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SRE & Ops — Meta Networking at the 2026 OCP Global Summit: Open Innovation for Scale-Up, Scale-Out, and Scale-Across AI Networks

Meta Networking at the 2026 OCP Global Summit: Open Innovation for Scale-Up, Scale-Out, and Scale-Across AI Networks

At the 2026 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, Meta shared the networking innovations that are directly supporting our latest AI models, including Muse Wonder and Muse Spark, and our gigawatt-scale Prometheus cluster. Highlights IcePack & IceCube: Meta’s first liquid-cooled network rack with 102.4T switch blades (128×800G, Broadcom Tomahawk 6C and NVIDIA Spectrum-6 variants), running [...]

MEMeta Engineering·October 26, 2026SRE & Ops
AI & ML — “We should be more ambitious with the software we build”

“We should be more ambitious with the software we build”

Since early this year, Michael Malis (of pgrust ) has been showing me interesting things he's done and saying [W]e should be more ambitious 1 with the software we build There is, understandably, a lot of skepticism about projects like pgrust because there are so many low-quality AI-generated projects out there. If I didn't know Malis and didn't look into it, I would just assume that pgrust was ano

DLDan Luu·October 24, 2026AI & ML
Engineering — Accordion Icons: Which Work Best?

Accordion Icons: Which Work Best?

A closer look at accordion icons, why split menus are harmful, and why it’s better not to have icons and text labels link to different actions. Plus, why the caret is the safest icon choice. You’ll find more [useful guides](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/guides/) and [online workshops](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops) here on Smashing Magazine, so make sure to browse and explo

SMSmashing Magazine·October 23, 2026Engineering
Databases — Introducing full transaction detection for Cloudflare WAF

Introducing full transaction detection for Cloudflare WAF

Cloudflare's web application firewall can now correlate an HTTP request with its response. Full transaction detection helps every customer find successful exploits, data exposure, and risky misconfigurations that request-only inspection can miss.

DMDaniele Molteni·October 21, 2026Databases
Security — Cloudflare deploys protections against php2shell vulnerability

Cloudflare deploys protections against php2shell vulnerability

Cloudflare has deployed default web application firewall (WAF) protections for newly disclosed PHP vulnerabilities before public disclosure. The rules use request and response signals to stop exploit attempts and prevent exposed data from reaching attackers.

DMDaniele Molteni·October 21, 2026Security
Frontend — The Future of CSS ✨

The Future of CSS ✨

Every year, browser vendors collaborate via the Interop project to synchronize their efforts on new HTML/CSS/JS features. This year, there’s a ton of super exciting features being considered! In this blog post, we’ll explore the CSS of the future, to get a glimpse of what we’ll soon be able to do.

JWJosh W. Comeau·October 20, 2026Frontend