DARPA plans 30-year endurance nuclear waste batteries to power next-gen drones, says report — project SYMPHONEE aims to harvest Strontium-90 to power persistent military drones
 DARPA plans 30-year endurance nuclear waste batteries to power next-gen drones, says report — project SYMPHONEE aims to harvest Strontium-90 to power persistent military drones

A report suggests that upcoming nuclear waste-powered radiovoltaic batteries could last as long as 30 years and power next-gen drones.

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Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city’s reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria in Cheyenne’s water system

Fill-and-flush is a commissioning step whereby crews fill a cooling loop’s piping with water and flush it to clear debris before the system is run.

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Companies join hands to collectively dunk on PlayStation’s all-digital future — Domino’s pizza, KFC, and GameSir all threaten an end to physical production

Companies on social media are coming together to mock Sony’s decision of ceasing production of physical discs for PlayStation games. These brands are shifting to a digital-only model in an even more absurd manner.

Blackstone-owned QTS abandons planned world’s largest data center campus after years of lawsuits — 2,100-acre Virginia Digital Gateway project dies over a newspaper-notice technicality

Blackstone-owned QTS has withdrawn its final appeal for Virginia’s 22-million-square-foot Digital Gateway campus, ending the massive data center project.

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SK hynix, Samsung, Micron among semiconductor industry group lobbying against government intervention on domestic memory chip supply — says move would worsen situation, suggests tax deductions on consumer electronics instead
 SK hynix, Samsung, Micron among semiconductor industry group lobbying against government intervention on domestic memory chip supply — says move would worsen situation, suggests tax deductions on consumer electronics instead

A lawmaker suggested to the administration that it should prioritize American manufacturers when it comes to memory chip supplies, but the SEMI industry group is pushing back against this. It says that doing so would only extend the memory chip shortages.

Intel 18A wafer-to-wafer yield issues fixed, report claims — says production up to 15,000 wafers per month at both sites

Intel reportedly solves one of the key issues that plagued its 18A process technology, but others may still be there.

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Scientists have created a 3D-printed remote-controlled cyborg cockroach equipped with IR cameras — living insects fitted with flexible ‘diving suit’ can survive and move underwater for three hours

Singaporean scientists outfitted remote-controlled cockroaches with scuba suits in a bid to use them in rescue operations and explore extreme environments like Mars.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp claims AI companies are stealing customers’ data while charging them for unproductive tokens — says ‘livid’ businesses ‘are paying for tokens that create no value’

Palantir CEO Alex Karp boldly states in an interview that claims AI companies are stealing customer’s data while charging them for unproductive services.

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Nvidia offers to take a cut of AI cloud revenue on top of hardware sales in new optional financing vehicle — trades tokens for revenue cut

Nvidia has announced a new business model under which it’ll be able to double-dip for revenue on the same silicon.

U.S. PC shipments drop 7%, market isn’t expected to bounce back until 2029 — price hikes and component shortages take hold as PC market declines, Omdia report suggests

New data suggests PC shipments are already down in 2026 and are likely to get worse in the latter half of the year, but that could be setting the stage for a resurgence in the years to come.