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Tech Optimizer

January 17, 2026

ClickHouse: $400 Million Series D Raised, Langfuse Acquisition, And Native Postgres Service Debuted

ClickHouse has secured 0 million in a Series D funding round led by Dragoneer Investment Group, with participation from investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners, GIC, and others. The funding will support global expansion and product development, focusing on AI infrastructure and application monitoring. ClickHouse currently has over 3,000 customers on its ClickHouse Cloud platform, with an annual recurring revenue growth exceeding 250% year over year. Recent adopters include Capital One, Lovable, and Airwallex, alongside established clients like Meta and Tesla. ClickHouse has acquired Langfuse, an open-source platform for LLM observability, and introduced a native Postgres service for integrating transactional workloads with its analytical engine. The company is also expanding its ecosystem and geographic reach through partnerships, including one with Japan Cloud and collaboration with Microsoft Azure.

AppWizard

November 18, 2025

Cloudflare is down, crippling X, ChatGPT, and more in widespread outage

Cloudflare experienced a significant outage on November 18, 2025, around 6:00 am ET, disrupting a large portion of the global web and causing widespread "500 errors" and internal server issues. Major platforms such as X, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Canva were rendered inoperable, along with popular online games like League of Legends. Cloudflare stated it was investigating the issue impacting multiple customers but did not provide a specific explanation. There was scheduled maintenance at its Santiago data center on the same day from 12:00 to 15:00 UTC. While some recovery was reported in the UK, users in the US continued to face error messages.

Winsage

November 20, 2024

Microsoft readies Copilot Studio for agentic AI

Microsoft has introduced new services and products to enhance its AI agent portfolio at the Ignite 2024 conference, including significant upgrades to Copilot Studio with improved knowledge sources and tuning capabilities. The autonomous agents in Copilot Studio, currently in public preview, now feature multimodal capabilities for voice and image analysis. Updated security measures have been implemented, including encryption and data loss prevention, to ensure data protection. Microsoft plans to roll out autonomous capabilities in Copilot Studio by November. A Capgemini survey indicates that over 80% of executives intend to integrate AI agents within the next three years, with Toyota Motor Corporation already using generative AI agents. Gartner's Avivah Litan warned that by 2028, one in four enterprise breaches may be linked to AI agent misuse. KPMG is exploring AI agents but prioritizes establishing security measures before production. The deployment of agentic AI will require increased computing capacity, prompting Microsoft to develop customized chips and an Azure Boost DPU for enhanced security and workload optimization. Additionally, the Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module has been created to improve data center security.

Winsage

July 23, 2024

Here’s Hitachi Ventura’s Response To Blue Screen Disruption In Windows

A series of global IT outages on July 19 caused disruptions across various sectors, emphasizing the importance of data protection and cyber resilience. Matthew, the Chief Technology Officer at Hitachi Vantara, highlighted the need for robust infrastructure and collaboration with hybrid cloud providers to establish a holistic data resilience strategy. Organizations should focus on restoring normal operations and use the incident as a catalyst for positive change to ensure systems can handle unexpected challenges.

AppWizard

July 8, 2024

Protocol Village: Hinkal, Instititutional-Grade Self-Custodial Protocol, Plans Launch of ‘Shared Privacy’

Celo has launched a layer-2 testnet called "Dango" on Ethereum, which is a fork of the Alfajores testnet. "Dango" allows for the bridging of WETH and ERC-20 tokens between Ethereum and Celo, introduces the concept of CELO token duality, and maintains key layer-1 features like Fee Abstraction and SocialConnect. The Alfajores testnet will be directly migrated for dApp developers to test once infrastructure providers have updated for the layer-2 integration.