The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group experienced a major outage that halted trading across multiple markets. The disruption affected S&P 500 futures, Treasuries, crude oil, and foreign exchange platforms for hours. This incident highlights the fragility of modern financial infrastructure.
BlackSky has successfully launched its third Gen-3 satellite and captured high-quality images within 24 hours. The company plans to build a 12-satellite constellation by 2026 to provide real-time monitoring capabilities to government and commercial customers worldwide.
Pure Data Centres has secured final planning approvals for its €400 million Madrid data center campus, with Phase I starting this month. The company is also developing a massive 500MW facility in Finland, signaling aggressive European expansion focused on AI-ready infrastructure.
Real estate developer Penzance has landed Amazon Web Services as the tenant for a massive new data center in Fairfax County. The 45MW facility represents AWS’s continued expansion across Northern Virginia’s cloud corridor. Construction is underway with completion expected in early 2027.
Public companies must follow strict financial disclosure rules, but human capital reporting remains a mess. Without standardized job taxonomies, comparing workforce data across companies is meaningless. This creates major challenges for investors trying to understand corporate health and strategy.
A subcontractor being terminated brought a loaded gun to Meta’s New Albany data center on November 17. The facility was evacuated after company officials discovered the weapon during the firing process. The employee managed to escape before law enforcement arrived.
TIP Brasil is pouring R$500 million into completely renovating its Campinas data center. The facility will target ISPs, security companies, and government bodies with colocation and cloud services. First phase opens November 2025 with capacity for 2,000 racks.
The LTO Program just announced 40TB LTO-10 tape cartridges coming in early 2026, representing a 33% capacity jump. Meanwhile, Vdura’s Data Platform V12 software promises better performance with SMR hard drives. Both technologies are pushing the boundaries of affordable mass storage.
The vector database hype cycle has crashed into reality, with most companies seeing no returns from their AI investments. Pinecone is reportedly exploring a sale amid fierce competition from open-source alternatives and established databases adding vector capabilities. The future belongs to hybrid a
The Washington Post has confirmed it was affected by the widespread Oracle E-Business Suite hacks linked to ransomware gang Clop. The attacks exploited multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle’s corporate software, stealing sensitive business data and employee records from over 100 companies. Hackers dema
