Notable developments in infrastructure, security and cloud. Headlines and summaries are written in our own words; follow the link for the original source.
NESO has awarded Palantir roughly £21M through a direct deal to keep using its proprietary platform. The stopgap maintains the incumbent until a planned future competition, raising concerns for providers about data portability, integration and vendor lock-in risks.
Cloudflare’s Automatic Key Exchange checks TLS 1.3-capable origins to determine supported key-agreement methods and initiates connections using the strongest available option, favoring post-quantum when supported. Applied to 45 billion daily connections; admins should ensure origin TLS 1.3 and post-quantum support to benefit from stronger, more efficient handshakes.
Microsoft warned that changes to memory management in Windows Server 2025 can cause some applications to terminate unexpectedly. Server admins and MSPs should test critical workloads, monitor event logs and follow Microsoft's published fixes or mitigation guidance.
Huawei unveiled a new chip that does not use US-sourced components. For MSPs and sysadmins this may affect supply chains, compatibility, driver support and security reviews; verify hardware/software compatibility and vendor guidance.
A public Nitter instance, XCancel, was taken down after receiving a legal notice from X Corp but has been brought back following legal advice, and maintainers say more instances will follow. For sysadmins this underlines the legal exposure of hosting public proxies for X content and the need to prepare logging, rate-limiting and takedown procedures before deploying.
A timekeeping body is considering stopping leap-second insertions to avoid an unprecedented negative adjustment and instead allowing UTC to diverge from Earth rotation by up to one hour. For sysadmins and MSPs this can affect time sync, log correlation, authentication and other time-dependent systems — review NTP/chrony configuration, vendor guidance and any leap-smear options.
After eight years in transit, BepiColombo detached from the Mercury Transfer Module and initiated the terminal phase toward Mercury. The separation exercises long-duration flight software, autonomous sequencing and timing-critical commands; lessons on remote operation and fault tolerance are relevant for admins managing distributed infrastructure.
The AMD Threadripper Halo is presented as a desktop-class AI workstation delivering 576 GB HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth. Aimed at researchers and carrying a premium price, the platform has implications for on-prem AI deployments—affecting procurement, power/cooling and maintenance planning for MSPs and sysadmins.
Microsoft will start rejecting mail from legacy Exchange Server installations that don't meet the October 2025 compatibility baseline for delivery to cloud mailboxes. Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 must be brought into compliance or their outgoing messages may be bounced. MSPs and sysadmins should review Microsoft's update and configuration guidance and prepare affected servers.
PostgreSQL 19 introduces a standardized graph-query syntax developed via multi-vendor collaboration, making it easier to handle graph data with SQL. Indexing and performance tuning are not fully mature yet, so query speed and scalability on large datasets may require extra attention.
The pnpm installer has been rebuilt in Rust and is offered as a backwards-compatible binary for existing projects. Expect faster, lower-memory installs in monorepos and CI; verify platform coverage, installation paths and signing/distribution steps before rolling out.
Cloud print-and-post platform Docmail has been unavailable for a third day with no recovery ETA. The service supports over 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS bodies and medical clinics, and the provider has not announced a restoration schedule. MSPs should prepare manual mailing fallbacks and notify affected clients.
Wayve and Uber have begun offering paid autonomous trips in London using 15 Mustangs, with a follow-up plan that may use a Nissan LEAF without a safety driver. Such fleets create operational and security demands for MSPs and sysadmins, including low-latency networking, edge/cloud compute, secure OTA updates, telemetry handling and regulatory compliance.
The Register reported a Windows 10 update-themed event held at London's O2 that treated updates as a spectacle. For server admins and MSPs this is a reminder to validate updates, schedule maintenance windows and communicate proactively to reduce customer impact.
Microsoft is addressing an issue on Windows that delays or prevents some users from launching the Microsoft Teams desktop app. For MSPs and sysadmins this can disrupt user access and raise support load; temporary options include using the web or mobile clients, restarting the app, and checking service health.
Microsoft is addressing an Exchange Online outage that is causing delays and 'Server busy' errors for mail exchanged with outside domains. MSPs and admins should inform customers, monitor Service Health, and have fallback routing or communication plans ready.
A recent Windows 11 update caused some desktops to switch unexpectedly to a dark theme or altered color settings. MSPs and sysadmins should identify affected devices and plan rollbacks or use Group Policy/Intune/SCCM to restore settings and control the update centrally.
Microsoft says the known issue that restores mouse preferences after installing KB5120998 (August 2026 preview) occurs only on non-English Windows 11 builds. Admins and MSPs should test the preview before wide deployment or consider delaying to avoid user configuration loss.
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