Investment firm Brookfield has purchased two data centers in Santa Clara that its portfolio company Centersquare already occupies. The $97 million deal represents a strategic consolidation of assets following Brookfield’s acquisition of Cyxtera from bankruptcy last year. Both facilities have changed
Microsoft is turning Windows 11 into an “agentic” operating system with AI agents integrated into the taskbar. The new features will launch in preview alongside voice commands and developer APIs for Copilot+ PCs.
Cloudflare is experiencing widespread outages affecting multiple customers including social media platform X. Users worldwide are seeing error 500 messages and challenges.cloudflare.com blocks. The infrastructure provider confirmed it’s investigating the ongoing issue.
Valve is taking another shot at the living room PC market with a new Steam Machine launching in early 2026. The compact PC features AMD hardware and will compete with current-gen consoles. A redesigned Steam Controller will bundle with the system.
Deepin OS features a custom desktop environment that makes it visually competitive with Windows 11 and macOS. The distro requires 64GB of storage space, which is unusually high for Linux. Despite some concerns about Chinese influence, it offers extensive customization without extra tools.
The Qt framework is moving away from direct hardware random number generation after performance testing revealed shocking results. RDRAND took 79.5 seconds to fill 1GB compared to just 1.5 seconds for getrandom. This change shifts responsibility for broken hardware RNG to the operating system.
Adata is bringing 128GB DDR5 modules to mainstream desktops using new 4-rank CUDIMM technology. This breakthrough effectively doubles current capacity limits, enabling 256GB systems on dual-DIMM motherboards. The modules are already being validated on MSI’s upcoming Z890 platforms.
Microsoft executives faced brutal backlash on social media this week while the company rolled out security updates and expanded Windows 11 version 23H2 availability. Meanwhile, Valve surprised everyone with new hardware announcements and Xbox Cloud Gaming finally reached India.
Mesa 25.3 has landed with substantial Vulkan driver enhancements across multiple vendors. AMD’s RadeonSI driver now defaults to using the ACO compiler backend for better performance. This represents a major step forward for open-source graphics on Linux.
OpenAI is building the largest data center project in history with Stargate, a $1.4 trillion vision spanning multiple US locations. The project has evolved from a single mega-facility to multiple campuses as the company bets heavily on AI scaling laws requiring unprecedented compute capacity.
