every high-performance server you’ve ever used — Redis, Nginx, Node.js, HAProxy — has to answer the same basic question millions of times a second: which of the thousands of open network connections it’s holding actually has new data waiting to be read? Loop through every connection and ask “anything new?” and you’ll burn CPU cycles … Read more
On July 2, 2026, Google Cloud announced that Datastream, its change-data-capture and replication service, now integrates directly with Dataplex Universal Catalog, automating the metadata sync between the two. In practical terms: as data flows through Datastream pipelines, Dataplex Universal Catalog registers and tracks that data automatically, instead of requiring a separate manual cataloging step. This … Read more