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'Every solar plant is a latent data center': US startup plans to turn wasted solar energy into GPU-ready DCs in weeks, not years, without major water use

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Rune wants unused solar electricity powering GPUs instead of going to waste RELIC connects computing equipment directly to functioning solar generation sites The system operates without grid connections or conventional data center construction A San Francisco company named Rune has introduced a modular compute unit built to operate directly on unused solar power. Called RELIC, the equipment attaches to functioning solar installations without needing any connection to the electrical grid or new construction work. The launch came alongside a $40 million Series A financing round for Rune, lifting the firm's overall capital raised to $53.5 million total. Skipping the grid bottleneck Solar facilities routinely waste as much as 20% of the electricity they generate, adding up to more than 50 TWh yearly nationwide. RELIC pulls that idle current straight from the source, avoiding metering charges, uti...

How to watch UFC 331: Van vs Pantoja 2 live streams, no PPV, start time, full card

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UFC 331: Saturday, September 19 Main Card time: 9pm ET / 6pm ET / 2am BST (Sun) / 11am AEST (Sun) Watch on Paramount Plus for $8.99 or for $1 with Walmart+ 30-day trial (US only) Overseas? Use Surfshark to watch your US services from anywhere Tonight's UFC 331 headline bout is a classic case of revenge or repeat as Joshua Van puts the UFC flyweight title he won against Alexandre Pantoja on the line at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The Fearless won the belt in controversial fashion in December 2025 and the Cannibal is determined to right the wrong he has felt ever since. Van's victory at UFC 323 came after Pantjoa suffered a dislocated elbow 26 seconds into the original fight when the former fell and landed on the latter. The Brazilian has felt ignored by Dana White ever since, despite having championship victories against Brandon Moreno, Brandon Royval, Steve Erceg, Kai Asakura, ...

China is readying the world's first giant submarine UAV carrier — built with a 1115ft dock, the unnamed mothership could be longer (and bigger) than WW2 light aircraft carriers and carry 148ft underwater drones

Satellite imagery shows China building a roughly ~200m ship in Shanghai that analysts say is a mothership for submarine-sized drones It pairs a bottom-opening well-deck and 12-arm cradle with an internal hangar that experts estimate holds four 115- to 148ft XXLUUVs While the ship itself is shorter than an Essex-class carrier, its dock clocks in at about 1,115ft China appears to be building a type of ship no navy is publicly known to operate: a large surface vessel designed to carry, launch, and recover uncrewed submarines the size of conventional crewed boats The hull was first posted on September 13 2026 by Japanese open-source analyst KAROTASU and assessed two days later by H I Sutton at Naval News . It currently sits at a dock at the Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai, and Beijing has yet to formally acknowledge its existence, so it has no name, list of capabilities, or the military branch ...

New Android malware can deploy AI to automate device control — and it can even bring itself back from the dead

Zimperium zLabs discovered RedHat , a Chinese‑origin Android banking trojan with AI assistant AI interprets screen layouts in real‑time, enabling credential theft and bypassing app redesigns Distributed via third‑party stores, social media, malvertising, and SMS; persistence blocks uninstall attempts There is an Android malware out there that comes with an AI assistant that tells it what to do. The assistant seems to be independent of the malware’s operator, allowing the tool to work without requiring the operators to be present in real-time. The malware in question is called RedHat. It was discovered by security researchers Zimperium zLabs, who believe it is of Chinese origin. It is currently being distributed via third-party app stores, social media, malvertising, and SMS spam, and requires Android’s Accessibility permissions to work. The malware itself is a typical banking trojan - it creates...

Seagate finds 'AI is increasing the value of data' but warns that 43% of businesses lack proper data storage infrastructure — 99% expect AI storage (and storage costs) to explode

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Seagate study finds 99% of firms expect AI to increase their storage requirements within three years Only 38% of organizations consider themselves fully prepared for future demands Storage infrastructure ranks among the biggest obstacles facing AI deployment New data from Seagate has claimed AI is increasing the business importance of stored information while exposing weaknesses in infrastructure readiness. The company's research found 99% of respondents expect AI workloads to increase their storage requirements in the next three years. Yet only 38% describe their organizations as completely prepared, while 43% identify storage infrastructure among the leading obstacles to wider AI deployment. AI is raising the stakes for storage planning The survey gathered responses from more than 2,700 technology decision-makers and found that 86% reported moderate or significant returns from AI investmen...

Nuri rocket launch heralds South Korea’s first microsatellite constallation — and shows it might have the technology to launch its own Starlink

The Nuri rocket is set to deploy 15 satellites following a planned launch on October 7 2026 Its payload consists its first five disaster response NEONSAT units, and 10 CubeSats The NEONSAT satellites will form the first half of a 10-strong microsatellite constellation, potentially laying the groundwork for a Starlink-style network for the country and beyond South Korea is preparing for the fifth launch of its Nuri rocket, which will have a 15-strong payload of NEONSATs and CubeSats, marking the first time the nation has deployed a microsatellite constellation. If successful, the launch could spearhead future projects that might even include a Starlink-like satellite internet service. Five NEONSATS and 10 CubeSats will be deployed by the Nuri rocket, which has a planned launch date of October 7, 2026. Once launched, the five NEONSATS will later be joined by a further five microsatellites. With the...

AMD could be working on an Nvidia DLSS 5 rival, but it'll be for next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs — and I've a feeling that may be too late

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AMD is rumored to be working on its own version of DLSS 5 A leaker says that the neural rendering tech will be launched with next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs That means we could be waiting until late 2027 or 2028 to see this debut, which might leave AMD lagging behind Nvidia considerably AMD could be working on its own take on Nvidia's DLSS 5 , and apparently this alternative attempt at neural rendering will be for its next-gen RDNA 5 graphics cards . VideoCardz spotted that a known leaker in the GPU field, Kepler L2, posted on the Anandtech forum in a discussion around RDNA 5 speculation to say that: "AMD will have their own version of 'Neural Lighting' like DLSS5 next-gen." Kepler then clarified that he didn't mean a version of Ray Reconstruction, but a take on DLSS 5 (neural rendering), and that next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs would be required because "this stuff is pretty heavy...