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Canceled Games and Layoffs Persist Despite Financial Support

Canceled Games and Layoffs Persist Despite Financial Support

Feb 4, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Ubisoft recently experienced a business decline despite its stabilization efforts during 2025, which included a major investment from Tencent. Tencent brought in significant funding and operational support, but it failed to avert the company's financial and operational crisis. A crisis that worsened with time. In March 2025, Ubisoft announced the establishment of a new subsidiary to operate its three most valuable franchises when Tencent purchased a €1.16 billion minority stake (~25 %) in that subsidiary.
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devart

Best PostgreSQL ODBC Drivers in 2026: How to Choose

Feb 3, 2026 By Dereck Mushingairi In Devart
PostgreSQL ODBC drivers are no longer background components. For teams running BI, reporting, and ETL on PostgreSQL, the drivers directly affect how fast queries run, how reliably dashboards refresh, and whether data pipelines remain stable as usage grows. As PostgreSQL moves deeper into analytics stacks, these capabilities are driving the demand for these tools, a trend reflected in broader ODBC market growth.
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statusgator

January 2026 Early Warning Signals

Feb 3, 2026 By Andy Libby In StatusGator
January 2026 saw a wave of high-impact service disruptions across social platforms, telecom providers, developer tools, education services, and streaming apps. In several cases, StatusGator detected problems minutes or even hours before providers publicly acknowledged them, and in many cases, providers never acknowledged them at all. Unfortunately, many providers still do not have public status pages, leaving users with little visibility into what is happening during an outage.
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elastic

Elastic 9.3: Chat with your data, build custom AI agents, automate everything

Feb 3, 2026 By Dan Courcy In Elastic
Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Elastic 9.3 as the latest version of the Elasticsearch Platform — the world’s most popular open source platform for transforming both structured and unstructured data into trusted answers and outcomes. In addition to including new features that help developers with context engineering and agent building, Elastic 9.3 introduces a broad set of new capabilities to Elastic Search & AI, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security.
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tigera

Calico Ingress Gateway: Key FAQs Before Migrating from NGINX Ingress Controller

Feb 3, 2026 By Tigera Team In Tigera
We recently sat down with representatives from 42 companies to discuss a pivotal moment in Kubernetes networking: the NGINX Ingress retirement. With the March 2026 retirement of the NGINX Ingress Controller fast approaching, platform teams are now facing a hard deadline to modernize their ingress strategy.
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puppet

What is DevOps? Definition, Lifecycle, Best Practices, & Tools

Feb 3, 2026 By Puppet In Puppet
We’ve seen a huge explosion of interest in DevOps over the last few years. But for people who are new to these ideas, it’s not always obvious what DevOps entails and what the benefits are, particularly in larger environments. So, what is DevOps all about? And what do you need to know to succeed? In this blog, you’ll get a breakdown of how DevOps works, its benefits, and the best practices and tools that help teams build and deploy software with speed and confidence.
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haproxy

Properly securing OpenClaw with authentication

Feb 3, 2026 By Jakub Suchy In HAProxy
OpenClaw (née MoltBot, née ClawdBot) is taking over the world. Everyone is spinning their own, either on a VPS, or their own Mac mini. But here's the problem: OpenClaw is brand new, and its security posture is mostly unknown. Security researchers have already found thousands of publicly available instances exposing everything from credentials to private messages.
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grafana

How Prometheus Remote Write v2 can help cut network egress costs by as much as 50%

Feb 3, 2026 By Sam DeHaan In Grafana
Back in 2021, Grafana Labs CTO Tom Wilkie (then VP of Products) spoke at PromCON about the need for improvements in Prometheus' remote write capabilities. “We use between 10 and 2 bytes per sample to send via remote write, and Prometheus only uses 1 or 2 bytes per sample on the local disk so there’s big, big room for improvement,” Wilkie said at the time.
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grafana

Grafana Assistant: Why you can trust our agent-and yourself-in an era of AI hallucinations

Feb 3, 2026 By Amelie Sutsakhan In Grafana
Let’s be real: AI can hallucinate. And in observability, that feels risky. No one wants an assistant that sends your SREs chasing ghosts. At best, that burns expensive engineering time. At worst, it slows incident response in production and pushes teams toward the wrong remediation path. So here’s the big question: What makes Grafana Assistant different, and why should you trust it? Let’s start by acknowledging the fear. AI hallucinations are a real issue.
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