LockerGnome: InfrastructureDaily tech news worth retelling: the drama, the hackery, the odd builds and the people behind them.https://lockergnome.com/Meta opened up Muse Spark, and it takes two Mac Studios to run it at homehttps://lockergnome.com/meta-muse-spark-two-mac-studios/https://lockergnome.com/meta-muse-spark-two-mac-studios/Meta released Muse Spark Open on October 15, a model with 816 billion parameters, 42 billion of them active.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:19:00 GMTInfrastructuremetaaiappleThere's now a museum for DNS, the internet's phone book, and it's as nerdy as it soundshttps://lockergnome.com/dns-museum/https://lockergnome.com/dns-museum/DNS is the internet's phone book, the thing that turns a name into an address, and somebody built it a museum.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:04:00 GMTInfrastructurednsinternetmuseumsThe leap second is over, and the world's clocks may now drift up to an hour from the skyhttps://lockergnome.com/leap-second-over-clocks-drift/https://lockergnome.com/leap-second-over-clocks-drift/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.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMTInfrastructuretimestandardsAI data centers now need their own special gray painthttps://lockergnome.com/ai-data-center-gray-paint/https://lockergnome.com/ai-data-center-gray-paint/The AI boom has reached the paint aisle.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMTInfrastructureaidata-centersA startup drilled into an underwater volcano for electricityhttps://lockergnome.com/underwater-volcano-electricity/https://lockergnome.com/underwater-volcano-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.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMTInfrastructureenergyHPE wants to send a fanless computer to the Moonhttps://lockergnome.com/hpe-fanless-computer-moon/https://lockergnome.com/hpe-fanless-computer-moon/HPE plans to send a computer with no fan to the Moon's south pole, and to benchmark it once it gets there.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMTInfrastructurespacecooling