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Nvidia Opens Its Vera Rubin Rack Designs to the Open Compute Project and Pushes Racks Up to 250 Kilowatts

At the Open Compute Project summit in San Jose, Nvidia contributed rack and tray blueprints, new liquid-cooling specs and open software, while Meta and Cisco signed on to new networking.

Oct 13, 2026/2 min read

An Open Compute Project server tray with its lid open at an industry event, photographed in April 2013, a file photograph illustrative of open rack hardware and not of Nvidia's Vera Rubin designs

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Bronze Ring Engraved With the Lighthouse of Alexandria Found in the Sunken Royal Palace on Antirhodos

Underwater archaeologists working in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour have recovered a signet ring that appears to show the vanished ancient wonder, the first such image known on a seal ring.

Oct 13, 2026/2 min read

The Citadel of Qaitbay in Alexandria, Egypt, the 15th century fortress built on the site of the ancient lighthouse, photographed in September 2014, a file photograph and not of the ring or the underwater excavation

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Gannets Survive 70 mph Dives Thanks to an Extra Joint Facet in Their Neck Bones, a New Study Finds

CT scans of seabird skeletons show plunge-diving birds have stockier neck vertebrae with an added bracing surface, a design that may also help fossil hunters spot ancient divers.

Oct 13, 2026/2 min read

A northern gannet seen from below in flight over Shetland against a blue sky, photographed in August 2009, a file photograph of the species and not from the study

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Drones Take Out a Third Yandex Data Centre in a Week, Hitting the Hardware Behind Russia's AI Push

Ukrainian drones shut Yandex's Vladimir facility on Sunday after hits on Sasovo and Kaluga, and a Cloudflare reading showing automated traffic from Yandex's network down about 94 per cent.

Oct 12, 2026/2 min read

The glass front of Yandex's main office in Moscow with the company's name on the building, photographed in May 2019, a file photograph illustrative of the company and not of the data centres struck this week

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Eight Orangutans Rescued From Borneo's Fires Are Released Into the Batu Nyambu Protected Forest

Three mothers with babies and two teenage males were moved to a 23,000-hectare reserve in West Kalimantan as El Nino-driven fires keep burning through habitat that holds half of Borneo's orangutans.

Oct 11, 2026/2 min read

A Bornean orangutan mother and her infant resting on a branch in the forest of Tanjung Puting National Park, photographed in November 2018, a file photograph illustrative of the species and not of the animals released this week

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Cloudflare Buys Deno, the Rival Runtime From Node.js Creator Ryan Dahl, and the Whole Team Is Joining

Deno's team moves into Cloudflare to build a self-hostable Workers model, while the standalone runtime heads for a one-year wind-down and its hosting service for a shutdown.

Oct 10, 2026/2 min read

The wall of lava lamps in the lobby of a Cloudflare office, photographed in December 2021, a file photograph of the company's offices and not of the Deno announcement

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SpaceX Agrees to Buy a Nationwide Block of 800 MHz Spectrum, Reportedly for $8 Billion, to Back Starlink Mobile

The deal for Grain Management's low-band licences needs FCC approval. Analysts say spectrum brings coverage, not capacity, and a rival network could cost between $50 billion and $130 billion.

Oct 9, 2026/3 min read

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink V2 Mini satellites leaving Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 30 March 2024, a file photograph illustrative of Starlink and not of the spectrum deal

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Webb and MeerKAT Find the Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Yet, From a Small Galaxy About 11 Billion Years Back

FRB 20240304B was caught by South Africa's MeerKAT and its host found by Webb. The galaxy is a surprise, a young dwarf far lighter than expected, and it favours magnetars over mergers.

Oct 9, 2026/2 min read

MeerKAT radio telescope dishes in South Africa's Northern Cape, in a photograph published by the Square Kilometre Array Observatory in 2018, a file photograph of the telescope that detected the burst and not an image of the burst

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Finland Orders Google to Stop Forest Clearing at Two Data Centre Sites Until Environmental Reviews Finish

The licensing agency says tree felling, topsoil stripping and road building at Muhos and Kajaani must stop by 23 October, and police are looking at a complaint over the Muhos work.

Oct 9, 2026/3 min read

Google's data centre at Hamina, Finland, on the site of a former paper mill, photographed on 29 July 2016, a file photograph of the existing Hamina site and not of the Muhos or Kajaani sites

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Manus Raised More Than $500 Million Six Months After China Forced Meta to Unwind Its $2 Billion Takeover

The Singapore-based AI agent startup says Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led its first round since buying itself back, with Tencent returning, and it has not disclosed a valuation.

Oct 9, 2026/2 min read

The Singapore financial district skyline seen across Marina Bay, photographed on 16 August 2023, a file photograph illustrative of the city where Manus is based and not of the company

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NASA's Crew-12 Splashed Down Off California After 237 Days in Space

Dragon Freedom touched down in the Pacific at 8:34 a.m. Pacific time on 8 October with four crew members, ending a flight that included 235 days on the International Space Station.

Oct 9, 2026/2 min read

Support teams on the SpaceX recovery ship Shannon working around the Crew Dragon Endurance shortly after it landed with the Crew-5 astronauts, photographed on 11 March 2023, a file photograph of an earlier mission and not of the Crew-12 landing