Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Friday 30 October 2026
13 stories from 4 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Anthropic just removed one of Claude’s biggest usage limits — but not for everyone
The New Stack
Claude Code users on Anthropic’s $200 plan will no longer face a rolling five-hour usage cap , provided their accounts are verified and they have weekly usage left. Anthropic announced the change Friday as it renamed its two top consumer…
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Busy GPUs can hide slow AI inference on Kubernetes
The New Stack
A Kubernetes cluster can be healthy while the AI service running on it disappoints users. A model might return its first token quickly but take too long to finish an answer. It might respond promptly and still give the wrong answer. And a…
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What worries Entire co-founder Thomas Dohmke about the future of tech?
The New Stack
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is taking on his old company. His startup, Entire, launched a GitHub alternative this week , replacing traditional pull requests with Trails, a review system that uses AI agents to evaluate code changes…
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4 real? Tracking exploitation and patching of eMudhra’s weak keys
Cloudflare Blog
On October 19, 2026, we learned about eMudhra’s eight shockingly weak keys: where eMudhra was trusted to pick a 115-digit number for their virtual combination lock protecting the Internet, they picked the number 4. Not even four digits…
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Kubernetes just formed a workload conformance group. Here’s why it matters for AI teams.
The New Stack
Welcome to the final edition of Road to KubeCon , where we track the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem each week on The New Stack as we head into KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, November 9-12 in Salt Lake City, Utah. This week we explore…
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Innovate on your own business terms: Google Cloud spend caps now generally available
Google Cloud Blog
Today, we’re announcing that spend caps on Google Cloud Budgets are generally available. With this release, we’re delivering ways to protect your workloads from runaway costs without risking resource deletion. More importantly, we’re…
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When the Kubernetes API went silent: A three-layer networking mystery
Google Cloud Blog
Every support engineer has a case that stays with them. The one that comes up at team lunches. The one where, even after it's resolved, you find yourself staring at a packet capture at midnight just to make sure you really understand what…
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GPT-6.1 Terra vs. GPT-6 Astra: One sacrifices accuracy for lower cost and higher speed at high effort
The New Stack
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, marketing it as a cheap, fast model for high-volume everyday work, priced at a tenth of its GPT-6 Astra flagship. As the mid-priced model in its GPT-6 family , OpenAI lists Terra at $1 per…
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Cloudflare services for private origins is now generally available
Cloudflare Blog
Today, Cloudflare services for private origins is generally available. Point a proxied DNS record at a private IP, and Cloudflare reaches the origin over your existing Cloudflare One connection . Your origin stays private, while web…
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ARTEX and Friends: Enter Agentic Offensive Frameworks
Google Cloud Blog
Written by: Aurora Blum, David Mainor, Rohit Nambiar, Omar ElAhdan, Matthew McWhirt, Will Silverstone, Bhavesh Dhake, Chris Busse Introduction Recent intrusions in which threat actors have been observed weaponizing agentic frameworks to…
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What five P99 CONF talks reveal about database trade-offs
The New Stack
P99 CONF is a virtual conference on high-performance, low-latency applications. Its 2026 event ran October 21–22 . Here, we cover five of its 60-plus sessions. The recordings are available on demand at p99conf.io after registration…
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New Gemini courses for financial services and legal teams
Google Cloud Blog
Today Google Skills is sharing new, industry-specific video learning bundles to get you into Gemini and using agents. One bundle is designed for financial services and one is built specifically for those in the legal profession . You can…
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Stripe on Stripe: What we learned moving $1B in vendor payments to Global Payouts
Stripe Engineering
In early 2026, we began moving our vendor payments to Global Payouts, Stripe’s product for paying recipients in 160+ countries. New-market setup fell from six weeks to one, with a 99.9% payout success rate. Here’s what we learned.