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From SpaceX seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at up to $230,000 to Cribl hiring a remote SRE at up to $240,000, this week’s IT job listings reflect strong demand for infrastructure and reliability talent across aerospace, cloud, and crypto. Engineers focused on systems design, thermal dynamics, and IAM will find a range of opportunities spanning fully remote to on-site roles in Hawthorne, Denver, and Santa Clara. See all ten positions and their requirements here: zpr.io/3czAkdd6jCSB #ITjobs #SRE #InfrastructureEngineering #TechCareers

IBM issued preliminary Q2 revenue and earnings below expectations, sending shares down as much as 25% and erasing roughly $70 billion in market value, as customers redirected budgets toward AI infrastructure before anticipated hardware price increases. Analyst Gil Luria warned the shortfall may signal a broader crowding out of traditional software spending, and shares of Microsoft, Salesforce, and other software companies also declined. Read the full article for early signals of the AI spending squeeze: zpr.io/qu4cgzrEEpYk #IBM #AgenticAI #EnterpriseIT #Software

Enterprise customers pay for their software. Should vendors also be allowed to use that data to train models, enrich databases or build other products they can sell? HubSpot’s swift retreat from proposed data-enrichment terms brings a much broader enterprise technology issue into focus. This is not solely about AI or privacy. It is about ownership, control and who captures the economic value created by enterprise data. We argue that customer data should never become a hidden second form of payment. Read the full article to see why the data-for-software bargain needs a rewrite: zpr.io/cyJ8cFNewxWx #DataOwnership #SaaS #EnterpriseIT #AI

Rocky Linux-related company CIQ has launched a major upgrade to its Ascender Pro automation platform, enabling it to detect issues across Linux servers, decide what to do, and automatically apply fixes. The new release adds Reaqt for rule-driven remediation, Federated Inventories for cross-environment routing, a local Galaxy registry, and an open-source proxy, all positioned as a drop-in AWX-compatible alternative at 60–80% lower total cost than per-node Ansible platform pricing. Read the full article to see how CIQ is removing the operator from Linux fleet repair: zpr.io/beKu2JGHhu7U #CIQ #AscenderPro #Linux #DevOps

The largest IT funding check this week didn’t go to a hot AI model but to a 2.67-gigawatt natural gas plant in West Texas, confirming that dedicated power has become the new bottleneck financing story in enterprise IT. Read our full roundup to see how these deals are reshaping AI infrastructure this week: zpr.io/BUsuBv5aCtGV #AIFunding #DataCenter #Inference #DevTools

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle have collectively piled on roughly $350 billion in new debt since 2019 to bankroll an AI data center surge, a high‑stakes wager that is already flashing warning signs from chilly bond demand to negative free cash flow and a ratings downgrade. Learn why executives remain resolute even as equity investors turn cautious, and how the cautionary tale of Intel hangs over this capital‑intensive pivot: zpr.io/avyv5qHtvUtS #AI #DataCenters #Debt #Amazon

The National Science Foundation has launched Project Triad, an effort to connect quantum sensors, networks, and computers into a shared test environment that could unlock practical applications from GPS‑free navigation to medical imaging. Learn more about the three programs that make up Project Triad and what they aim to achieve: zpr.io/294eEtSwtBAq #NSF #ProjectTriad #QuantumComputing #SciencePolicy

SAP reached an agreement with the European Commission to overhaul its on‑premises software maintenance and licensing policies, ending an antitrust investigation without a fine. The deal gives enterprises more control by letting them split their environments, choose third‑party support, or reduce maintenance costs, changes that will remain in place for 10 years. See what the new flexibility means for SAP customers managing hybrid environments: zpr.io/h6vUrKKmcrik #SAP #Antitrust #EU #Cloud

A team from IBM, Oak Ridge, and the Cleveland Clinic just pulled off the first molecular simulation powered by quantum computing, calculating nine configurations of a liquid salt that could help produce tritium for nuclear fusion. The milestone quietly moves the conversation from theoretical possibility to practical result, proving that quantum‑assisted science is no longer a distant promise. Read more about what the breakthrough means for fusion energy and the quantum race: zpr.io/2pZWFCMT6TjR #QuantumComputing #NuclearFusion #IBM #Infrastructure

The collapse of a $100 billion Virginia data center project and new New Jersey legislation that shields residents from grid costs are two signals that the AI infrastructure boom is entering a much tougher phase. Even as Anthropic locks in a 20‑year, $19 billion campus deal, developers face stricter regulation, more community scrutiny, and a patchwork of state‑level policies. Find out how these three developments are reshaping the data center landscape: zpr.io/XEabDPJagzE3 #DataCenters #AIInfrastructure #Anthropic #AgenticAI

IBM is making mainframes more accessible with the new z17 and LinuxONE 5 configurations, including rack‑mounted systems that plug into existing data centers and deliver up to 82 cores and 18 TB of memory. Learn how the new form factors change the mainframe deployment equation: zpr.io/ddbyKPYs3C4U #IBM #Mainframe #Infrastructure #LinuxONE

AI expansion meets community pushback: Microsoft faces a class action over noise from its Wisconsin data center, raising concerns about balancing growth and impact. Read more: zpr.io/WuZ5cQhFEX7F #DataCenters #AIInfrastructure #Microsoft #CloudComputing

Elon Musk called reports of a slim SpaceX AI handset “utterly false,” but the rumored prototype, running a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip and a proprietary OS, lines up neatly with the ambition to sidestep Apple’s and Google’s storefronts. Even if the device is an early experiment, the vision of a native xAI‑powered consumer gadget won’t quiet down easily. See why the “everything app” strategy keeps circling back to hardware: zpr.io/t7KJMuZQbEfd #SpaceX #ElonMusk #AI #ConsumerHardware

This week's IT job roundup includes a Senior Systems Engineer at DoorDash in San Francisco, a remote Senior Infrastructure Engineer at LiveKit, and a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Beacon AI in San Carlos. Food‑delivery platform engineering, real‑time video infrastructure, and AI‑driven aviation tech each offer a different infrastructure challenge this week. See the full list for all ten opportunities here: zpr.io/rtqse2taFLw7 #CloudInfrastructure #SRE #DoorDash #TechCareers

China has brought online its first AI data center powered entirely through a direct connection to renewable energy, achieving a PUE of 1.15 with advanced liquid cooling. The facility in Zhongwei is a flagship for the country’s “Eastern Data, Western Computing” push to shift AI workloads to renewable‑rich western regions. Learn more about the project and Beijing’s clean‑energy and AI infrastructure strategy: zpr.io/j3zBsk4xnmWK #China #AI #DataCenter #Infrastructure

At Mobility Field Day, HPE demonstrated how it’s unifying Aruba and Juniper Mist under a single AI‑driven roadmap to deliver a self‑driving network that can perceive, diagnose, and remediate its own issues. Synthetic digital twins now run continuous tests during off‑hours so that performance problems are caught before employees arrive. Find out how the campus network is moving from firefighting to policy‑driven automation: zpr.io/QbtcTwcccMvB #HPE #MobilityFieldDay #AIOps #Infrastructure

This week's IT funding report includes Vast Data raising roughly $1 billion to expand its AI data platform, Nearfield Instruments securing $380 million for chip metrology, and Upscale AI adding $190 million for open-standard AI networking fabric. See the full report for all five deals and what they reveal about where enterprise investment is heading: zpr.io/Fbd3PMe59fZj #ITFunding #AI #Semiconductors #Cloud

Microsoft has extended free security updates for Windows 10 consumers through October 2027, giving users more time to hold onto PCs that can’t meet Windows 11’s hardware requirements. Read more about how the hardware market is reshaping operating system support strategies: zpr.io/6W82vfhgZin4 #Microsoft #Windows10 #Infrastructure #Hardware

Debate over AI infrastructure now spans energy, environment, and the economy. A proposal to halt new data centers has intensified concerns about grid strain versus the need for continued innovation. Congress must now decide the future path for AI. Read more: zpr.io/6RkmScStdvDb #AIInfrastructure #EnergyPolicy #DataCenters #PowerGrid

Stadium wireless has long been plagued by sawtooth coverage, harsh signal drops between tightly focused beams that crater throughput when fans shift a few feet. A new approach from Cisco is smoothing those cell edges with wider, software‑configurable beam angles, delivering consistent connectivity across the seating bowl. Find out how hardware and software changes are reshaping high‑density venue design: zpr.io/fGJ556mYrAmA #Cisco #Infrastructure #Wireless #StadiumTech