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Meta Expands its Custom Silicon Strategy from Compute into Networking

Matt Foster — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:43:00 GMT

Meta has detailed MTIA 300, its first in-house accelerator optimized for training ranking and recommendation models.

By Matt Foster

How to Make Testing More Sustainable

Ben Linders — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:53:00 GMT

By using a sustainable testing strategy, you can skip unnecessary tests, ensure failing fast and early, and only run tests affected by code changes. Tracking energy use per test and using static code analysis can help spot inefficiencies and guide optimization efforts.

By Ben Linders

BMC Vulnerabilities Put Thousands of Servers at Risk of Hardware-Level Compromise

Craig Risi — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Security researchers are warning that thousands of enterprise servers could be exposed to compromise through vulnerabilities in their Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) - specialized processors embedded in server motherboards that provide administrators with remote, out-of-band control.

By Craig Risi

OVHcloud Raises Prices as AI Memory Demand Reprices Non-AI Infrastructure

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:43:00 GMT

OVHcloud will raise prices from September, with 2026-edition gaming servers up 87 percent and other recent servers 40 to 59 percent. Founder Octave Klaba says memory cost six times more in June than a year earlier, as RAM suppliers shifted capacity toward high-bandwidth memory for AI. AWS, buying years ahead, has repriced one reserved GPU product.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers