For years, “AI infrastructure” has been an oddly specific form of chaos: expensive GPUs duct-taped to general-purpose clusters, YAML sprinkled with hopeful comments, and a shadowy layer of vendor-specific magic that only one engineer understands (and they’re currently “between opportunities”). On November 11, 2025, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta, the Cloud Native…
Loch Capsule Countertop Dishwasher: The Tiny, Fast Dishwasher That Also “Sanitizes” Gadgets (and What That Really Means)
Countertop dishwashers have always lived in a weird corner of consumer tech: part appliance, part lifestyle accessory, and part “please don’t look under my sink.” They tend to be either too bulky for small counters or too small to feel worth the hassle. Every few years a new model shows up promising to fix the…
Chromebooks, Classrooms, and Customer Loyalty: What Google’s Internal ‘Onboarding Kids’ Deck Reveals About the Business of Education Tech
When schools buy laptops, they’re not just buying hardware. They’re buying an operating system, an identity provider, a default browser, an app ecosystem, a classroom management stack, and—if the vendor’s internal slide decks are to be believed—a long-term relationship that can outlive the student’s graduation gown by several decades. That’s the uncomfortable subtext behind a…
Amazon EC2 G7e Goes GA: What AWS’s New Blackwell-Powered GPU Instances Mean for GenAI Inference, Spatial Computing, and “Please Don’t Page Me at 3AM” Operations
AWS just did that thing it’s very good at: quietly turning a previously painful GPU problem into a menu of instance sizes you can click in the console. On January 20, 2026, Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 G7e instances, a new GPU instance family accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO…
Everything in Voice AI Just Changed: What Enterprise Builders Can Do Next (and What Could Go Wrong)
Voice AI has always had a small PR problem: it’s been marketed like the future, but behaved like a bad conference call. You say something. A server far away thinks about it. A synthetic voice replies after a pause long enough for you to question your life choices. If you interrupt, it keeps talking like…
Chewy Promo Codes in January 2026: What the Deals Say About the Tech Behind Modern Pet Commerce
Some people collect sneakers. Some people collect vintage synths. Americans, increasingly, collect subscription renewals for the beings in their homes who shed on everything and judge them silently from the couch. Which is why a humble promo code list—like WIRED’s recent “Chewy Promo Codes: $30 Off January 2026”—is more than bargain-hunting fuel. It’s a window…
The US Has Officially Left the WHO—and the Unpaid Bill Is the Least “Tech” Part of This Story
On January 22, 2026, the United States formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO). The headlines have focused on the money—because of course they have. According to reporting by Ars Technica, the US exit comes with hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid obligations—specifically a reported $278 million in 2024–2025 assessed dues,…
Railway’s $100M Series B Is a Bet That “AI-Native” Cloud Won’t Look Like AWS (and That Developers Are Done Waiting)
On January 22, 2026, Railway announced a $100 million Series B that reads like a polite but unmistakable challenge to the hyperscalers: the era of “click here, wait two minutes, paste IAM policy, then wait again” is running out of cultural runway. The news was first reported by Michael Nuñez at VentureBeat, which is the…
Microsoft, IDC MarketScape, and the New Job Title Nobody Asked For: Unified AI Governance
On January 14, 2026, Microsoft published a post on the Microsoft Security Blog announcing it had been named a Leader in the 2025–2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Unified AI Governance Platforms (Vendor Assessment #US53514825, December 2025). The post is credited to Microsoft Security (the blog’s byline rather than an individual author) and positions Microsoft’s approach…
HPE Alletra 5000/6000 and NimbleOS hit by remote privilege escalation (HPESBST04995 rev.1): what to patch, why it matters, and how to reduce blast radius
HPE has published a security bulletin, HPESBST04995 rev.1, warning of a remote privilege elevation issue affecting HPE Alletra 6000, HPE Alletra 5000, and HPE Nimble Storage arrays running NimbleOS. The short version: if your storage fleet is on the wrong side of a particular NimbleOS build number, you should treat this like a “drop what…