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2026.10.017 min read Azure lost ExpressRoute and VPN gateways in 18 regions for nearly six hours A gateway management change collided with routine OS servicing on September 30, and Azure's private connectivity paths failed together across 18 regions for 5 hours 45 minutes. technologyinfrastructuretechnology-leadership 2026.09.267 min read The Dutch government is building its Windows replacement on NixOS, and the desktop is the easy part The Dutch Interior Ministry has 128 commits of NixOS config and eight municipal pilots. A June audit found its own IT providers have no continuity plan. technologyinfrastructuretechnology-leadership 2026.09.176 min read AWS says data hosted only in Bahrain is gone, six months after the strikes AWS told customers on September 15 it cannot restore data hosted exclusively in its Bahrain region or one UAE zone. Three zones inside one small country were never built to survive drones. technologyinfrastructuretechnology-leadership 2026.09.1510 min read Why AI companies keep asking for regulation Leading AI labs want rules, but the details matter: compliance costs, restrictions on Chinese rivals, liability protection and a cleaner path to public markets. technologyai-engineeringtechnology-leadership 2026.09.106 min read Tailwind is joining Shopify eight months after losing 80% of its revenue Shopify is buying Tailwind Labs eight months after AI tools cut its revenue by about 80%. The framework stays MIT, Tailwind Plus closes to new customers, and the docs funnel that funded it… programmingtechnology-leadershipsoftware-development 2026.09.087 min read Broadcom pulled VDDK, and the exits from VMware closed with it Broadcom yanked the VDDK downloads on August 25 with no notice, and most of the tools people use to leave VMware depend on it. I don't think that was an accident. technologyinfrastructuretechnology-leadership 2026.09.076 min read AI incident tools can remove the practice engineers need for difficult outages AI responders may shorten routine outages while leaving engineers less prepared for unusual failures. The risk is familiar from older automation, though evidence specific to AI-assisted… ai-engineeringinfrastructuretechnology-leadership 2026.09.067 min read 22,000 third-level .name domains face deletion, regardless of their expiry dates Verisign plans to delete third-level .name domains in February 2027. Paid registrations won't prevent removal, and the end of email forwarding could leave old accounts exposed to takeover. technologyinfrastructuretechnology-leadership 2026.09.018 min read John Ternus Takes Over Apple, With Developer Software Still Catching Up John Ternus becomes Apple CEO on September 1 after Tim Cook’s 15-year run. His hardware record offers reasons for optimism, but developer tools, on-device AI and services will test his… technologyinfrastructuretechnology-leadership
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