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With the continuously increasing demand for AI and cloud computing services, data centers are growing...

What: NVIDIA's RTX Spark "superchip" (unveiled around Computex / Build 2026) pairs a 20-core Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU that together address one 128GB unified memory pool over NVLink-C2C — the idea this page explains is unified coherent CPU–GPU memory . Why: On an ordinary discrete GPU, any data the GPU touches must first be copied from CPU system RAM into GPU VRAM across the PCIe bus — …

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com YouTube creators spend 10 to 20 minutes per video picking and editing a thumbnail. Multiply that by daily uploads, and you're burning hours on a task that should be automatic. What if you could drop a video URL into Make.com and get a thumbnail generated without opening Photoshop? This guide walks through a Make.com scenario that takes any video, extracts …

The obsession with centralizing heavy compute on backend servers is a massive bottleneck for both cost and latency. In 2026, as more applications move to the edge, developers are realizing that the user's browser is an incredibly powerful, untapped compute engine. Recently, I challenged myself to build a free live chess game analyzer for my developer utility suite, CipherKit. The traditional arch…

3 AM. Your error rate just jumped 12%. You've spent the last three weeks debugging intermittent failures on your home lab setup, and the coffee's cold. The terminal is still red. The culprit? Your ISP changed something on their end. No port forwarding for residential connections — a policy that's been quietly tightening across Japanese ISPs for the past 18 months. Your "simple" home server projec…

Introduction Building a new app is exciting but shipping an app with poorly secured storage is a headline waiting to happen. When developers build apps that read and write data to the cloud, the question isn't just where data lives, it's who can access it, how that access is controlled, and what happens if someone tries to tamper with critical files. Passwords get leaked, Keys get exposed in code…

Introduction Virtual networks are the foundation of communication in Microsoft Azure. They enable Azure resources to securely communicate with each other, the internet, and on-premises environments. When deploying virtual machines and other cloud resources, proper network segmentation is important for security, performance, and future scalability. In this guide, we'll configure Azure Virtual Netw…

Jefferson Lab has broken ground on the new Jefferson Lab Data Center (JLDC), which will serve as the future Hub site for the Department of Energy's High Performance Data Facility (HPDF). The news release highlights participation by Under Secretary for Science Dario Gil, federal and state leaders, and details how the JLDC will support DOE's advanced computing, AI and data‑intensive science priorit…

Today we are launching BabyChain : a self-hosted canvas studio and durable chain API for image and video model workflows. The short version is this: BabyChain lets you design a ComfyUI-style media chain on a canvas, then call that same chain from product code as POST /api/v1/chains/runs . Every step executes through provider APIs with server-side credentials, every state transition persists to AW…

Hey tech family! 👋 If you’ve noticed your favorite Chrome extensions acting a bit differently lately or if you're a developer currently sweating over a massive codebase rewrite you are experiencing the era of Manifest V3 (MV3) . 🤖 Google has officially pushed the web ecosystem forward by deprecating Manifest V2, making MV3 the absolute standard for how browser extensions behave. But why is this h…

Introduction Before managing cloud resources in Microsoft Azure, it's important to become familiar with the tools used for administration and automation. Azure provides several management interfaces, including the Azure Portal, Azure Cloud Shell, Azure CLI, and Azure PowerShell, allowing administrators to manage resources efficiently from both graphical and command-line environments. In this guid…

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration document.

When our group of 11 was handed the brief for our DMI DevOps Micro-Internship capstone project, the goal was clear: take a real-world microservices application and deploy it end-to-end on AWS using production-grade tooling. No shortcuts, no simulated environments. The kind of setup you'd actually find in a professional engineering team. The application we worked with was Spring PetClinic — a vete…

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You can finally power on a Mac remotely Apple FINALLY lets you turn on your Mac remotely, without having to press the power button. In the media, articles suggest it's a reaction to Mac mini power button complaints. While I agree the M4 mini's power button is in a really dumb spot, that's not why I care about this feature. The two bigger use cases for me have been a pain for years: - Remote Macs …

Reusable rockets and Starlink made Elon Musk’s company dominant in spaceflight. Its record valuation leans on making Starship flights routine and orbital AI data centers real

Explore top technology partners helping enterprises modernize complex systems, reduce legacy debt, and scale digital infrastructure in 2026. Finding the right modernization partner is harder than the technical work itself. This list covers 10 focused, mid-sized technology companies that bring hands-on engineering depth.

By Sailee Shingare | M.S. in Computer Science, Northern Illinois University (NIU) In my last post, I said the cloud is essentially “someone else’s computer.” But how does one physical computer serve thousands of customers at the same time? The answer is virtualization . The Problem Virtualization Solves Imagine you have a powerful server sitting in a data center. It has 64 CPUs and 256GB of RAM. …

Bifrost, the open-source AI gateway, handles thousands of concurrent LLM requests on Kubernetes with near-zero overhead, autoscaling, and centralized governance, everything you need for enterprise-grade production traffic. When AI requests arrive at scale (hundreds or thousands per second), even milliseconds of added latency compound into user-visible slowdowns and unnecessary token costs. A high…