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DDR5 laptop memory prices surge sixfold, prompting XMG price rises
The increases bring component shortages directly to buyers, while any price relief depends on XMG’s costs falling.
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Meta runs Muse agents in CPU-only AMD sandboxes
An offer of SSH access to Muse’s private VM raises questions about what the agent could do, though harmful commands had not occurred.
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Latest MCP spec removes session affinity for remote servers
Interrupted operations may need retries, so side-effecting tools need to handle repeat calls safely.
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New Jersey fines DataOne $1.07 million over unpermitted generators
The company must secure permits or stop using the generators at its construction site.
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NASA targets early-2030s launch for first Probe Explorer, PRIMA
The mission would offer a lower-cost alternative to flagship observatories while aiming to deliver more science than smaller Explorer projects.
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AMD starts wiring GDDR7 and new GPU IP into Linux kernel drivers
The driver updates point to active bring-up of RDNA 5 discrete Radeon GPUs, even as AMD keeps specs and timing under wraps.
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Perplexity moves core search reads from DynamoDB to CobbleDB
Production batch reads are faster, but the measurements do not establish whether users get search results faster.
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Cloudflare slashes 1.1.1.1 DNS cache memory use and speeds up queries
A leaner cache layout frees about 100 TB of RAM and makes Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 resolver faster under load.
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Starfish Space’s founding story began with questions about orbital traffic
Its founders considered how to manage satellite growth while preserving low-Earth orbit.
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Intel says 14A will be within 5% of TSMC’s A14
Clock-based estimates vary with the reference chip and do not predict future CPU speeds.
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SpaceX completes Starship rehearsal ahead of planned first orbital test
The flight is also set to carry the first next-generation Starlink V3 satellites slated to join the constellation.
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Tower plans $4 billion expansion of Japan optical-chip production
The build-out would greatly expand Tower’s Japanese manufacturing footprint, though its financial impact is expected later.
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Modal ditches Kubernetes-style control to spin up 1 million sandboxes in seconds
By pushing state to workers and parallel schedulers, Modal shows how far large-scale sandboxing can go without traditional Kubernetes coordination.
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Falcon 9 wind-down tightens launch market as HyPrSpace slips to 2027
Satellite operators face higher costs and fewer near-term options as Falcon 9 retires and Baguette One’s debut moves to 2027.
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Meta to lay 1 petabit transatlantic Petal cable between US and France
The 2029 Petal system aims to double Meta’s current capacity on the route and bolster European connectivity resilience.
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SpaceXAI’s planned additions could bring its GB300 fleet to 1.1 million
The build-out is unfolding alongside a neighborhood lawsuit, with turbine removal tied to the new plant coming online.
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Oracle triggers force majeure on key New Mexico Stargate data center
The move preserves Oracle’s ability to delay payments if its flagship AI campus slips past its 2028 target start date.
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Waymo data shows big safety gains as robotaxis scale to more cities
Lower crash rates strengthen Waymo’s safety case, but patchy reporting rules and city politics still limit where it can operate.
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Google schedules first Project Suncatcher satellite for October 1 launch
The flight will put AI hardware in orbit for a real-world test, but a useful operational system remains years away.
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China launches Supercomputing-1 satellite to process Earth data in orbit
The AI-powered satellite shifts Earth-observation workloads off the ground, as China organizes a broader space computing network.