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NEXTDC Opens Peninsular Malaysia's First Tier IV Data Centre with RM2.8 Billion KL1 Launch in Petaling Jaya

NEXTDC officially opened KL1 in Petaling Jaya on 14 May 2026 — an AUD$1 billion facility that holds Peninsular Malaysia's first Uptime Institute Tier IV certification and delivers 65MW of AI-grade IT capacity.

1 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

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Indonesia's INA Locks In 30% Annual Allocation for AI and Data Centre Infrastructure

Indonesia's sovereign wealth fund INA has formalised a 30% annual cap on digital sector deployment, anchored by a joint venture with Singapore-headquartered DayOne — the GDS Holdings-founded operator now IPO-bound — and a record rupiah loan closed in mid-2025 that structured the 72 MW Batam campus now open.

1 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

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Microsoft Build 2026: Project Polaris Cuts Copilot's OpenAI Dependency, Copilot Workspace Ships to GA

Microsoft confirmed at Build 2026 in San Francisco that GitHub Copilot will run on Project Polaris — its own mixture-of-experts coding model — by August 2026, replacing GPT-4 Turbo as the default engine across all subscribers. Copilot Workspace went generally available the same day.

1 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

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Kubernetes v1.36 Lands Alpha Gang Scheduling and DRA Advances for GPU Workloads

Kubernetes v1.36 "Haru" introduces a native PodGroup API for all-or-nothing gang scheduling — currently Alpha — alongside DRA advances that let GPU claims be declared at the workload level. Three security features, including Mutating Admission Policies via CEL, graduate to stable in the same release.

1 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

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OpenTelemetry Graduates CNCF: 12,000 Contributors Lock In the Industry's Unified Observability Standard

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation graduated OpenTelemetry on 21 May 2026, confirming it as the production-grade, vendor-neutral observability standard — with 12,000-plus contributors, over 2,000 active each quarter, and 1.36 billion JavaScript API downloads in the past year alone.

1 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

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China Certifies Nine Domestic AI Chips for State Procurement Under Anke Framework Expansion

Nine AI chips from seven Chinese vendors cleared Anke government security certification on 27 May 2026 — the first time AI accelerators have had their own category under Beijing's Xinchuang technology-substitution framework, formalising state procurement pressure on domestic silicon.

1 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

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GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing, and developers are not happy

From 1 June, every GitHub Copilot plan bills by usage. Your coding assistant now spends "GitHub AI Credits" measured in tokens, replacing the old flat allowance of premium requests. Headline prices are unchanged, but the meter is new, and the official announcement drew hundreds of complaints.

1 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

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GitLab 19.0 drops Redis for Valkey by default and brings Gitaly to Kubernetes

GitLab's biggest release in a year makes Valkey the default in-memory store, removing bundled Redis from its Linux package, and adds fully supported Gitaly-on-Kubernetes. For platform teams, 19.0 is a major-version upgrade with real migration work attached.

1 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

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Lablup open-sources MLXcel, an Apple-Silicon inference engine, under Apache 2.0

Lablup has released MLXcel, an open-source engine for running AI models on Apple Silicon, under the permissive Apache 2.0 licence. The pitch is plain: spread the ability to run inference onto everyday Mac hardware, rather than concentrating it in a few clouds.

1 Jun 2026 · 2 min read