A former NASA and Google engineer, a specialist in space electronics, called the idea of building space-based AI data centers (powered by GPUs/TPUs) “absolutely impractical”, arguing that AI-class electronics are fundamentally incompatible with the conditions of space.
The President of Russia has signed a decree transferring 100% of the shares of Lenfilm Studio — currently owned by the Federal Agency for State Property Management — into the ownership of St. Petersburg.
The text-to-video generation segment has reached a new milestone: Runway’s Gen-4.5 model now makes it possible to create highly realistic videos at minimal cost, challenging the industry’s long-standing leaders.
UK regulator Ofcom has fined Virgin Media £23.8 million for “serious systemic failures” during the 2022–2023 transition from PSTN to digital phone lines.
According to analyst Paul Gray, the average size of new TVs sold in Europe has now reached 65".
A study by Ampere Analysis showed that influencer content has firmly entered the mainstream: 70% of internet users in the US and the UK watch such videos at least once a week.
The Gazprom-Media holding (GPM) reported a significant increase in DDoS attacks on its digital infrastructure since November 24.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has announced the launch of Cocoon (Confidential Compute Open Network) — a decentralized confidential computing network built on the TON blockchain.
The Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Satellite Communications Company” (RSCC) has announced the largest tender in its history — an open competition for the production of four geostationary communication satellites.
Alibaba has published a technical report on its open multimodal model Qwen3-VL.
