Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Wednesday 21 October 2026
16 stories from 3 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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AI found flaws in the code behind 70% of the web. The fix took two months.
The New Stack
PHP powers roughly 70% of the world’s websites , according to Wiz Research , so a flaw in its core engine affects much more than any single application. On Wednesday, researchers disclosed two critical vulnerabilities discovered with help…
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Amodei says Anthropic’s safety delay may have cost it an AI lead
The New Stack
Anthropic first released Mythos-class models in February 2026 , but CEO Dario Amodei said it delayed broader access until June to build stronger cybersecurity safeguards. Amodei laid out that reasoning Tuesday in a lengthy post on X…
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BigQuery ObjectRef now GA: Build multimodal data platforms for conversational analytics entirely in SQL
Google Cloud Blog
For data science, data engineering, and machine learning teams, unlocking the value of unstructured data, such as images, videos, audio, and documents, has historically meant managing siloed data pipelines for structured and unstructured…
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ZenteiQ scales batch inference 4x with GKE Inference Gateway powered by llm-d
Google Cloud Blog
Today we hear from ZenteiQ , an artificial intelligence startup spun out of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and selected under the IndiaAI Mission to build sovereign scientific foundation models from the ground up. To pre-train…
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Introducing full transaction detection for Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare Blog
Today, we are expanding our web application firewall (WAF) by adding two new capabilities: full transaction detections and response rules. Full transaction detections evaluate each HTTP request alongside its response to identify evidence…
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Responding to core PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619
Google Cloud Blog
Editor's note : This blog was updated on Oct. 23, 2026 at 3:20 p.m. PDT, with additional guidance from Mandiant Consulting on monitoring, patching, and remediation. We have previously updated the blog on Oct. 22, 2026, with revised…
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From feral to fiduciary: making AI agents serve your interests
The New Stack
Tech leaders face a dilemma as they prepare to put AI agents into production. They want the higher productivity and lower costs that AI agents can provide. But they fear unknown risks from AI capabilities that differ from the rest of their…
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Cloudflare deploys protections against php2shell vulnerability
Cloudflare Blog
Update - On October 23, the PHP project published an informational advisory for a related vulnerability, CVE-2026-115560, in PHP's session upload progress feature. It affects fully patched PHP releases, including 8.5.12, and will be fixed…
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AI sped up coding. Sonar instills confidence with verification.
The New Stack
AI coding tools can produce a striking burst of productivity — but the initial surge may not last. A Carnegie Mellon study of public repositories adopting Cursor found a three- to five-fold increase in lines added during the first month…
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How Commerce.com and Cloudflare are getting storefronts ready for AI agents
Cloudflare Blog
AI can write code and pass the bar exam, but it still struggles to buy a pair of shoes online. That’s because websites were built for humans, not agents. Most agents that shop for someone today work from a site’s HTML — they look at the…
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Google Public Sector increases partner investments for frontline adoption
Google Cloud Blog
Partnership is at the core of Google Public Sector’s mission to empower government agencies and education institutions with transformative, mission-aligned solutions. We recognize that we can only scale our impact through a thriving…
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Google Cloud expands model choice and flexibility, bringing OpenAI models to customers
Google Cloud Blog
Google Cloud has always been defined by choice, enterprise-grade governance, and market-leading price-performance. Key to the foundation of openness and choice is giving customers flexibility to run agentic workloads across their choice of…
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Nvidia wants AI factories built in real factories
The New Stack
Nvidia wants new AI capacity to show up at the data center fully built. At its GTC Berlin conference on Wednesday, the company introduced DSX POD, a reference design for shipping containers that partners fill with Vera Rubin racks …
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Hardware-backed security at global scale: Confidential G4 with NVIDIA Blackwell is GA
Google Cloud Blog
Bringing autonomous agents into production means processing sensitive data and valuable intellectual property in real time. Protecting proprietary model weights, user prompts, and generated outputs requires security that safeguards data…
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Google Cloud and NVIDIA expand co-engineering collaboration to scale infrastructure for the agentic era
Google Cloud Blog
As enterprises transition to continuous, multi-step agentic workflows, traditional infrastructure is hitting its limits. But raw performance is only part of the equation. To truly scale agentic AI, enterprises also need the flexibility to…
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Nvidia bets open models can give enterprise AI agents the context they’re missing
The New Stack
Every enterprise company is currently trying to figure out how to have its AI tools work with its data. Meanwhile, every major enterprise vendor that works with those enterprises (think SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce, Workday, etc.) is making…