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Stargate: Inside OpenAI's $100B Plan to Build AI Infrastructure
The Stargate Project is a $500 billion joint venture announced in January 2025 to build AI compute infrastructure across the United States—the largest private AI infrastructure commitment in history. Here's what's actually being built, who's paying, and what it means for the future of compute.
DNS-Persist-01: Let's Encrypt's New Model for Permanent Certificate Validation
DNS-Persist-01 is a proposed ACME challenge type that allows persistent DNS TXT records for certificate validation, eliminating the need for real-time DNS updates with each renewal as certificate lifetimes shrink to 45 days by 2028.
Tailscale Peer Relays: The Missing Piece for True P2P Networking
Tailscale Peer Relays became generally available on February 18, 2026, enabling high-throughput peer-to-peer relaying within your own infrastructure. This feature eliminates the performance bottleneck of DERP servers when NAT traversal fails, delivering true mesh networking even in restrictive network environments.