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A Power Event in Google Cloud's London Region Knocked Out Banking Apps and Delivery Services for Hours

One availability zone lost power at 06:08 UTC on Tuesday. Customers saw Lloyds, HSBC and Revolut disrupted, and Google says an analysis will follow its investigation.

Oct 21, 2026/2 min read

An aerial view of rows of rooftop cooling units on a large data centre at night-time lighting, photographed on 23 November 2025, a file photograph illustrative of data centres and not of Google's London zone

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An Indian Certificate Authority's Private Keys Were Trivially Guessable, and Browsers Have Revoked Them

One key was the number 4. Eight eMudhra intermediate certificates could have been forged for any site until Mozilla, Google and Apple blocked them. Some software is still exposed.

Oct 21, 2026/2 min read

A brass padlock hanging on a steel chain against a tiled wall with its key below, photographed on 9 February 2023, a file photograph illustrative of security and not of eMudhra or its certificates

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Anthropic Is Pitching Congress a Bill That Could Block an AI Model Only if It Risks Killing More Than 50 People

The draft would let courts halt a release over a bioweapon, a cyberattack or a model slipping its controls, but sets a high bar. No sponsor has been named yet.

Oct 21, 2026/2 min read

The western front of the US Capitol in Washington with its dome under a clear sky, uploaded on 3 April 2007, a file photograph illustrative of Congress and not from this week's reporting on Anthropic's draft bill

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Nvidia Rival Tenstorrent Raises $1.5 Billion at a $6.2 Billion Valuation After Turning Down Takeover Talks

The RISC-V chip designer led by Jim Keller more than doubled its 2024 valuation and chose to stay independent, betting on servers that run open-weight models.

Oct 21, 2026/2 min read

A magnified photograph of the circuitry on a processor die, taken on 15 March 2022, a file photograph illustrative of microprocessor silicon and not of any Tenstorrent chip

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Google Open-Sources TorchTPU and Amazon Releases TorchNeuron, Two Moves Against Nvidia's Software Hold on AI

Two rival clouds are making PyTorch code run on their own chips with minimal edits. Both launched at the PyTorch Conference, and both come with caveats worth reading.

Oct 21, 2026/2 min read

A top-down view of a Google TPU v4 circuit board with four liquid-cooled chip packages and coloured coolant pipes, published on 4 April 2023, a file photograph of Google's TPU hardware and not of TorchTPU software or Amazon's Trainium chips

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SpaceX and Tesla Boards Form Special Committees to Weigh a Merger as SpaceX Reports a $4.4 Billion Quarter

Musk told investors the boards acted at shareholder request and that he sits on neither committee. The same call showed AI now supplies more than half of SpaceX revenue.

Oct 21, 2026/2 min read

A stainless-steel Starship prototype standing on its launch mount at SpaceX's Starbase site in Texas with the build site behind it, photographed on 16 January 2021, a file photograph of SpaceX hardware and not from this week's earnings call

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Salesforce Agrees to Buy Braze for $5.66 Billion in Cash, Paying $47.50 a Share

The customer software giant is paying a reported 58 percent premium for the marketing messaging platform behind Venmo and Instacart, betting that AI agents will want live customer data.

Oct 20, 2026/2 min read

Salesforce Tower rising above other buildings in the San Francisco skyline under a blue sky, photographed on 16 April 2022, a file photograph of Salesforce's headquarters tower and not from the announcement

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ESA's Euclid Telescope Finds Its First New Comet, Spotted by Software as a Streak Across Five Images

A dark-energy survey telescope has picked up a long-period comet 1.3 billion km away, and ESA says the discovery was a happy accident rather than part of the mission plan.

Oct 19, 2026/2 min read

An artist's impression of ESA's Euclid space telescope against a field of stars, released by the European Space Agency in 2023, an illustration of the spacecraft and not an image of the comet

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Webb Caught a Probable Supernova From the Early Universe Only Days After It Exploded

A survey that revisits one patch of sky every two months saw a new light appear in a galaxy about 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, hotter and brighter than local examples.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

The Chandra X-ray image of Tycho's supernova remnant, a glowing multicoloured sphere against black space, dated 29 April 2003, a file photograph illustrative of a supernova remnant and not of the distant object AT 2026abck

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Webb Maps an Exoplanet's Atmosphere as Egg-Shaped, With a Puffed-Up Evening Side Hotter Than Its Morning Edge

Astronomers used a new method on the hot Jupiter WASP-17b to read the shape of its air around the rim, finding a bigger, hotter evening limb that matches what weather models predicted.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

Mirror segments of the James Webb Space Telescope during cryogenic testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, photographed on 13 July 2010, a file photograph of the telescope's optics and not of WASP-17b or this week's data

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A Hole in a 75,000-Year-Old Shoulder Blade Points to a Wooden Spear, and Perhaps to Neanderthal Care

Cambridge-led researchers say a 15mm hole in a Neanderthal shoulder blade from Shanidar Cave was made by a thrust spear, possibly the earliest such attack known, with signs of earlier care.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

The rock outcrop and cave mouth of Shanidar Cave on Bradost Mountain in Iraqi Kurdistan, seen from the hillside, photographed on 28 November 2020, a file photograph of the site and not of the excavation or the bone