Global – November 10, 2026 -- CIQ told delegates at AI Infrastructure Field Day that roughly 9,000 GPU nodes cost about $15.6 million in GPU hours for every 30 days they sat idle, according to a CIQ calculation based on one customer's deployment. The company used the figure to argue for building AI infrastructure from independent, replaceable layers instead of buying a single-vendor stack.

CIQ says AI stack layers change on one-to-three-month cycles

CIQ's presenter said every layer of the AI stack is changing at once, with some layers turning over every one to three months and hardware revised within a year. In the customer example, GPUs arrived before the rest of the data center was ready. Teams under production pressure often request a complete AI factory from one vendor, which commits them to that vendor's fixed view of the stack at one point in time.

Global – November 10, 2026 -- Roughly 9,000 nodes of current-generation NVIDIA hardware cost about $15.6 million in GPU hours for every 30 days they sit idle, according to a calculation CIQ presented with a customer whose hardware arrived before networking, cooling and software were ready. The figure is the presenter's own estimate, offered at AI Infrastructure Field Day to argue against buying a complete, single-vendor "AI factory."

CIQ says every AI stack layer will change within a year

The presenter said layers are changing at once, some on one-month to three-month cycles, while hardware is revised within a year. Teams are simultaneously asked to move from research to production in about three months.

Global – November 10, 2026 -- CIQ says Rocky Linux from CIQ Pro AI (RLC Pro AI) deploys a GPU node in 3 minutes 44 seconds on the happy path and delivered 18% more model-loading throughput than Ubuntu 24.04 with the HWE kernel. The company presented the results at AI Infrastructure Field Day.

RLC Pro AI ships CUDA, NVIDIA drivers and tested frameworks inside the OS

The Enterprise Linux distribution bundles CUDA, the NVIDIA drivers, and frameworks such as PyTorch and Ollama, all tested together. On other distributions, CIQ says, a new GPU node means finding the right driver, compiling kernel modules, adjusting boot parameters and rebooting before a matching framework can be installed.

Global – November 10, 2026 -- CIQ's Fuzzball orchestration software lets operators describe an HPC or AI job in one YAML file and run it across five cloud platforms and on-premises clusters, so a new workload type no longer requires a separate stack, according to a session at AI Infrastructure Field Day.

One YAML file defines compute, containers, data and job order

A Fuzzball workflow specifies the compute each job needs, the container images it runs, the data it uses and the sequence of jobs. A training job can request GPUs, and a serving job can depend on it. Deployment targets are AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, CoreWeave and Azure, alongside on-premises clusters. Where an operator runs more than one cluster, Fuzzball places each job by cost, performance and data locality.

Global – November 10, 2026 -- CIQ shipped fixed PHP 8.0 packages for Rocky Linux from CIQ Pro (RLC Pro) LTS 9.6 and 9.2 about three and a half hours after the PHP project released its PHP2Shell fix, covering a version upstream no longer supports.

CIQ built PHP 8.0.30 fixes from source-only upstream backports

The PHP project announced a critical security release the day before, disclosing only its severity. CIQ staffed up ahead of disclosure. The upstream fix went public just before 14:00 UTC, and within the hour the base PHP 8.0 fixes for both LTS releases were in review.

The project shipped fixed releases for PHP 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5. For PHP 8.0 it published only "minimal source-backports" and no official binaries. RLC Pro LTS 9.6 and 9.2 ship PHP 8.0.30, so CIQ engineers built, tested and published php-8.0.30-3.4.el9_6_ciq for LTS 9.6 and php-8.0.30-1.2.el9_2_ciq for LTS 9.2.

Global – November 10, 2026 -- Warewulf Pro 4.7 keeps stateless compute nodes joined to Active Directory across reboots by moving the join to the Warewulf server, using two overlays shipped in the warewulf-overlays-sssd package. Nodes never run realm join; the join happens once per node on the server.

Two overlays carry the join to every booting node

Warewulf nodes boot from a network-served image, so anything written to the root filesystem at runtime, including a realm join, disappears on reboot. The sssd system overlay configures SSSD and the Kerberos default realm on each node. The krb5.keytab runtime overlay delivers each node's Kerberos keytab from the server.

The node image needs the sssd, sssd-ad, adcli, krb5-workstation and authselect packages, with SSSD selected as the authentication profile. Not every Warewulf node image includes authselect, so it must be installed explicitly.

Global – November 10, 2026 -- The PHP project shipped fixes on October 21 for two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, both rated 9.2 under CVSS v4.0 and enabling unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) over HTTP. Dubbed PHP2Shell, the flaws sit in the language itself, so every application built on PHP inherits the exposure.

Wiz says every PHP version back to 5.4 is affected

Wiz, one of the groups that reported the bugs, says PHP powers 70% of the world's websites. Against Apache with mod_php, the attack works before any application code runs.

HOUSTON – November 10, 2026 -- MSC Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE: MSIF) will pay $0.36 per share in dividends for the first quarter of 2027, after its Board of Directors declared regular monthly dividends totaling $0.33 and a $0.03 supplemental dividend.

Board sets $0.11 monthly dividends for January, February and March 2027

The regular cash dividends are $0.11 per share for each of the three months. The supplemental $0.03 per share dividend is payable in March 2027.

Supplemental dividend draws on taxable income left undistributed at September 30, 2026

The Fund will pay the $0.03 supplemental dividend out of undistributed taxable income, meaning taxable income in excess of dividends paid, as of September 30, 2026.

Tokyo – November 10, 2026 -- NTT, Inc. will become an Official Partner of the McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team for the 2027 season and beyond under a multi-year agreement with McLaren Racing, the companies announced on November 4, 2026.

AI security governance anchors the technology scope

NTT will help McLaren become the most AI-fluent team on the grid, with AI security governance at the core of the deal. NTT will support the framework used to manage security risks from AI use, and the companies describe this as an increasingly important function as the technology evolves. The stated aim is responsible and innovative AI adoption across the team.

OSLO – November 10, 2026 -- The Board of TGS ASA has resolved to distribute a quarterly dividend of USD 0.155 per share, equivalent to NOK 1.45 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2026. Payment is scheduled for 12 November 2026.

Board acts on 29 April AGM authorization

The Board approved the distribution on 21 October 2026, under the authorization granted by the Annual General Meeting on 29 April 2026. The declared currency is USD, with the NOK amount set at NOK 1.45 per share.

Shares trade ex-dividend on 29 October 2026

Investors must hold the shares by 28 October 2026, the last trading day including the dividend right. The stock trades ex-dividend on 29 October 2026, and the record date follows on 30 October 2026.

The cash payment reaches shareholders of record on 12 November 2026, two weeks after the record date.