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Infrastructureresearch.meta.aiOct 22

Meta opened up Muse Spark, and it takes two Mac Studios to run it at home

Meta released Muse Spark Open on October 15, a model with 816 billion parameters, 42 billion of them active.

#meta 2 min read

Infrastructuredns.museumOct 22

There's now a museum for DNS, the internet's phone book, and it's as nerdy as it sounds

DNS is the internet's phone book, the thing that turns a name into an address, and somebody built it a museum.

#dns 2 min read

Infrastructurebipm.orgOct 22

The leap second is over, and the world's clocks may now drift up to an hour from the sky

The world's timekeepers have decided to stop adding leap seconds: Resolution 5 of the 28th General Conference on Weights and Measures says "continuous UTC will become effective on 20 May 2027," and it lets the gap between atomic time and the Earth's actual spin grow to as much as one hour.

#time 2 min read

Infrastructurenytimes.comOct 22

AI data centers now need their own special gray paint

The AI boom has reached the paint aisle.

#ai 2 min read

Infrastructurearstechnica.comOct 22

A startup drilled into an underwater volcano for electricity

Seattle startup Endurance Energy parked a generator on the seafloor next to an active underwater volcano, about 5,000 feet down, and got it to make more electricity than it used for about 8.7 seconds.

#energy 2 min read

Infrastructurehpe.comOct 21

HPE wants to send a fanless computer to the Moon

HPE plans to send a computer with no fan to the Moon's south pole, and to benchmark it once it gets there.

#space 2 min read