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December 30, 2025

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Volunteer Hackers Plan Internet Outage Response

A string of high-profile outages has exposed weak spots in the world’s digital plumbing, yet no single agency owns a playbook for a worst-case failure. In response, a loose network

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MIT Launches Data Center Power Forum

Seeking answers to a fast-rising strain on electricity systems, the MIT Energy Initiative has launched the Data Center Power Forum in September 2025. The new forum brings together MIT researchers

How to Design Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems

How to Design Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems

You usually do not “build” a fault-tolerant distributed system. You budget for it. You budget timeouts. You budget redundancy. You budget operational complexity. And you budget the uncomfortable truth that

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Tennessee Arrest Sparks First Amendment Fight

Attorneys for Larry Bushart, 61, say a Tennessee sheriff crossed a constitutional line by jailing him for speech they describe as political. The dispute centers on whether local authorities punished

How to Decompose a Monolith Into Microservices

How to Decompose a Monolith Into Microservices

You do not decompose a monolith because microservices are fashionable. You do it because your current system shape makes change expensive. Releases feel risky, lead time keeps creeping up, incidents

What Is GitOps and How It Changes Deployments

What Is GitOps and How It Changes Deployments

If you have shipped software the “traditional DevOps way”, you know the feeling. A CI pipeline runs, a deployment script fires, something changes in production, and suddenly no one is