Amazon Buys the Output of a Nuclear Plant That Has Not Been Built
The site is a few miles from Terre Haute, Indiana, on the grounds of a coal plant that has been demolished. What is planned there is 960 megawatts of nuclear…
Nvidia Simulates a Quantum Computer Too Large to Build
The machine hall at Forschungszentrum Jülich, west of Cologne, holds Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, a system called JUPITER built around 5,884 nodes of Nvidia’s Grace Hopper superchips. On October 19…
Apple Schedules a Mac Event Around a Screen It Long Resisted
The invitation went out on October 19 for an event called “Pro and Tell,” to be held in Los Angeles on October 28. It is the third Apple product launch…
Blackstone Closes an $8.7 Billion Energy Fund While Others Wait
Blackstone told investors on October 19 that its fifth energy transition fund had closed at 8.7 billion dollars, hitting its hard cap and finishing more than 50 percent above the…
Tenstorrent Raises $1.5 Billion and Chooses Independence Over a Buyer
The offer came twice this year, once from Intel and once from Qualcomm, according to people familiar with the matter. On October 19 Tenstorrent answered both with a financing: a…
Amazon Pays for the Racks Before the Power Arrives
The email arrived in August, according to a report in Business Insider on October 19, and it described a process with an unremarkable name: early rack receipt. Under the arrangement,…
The NYSE Starts Selling Options Before Breakfast
At 7:30 on Monday morning, NYSE American began accepting orders for options on the S&P 500’s most traded fund, on Apple, on Nvidia and on a short list of other…
A Security Update That Stops the Mail
The first reports came from administrators who had done what they were told to do. They installed the October security updates for Windows Server on October 13, the monthly patch…
A Router Bug That Needs No Password and Has No Patch
The demonstration took place on a stage in Paris, against a home gateway in the room, and it began with a laptop that did not know the Wi-Fi password. Within…
A Stolen Key, 173 Microsoft Tenants, and a Backup Service Switched Off
The sign-ins came from a single hosting address, 144.172.64.128, and moved through customer tenants in the order their identifiers sort, seconds apart. No password was typed. No multifactor prompt appeared.…
