Microsoft Doubles Down on Custom AI Chip; CrowdStrike Brandishes Big Bucks for Browser Security

Описание: Take a Network Break! We've got Red Alerts for HPE Juniper Session Smart Routers and SolarWinds. In this week's news, Microsoft debuts its second-generation AI inferencing chip, Mplify rolls out a new Carrier Ethernet certification for supporting AI workloads, and AWS upgrades its network firewall to spot GenAI application traffic and filter Web categories.
Google takes down a massive residential proxy network used in botnets, residents of a Wisconsin town say "No" to a proposed data center project, and AT&T brings its IoT management offering to AWS.
CrowdStrike spends $420 million to acquire a browser secruity startup, Microsoft's cloud revenue crosses $50 billion for the first time ever, and ASML posts record revenues for 2025.
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Links:
Vulnerability Details : CVE-2025-21589 - https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-20...
Security Vulnerabilities, CVEs published since 2026-01-22 - https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerabil...
SolarWinds warns of critical Web Help Desk RCE, auth bypass flaws - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news...
Microsoft Launches Custom Silicon: The Maia 200 and the New Economics of AI Inference - https://techsoda.substack.com/p/micro...
Mplify Advances Carrier Ethernet Certifications to Meet Accelerating Demands of Business and AI-Era Networking -https://www.mplify.net/news/mplify-ad...
Mplify Carrier Ethernet for AI Certification - https://www.mplify.net/wp-content/upl...
Mplify launches AI-focused Carrier Ethernet certifications - https://www.networkworld.com/article/...
AWS Network Firewall now supports GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filtering - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what...
Why AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud-native firewalls 'suck' - https://www.sdxcentral.com/analysis/w...
No Place Like Home Network: Disrupting the World's Largest Residential Proxy Network - https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...
QTS drops plan for data center near Madison, Wisconsin, amid opposition from local officials - https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en...
Village of DeForest declares data center proposal is not feasible - https://www.wkow.com/news/top-stories...
Inside the secretive world of America's AI data centers - https://www.businessinsider.com/insid...
AT&T Launches Our First End-to-End IoT Solution on the AWS Marketplace with Connected Spaces - https://about.att.com/story/2026/conn...
CrowdStrike to Acquire Seraphic, Turning Any Browser into a Secure Enterprise Browser - https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/pre...
CrowdStrike to Acquire Browser Security Firm Seraphic for $420 Million - https://www.securityweek.com/crowdstr...
Microsoft Cloud and AI strength drives second quarter results - https://news.microsoft.com/source/202...
ASML reports €32.7 billion total net sales and €9.6 billion net income in 2025 - https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-re...
ASML announces 1,700 job cuts after publishing record results for FY2025 - https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en...

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