No current news items. It takes the devices as files concept further than Unix did. It's designed to utilize network resources more efficiently and transparently then Unix.
Terminals are the user interface to the whole network.
The cpu server exists for compute intensive processes such as compiling or rendering. The file server does nothing but manage filesystems. At the kernel interface level, there are a whole host of system calls to support the new concepts embodied by the system. Using devices both local and remote is as simple as mounting a remote filesystem. Indeed, it literally is mounting a remote filesystem.