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Summary This post is for technical decision makers evaluating where to run production PostgreSQL workloads. It compares two valid operating models—self-managed PostgreSQL and a managed database service—through business and operational outcomes: control, engineering capacity, resi

NVIDIA's second-quarter (Q2) results exceeded expectations, and its revenue guidance for the next financial year beat estimates. But experts say the chipmaker now faces a tougher challenge; rising costs and pressure on profit margins could test how long its AI-fuelled growth can

China's YMTC aims to become the world's largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says — company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix The Entity-Listed chipmaker told investors it plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix as it prepares a $4.9 billion Shanghai IPO. Yangtze Mem

Dogs are amazing. But as many pet parents will tell you, they can be remarkably good at hiding when something is wrong. My Labrador-Great Dane mix, for example, contracted tick fever several times over his 14 long years, and it was always at least a couple of weeks before I suspe

Data Center Backlash Reaches the Ballot Box Data center development is becoming a campaign liability for politicians who once sold it as an economic development win. At least 18 incumbent officeholders lost elections between August 2025 and August 2026 after taking documented act

In the wake of news on Tuesday that two people in Pennsylvania died from measles, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been posting a slew of anti-vaccine rhetoric and misinformation on social media—marking a resurgence of his old ways as a fervent opponent of lifesaving im

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IBM has announced the IBM Storage DS8000 Release 10.2, an update to its flagship enterprise storage platform tailored for IBM Z, IBM LinuxONE, and high-performance, mission-critical environments. The release targets large-scale enterprise demands by focusing on increased drive de

On Nvidia’s earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had “achieved AGI,” one of the tech industry’s ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as “senseless.” Jense

Oxmiq Labs is presenting HBF in AI Compute at Hot Chips 2026, making the case for high-bandwidth flash as a capacity tier for AI inference. This ended up being a major discussion topic, so we wanted to get this one out and its own day to give it a bit more exposure. We did this o

Tracing the deadly path of the Nepal-Tibet flash flood Floods have devastated the Nepal-Tibet border region which have destroyed towns and swept away bridges. Hundreds of people have been reported dead and hundreds more missing. BBC Verify has traced the path of the deadly flash

Trump administration weighs expanding chip tariffs to laptops, consoles, and servers, report claims — January's data center exemptions may be scrapped Commerce is considering a duty-free chip quota pegged to each company's pledged U.S. production. The Trump administration is weig

Hospitality technology firm Prism, the parent company of OYO, closed FY26 on a solid note, with its net profit surging more than fourfold, driven largely by growth in its North American business. The company reported a net profit of ₹994 crore in FY26, marking a 305% jump from ₹2

Artificial Intelligence Deepgram deepens Amazon SageMaker AI observability with Enhanced Metrics Self-hosted speech AI has historically carried an observability trade-off. The service can tell you an endpoint is up and how many requests it served. The questions that actually driv

The Scoop The Senate’s bipartisan college sports bill is getting more air support as it faces resistance from the Congressional Black Caucus. Saving College Sports, a group founded by wealthy businessman and Texas Tech University Board of Regents Chair Cody Campbell, is launching

Dive Brief: - In a significant miss, Build-A-Bear’s second quarter total revenues dropped 7.2% year over year to $115.3 million, according to a Thursday press release. Net retail sales declined 7.1% to $106.5 million and pre-tax income fell 24% to $11.6 million. - The retailer lo

Artificial Intelligence Reduce ASR inference costs by 75% with NVIDIA MPS on Amazon EC2 This post is a collaboration between AWS, NVIDIA and Heidi. Reducing automatic speech recognition (ASR) inference costs on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) becomes critical when GPU u

Dive Brief: - Consumer confidence waned this month amid growing pessimism about prospects for jobs, income and business conditions, The Conference Board said Tuesday in a report on a monthly survey. - A gauge of consumer confidence fell in August for the second consecutive month,

Episode details Available for over a year Today, we discuss Meta’s decision to agree to an $18 billion settlement resolving claims from 29 US states that Facebook and Instagram harmed children. Technology and AI editor Zoe Kleinman joins Adam to discuss the short trial and why Me

Welcome to The Backroom, a window into what goes on behind the scenes as the Retail Dive team covers the stories and trends reshaping retail. You can check out all our podcast episodes (past and present) here and listen on Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio and Spotify. The title of Ro

Hyperscalers and AI-focused infrastructure operators are increasingly developing proprietary AI accelerators and XPUs to keep pace with large language models and complex reasoning workloads. To address the physical, memory, and networking challenges of deploying proprietary silic

Google is adding new ways for users to plan and book trips through AI Mode, its conversational search experience, the company announced on Thursday. Users will now be able to ask AI Mode to track flight prices, book hotels, and see the cost of flights and hotels in points or mile

Hot Chips 2026: Cerebras lays out the future of wafer-scale AI — Nexus system architecture triples rack-scale performance, CS-6 wafer to incorporate stacked DRAM You're gonna need a bigger chip. Cerebras' SRAM-packed wafer-scale engines (WSEs) have carved out a niche in the AI mo

Rather than holding onto tariff refunds to beef up margins and profits, Burlington plans to put the full amount it received in Q2— some $55 million — toward lower prices. “No. 1, it feels like the right thing to do for our customers,” CEO Michael O’Sullivan told analysts Thursday

Glass substrate roadmaps examined — Absolics in final qualification and a first product that keeps slipping Three years on, not much has happened. Glass-core substrates, the replacement for organic chip packaging that Intel promised in September 2023 with more than $1 billion beh

A thousand people voluntarily buried their cotton underpants for two months—not to keep the Underpants Gnomes from stealing them, but as part of a citizen science project to map out soil health in 25 countries around the world. The results of this unique experiment were reported

Dive Brief: - Cookware retailer Sur La Table launched a peer-to-peer resale marketplace Tuesday called Second Servings, according to details emailed to Retail Dive. - The U.S.-only online platform allows users to sell eligible kitchenware, home goods and dining products using pre

Global investment firm Alpha Wave has offloaded nearly 1.92 Cr shares or 7.78% stake in MSME-focused NBFC Aye Finance via bulk deals today, as per BSE data. Alpha Wave India I sold two separate tranches of 95.94 Lakh shares each at weighted average prices of ₹168.19 and ₹168.02 a

Nvidia expects to sell $20 billion of Vera Rubin systems in Q3 as shipments begin — figure would account for 20% of its data center revenue mix, marks fastest ramp in company history 20% of data center revenue. Nvidia expects sales of the Vera Rubin platform to account for around

Harry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and I went through Nvidia’s ecosystem spending spree, OpenAI’s move from number one to number two, and what happens to CFO budgets when your best people are addicted to tokens. #1. Nvidia paid $6B for Poolside’s Model Factory, and the trigger was

The BLUETTI Elite 300 is a 3kWh portable power station intended for home backup, RV travel, camping, remote work, and jobs where dependable AC and DC power may not be nearby. Its 3,014.4Wh LiFePO₄ battery places it above the smaller units mainly used for phones, laptops, and camp

Samsung's new Odyssey G6 monitor hits a ridiculous 1,100Hz refresh rate at 720p — displays each frame for less than a millisecond Ironically, the display with the four-digit refresh rate is actually the bottom of the display stack Samsung is showing off at Gamescom 2026. Remember

Amazon Web Services and NVIDIA have announced a major expansion of their joint infrastructure initiatives, outlining plans to deploy an additional 2 million NVIDIA GPUs across AWS data centers between 2027 and 2028. Building on a 16-year engineering relationship, the expanded col

Teacher guilty of indecent assaults against two pupils - Published A chemistry teacher has been found guilty of indecently assaulting two teenage pupils at an all-boys school in the late 1980s. Sally-Anne Bowen, who taught at Christ's College in Finchley, north London, assaulted

Off the Wire Press Releases WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 27, 2026 — The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apache Iggy and Apache Sourcelume have become Top-Level Projects (TLP). Apache Iggy is a hyper-eff

Investor appetite for the primary market remained strong, with the recently concluded IPOs of Hy-Tech Engineers and Tempsens Instruments drawing an overwhelming response across investor categories. Both issues witnessed robust demand from retail, non-institutional, and institutio

Many talks between data center developers and local governments are wrapped in secrecy behind non-disclosure agreements — residents question the need for NDAs, but developers argue it’s important to avoid ‘running afoul of insider trading rules’ People have the right to know. Res

Kusama: Infinity by Heather Lenz. The 2018 documentary follows the late Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who died this month at the age of 97, from her conservative upbringing in Nagano, through her emergence as one of the mid-20th century’s leading artists, to her startling 1977 de

Josh Mackanic left a 10-year engineering career at Pacific Gas and Electric because he kept thinking about what the utility company doesn’t know about what’s buried underground. “I had a job that got shut down because a pipe was in the excavation [that] we didn’t know about. Fort