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A fire at a third-party data center in Delhi forced an emergency shutdown of Google Cloud's networking equipment on June ninth, and a week later, customers across India are still experiencing elevated latency with no clear resolution in sight. It's a reminder that cloud infrastructure, however vast, still depends on very physical buildings that can burn.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, Rio de Janeiro's much-publicized homegrown large language model is facing serious questions after researchers identified it as what appears to be a merge of an already existing open-source model. The city had positioned it as a local innovation, but the evidence surfacing on GitHub suggests the story was considerably more complicated than the announcement let on.
And Linus Torvalds has released Linux seven point one, continuing the kernel's steady cadence of development. With over two hundred points on Hacker News and nearly eighty comments, the community is paying close attention. The release reflects decades of collaborative engineering and remains one of the most consequential open-source projects in the history of computing.
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