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Google’s $920 million monthly contract with SpaceX brings orbital compute to the commercial cloud market. The deal could launch a new era of low‑latency AI services and reshape data‑center economics.

Smart TVs are covert data farms, feeding AI models with your viewing habits. Without oversight, they turn every living room into a node of the AI scraping economy.

A new branch‑free quicksort implementation outperforms both std::sort and pdqsort across typical workloads. Its simple API lets developers upgrade with minimal code changes.

Redis 8.8 introduces true arrays and an atomic rate limiter, promising up to 40% faster workloads. The changes push Redis from a cache to a core real‑time data engine.

Engineers have created a waste‑free desalination method that turns seawater into drinkable water while harvesting the extracted salt for reuse. The low‑energy, membrane‑free process could dramatically cut the environmental toll of modern desalination.

A tiny air leak forced ISS crews to evacuate and repair, halting experiments and testing the station’s emergency protocols. The swift fix, aided by on‑board 3‑D printing, highlights both the fragility and growing self‑reliance of orbital habitats.

Cloudflare's acquisition of VoidZero signals a strategic bet on developer experience as the next competitive edge in the serverless platform wars. The move brings Vite's creator Evan You and his team in-house to tighten the loop between local development and edge deployment.