InfraCloudflare Radar logged 49 internet disruptions in a quarter: 18 were exam shutdowns in Iraq, 14 were power outagesAccording to Cloudflare, 49 disruptions were recorded from July to September; 19 were government-directed, 18 of them exam shutdowns in Iraq. Power outages account for 14, natural disasters for five.InfraApple put M6 in the MacBook Pro and iMac: by Apple's own numbers, up to 25% faster AI than M5 on the laptop and up to 5x faster than M4 on the iMacOn 27 October Apple announced a 14-inch MacBook Pro and a new iMac with the M6 chip and presents them as platforms for AI on the machine itself. By Apple's figures, AI workloads on the laptop are up to 25% faster than M5, and the iMac is up to 5x faster than M4. Orders open 28 October, stores from 6 November.InfraAMD will invest $1 billion in Meta's equity offering, and Meta is already testing the first Helios racksAccording to AMD's October 27 announcement, the chip supplier will buy into its own customer. The size of the offering, the price and the terms are not given, and AMD places the broader Helios rollout in the near future, with no date.InfraNVIDIA and Microsoft move agents onto the laptop: RTX Spark for the memory, MXC for the cageRTX Spark laptops are open for preorder from 7 October and on sale from 16 October, and Microsoft Execution Containers for agents are generally available on Windows 11. Neither page gives a price.InfraOn 11 October the DNS root changes its key for only the second time ever, and if you run your own resolver, you check that it trusts the new oneOn 11 October 2026 the DNS root changes its key-signing key (KSK) for only the second time ever; the first was in 2018. The new KSK-2024 replaces KSK-2017. Cloudflare says most website operators need to do nothing, but a resolver that validates DNSSEC must trust the new key before the switch.InfraNVIDIA puts a 64 GB DGX Spark on the desk for $4,999 and links two machines into one with a single cableFrom 23 October at Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI. The GB10 Grace Blackwell chip and 64 GB of unified memory. Sync Cluster Assistant links two boxes with a QSFP cable and pools the memory to 128 GB: per NVIDIA, models of up to 200 billion parameters in the office, no cloud.InfraAWS ships an agent that reads your environment and tells you where you lose money, in dollars and with a ready fixWell-Architected Agent is in public preview: it looks at more than 65 services, gives recommendations on cost, security, performance and resilience and returns them as changes for the console, for infrastructure as code or for the command line. Only for customers with a Support plan, first recommendations within 24 hours. No preview price is given.InfraVera Rubin is now running at CoreWeave, and first customer Cognition reports up to 4.8 times more tokensOn 30 September NVIDIA said CoreWeave had made Vera Rubin NVL72 systems available and that Cognition, the company behind Devin, is the first customer running real work on them. In early tests Cognition saw up to 4.8 times higher total token throughput for SWE-2 compared with GB200 NVL72. The figures are NVIDIA's and the customer's, not independent.
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