Tech Docs
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Sony has paid security researcher Jordy, known as 2tonejordy on HackerOne, a $50,000 bounty after PlayStation marked a privately reported vulnerability as resolved. Dexerto reported the payout on October 14, while public HackerOne activity shows the $50,000 award attached to Jordy’s account. Kalshi highlighted the payment on X. Jordy also joked after receiving the bounty…
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Canaan reported mining 44 BTC in September 2026 while holding its average all-in power cost at $0.043/kWh. The company ended the month with 1,875 BTC on its balance sheet. Non-joint-venture installed hashrate remained at 10.00 EH/s. Canaan’s West Texas joint ventures finished September with 4.87 EH/s installed and 4.18 EH/s operating. Its North American non-JV…
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AI clusters are turning optical networking into part of the compute architecture itself. This countdown ranks seven fiber-optic technologies by 2026 deployment momentum, bandwidth density, power efficiency, interoperability, reach and their ability to scale modern AI and cloud infrastructure. The direction is visible in the Ethernet Alliance’s OFC 2026 interoperability work, where live demonstrations reached…
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Samsung says its large-format The Wall display is now serving very different control-room jobs: citywide monitoring in Johor, Malaysia, and NASCAR’s Remote Race Control center in Concord, North Carolina. The underlying requirement is similar in both places: operators need many live feeds visible at once, with little tolerance for downtime. Samsung says The Wall uses…
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Elon Musk says SpaceX could exceed a $100 trillion valuation within 10 years. The forecast would require roughly 48 times the company’s current market value.
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Elon Musk says SpaceX could exceed a $100 trillion market capitalization within 10 years. The projection would imply roughly 48 times the company’s current market value.
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AI racks are pushing data-center thermal design far beyond the era when a raised floor and room-level air conditioning could handle nearly every workload. This countdown ranks seven cooling technologies by their ability to support 2026 AI and HPC rack densities, deployment maturity, retrofit practicality, efficiency, serviceability and long-term scalability. The ranking follows the direction…
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Opinion: One Grok Bot “Primary Bot” avatar deserves a design review. To our eye, the pointed teardrop silhouette, narrow eye marks and dark or gray variants can resemble the pointed hood associated with the Ku Klux Klan. That is a visual judgment, not an allegation of intent. We found no evidence that SpaceXAI, X, Grok…
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CERN and Mistral plan a foundation model trained on billions of simulated LHC collisions to support particle reconstruction, identification, anomaly detection and detector design.
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Dutch specialty foundry Xiver is adding an ASML PAS 5500 deep-ultraviolet lithography system to expand its photonics and microsystems manufacturing capability. Xiver announced the acquisition on October 13, 2026, saying the tool will improve fine patterning, dimensional control, alignment and pattern fidelity for specialty devices. The PAS 5500 is a mature lithography platform, but mature…
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South Korea’s KT has launched dedicated links for AI infrastructure with bandwidth options up to 800 Gbps, expanding from the roughly 100 Gbps ceiling of its earlier dedicated-line offerings. KT announced the service on October 14, 2026 for organizations moving large volumes of data between AI data centers and other computing sites. The new service…
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ByteDance is reportedly close to an agreement to buy MediaTek semiconductors for data-center use. Reuters reported on October 15, citing Bloomberg News, that the companies are nearing a supply deal. Reuters said it had not independently confirmed the agreement, so the transaction should still be treated as reported rather than final. The potential deal matters…
