Wary of Artemis IV timeline, NASA is changing lunar spacesuit design
Ars Technica 2 days ago 47
NASA has changed the design for its early Artemis lunar spacesuit missions, opting for a simpler suit variant with Axiom Space.
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Meet Switchyard: A Rust Proxy and Library That Routes and Translates LLM Traffic Across OpenAI and Anthropic APIs
MarkTechPost 2 days ago 14
NVIDIA released Switchyard, a Rust proxy and library that decodes inbound LLM requests, routes them to a selected upstream backend, and translates requests and streaming responses between OpenAI and Anthropic formats. The server exposes routing-overhead timing via switchyard_routing_overhead_ms in Prometheus buckets starting at 0.1 ms. Switchyard is provided as pre-alpha/experimental and explicitly not for production, changing deployments by enabling provider-neutral agent APIs while delaying production adoption until v1.0.
Storage leaders target AI’s unstructured data challenge
SiliconANGLE 2 days ago 46 ● 2 sources
Storage companies are building products and integrations to make enterprise unstructured data usable for AI workflows, including governance, orchestration, and faster access for inference. More than 80% of enterprise data is unstructured, according to estimates cited in the article. As a result, organizations are shifting toward preparing data for AI training and audits and designing infrastructure (including key-value cache tiers and unified namespaces) to move and serve that data at scale.
Engineering at scale: The blueprint for building high-volume scoring engines featuring Saurabh Kumar
Tech Funding News 2 days ago 48
Walmart Global Tech engineer Saurabh Kumar redesigned a high-volume scoring system to remove a monolithic bottleneck. The update cut P99 latency by over 50%. It decoupled scoring into its own microservice and used Java fine-grained parallelism to score multiple items at once, plus it later enabled faster ML deployments and a rebuilt A/B testing platform.
OnZero, a Viennese Company, Will Heat 70,000 Helsinki Homes With AI Waste Heat
Trending Topics 2 days ago 27
OnZero Finland Oy signed an agreement with Helsinki utility Helen Ltd to deliver AI computing waste heat into Helsinki’s district heating network. The facility is expected to supply up to 525,000 MWh of heat per year, enough for roughly 70,000 apartments, with commissioning scheduled for next year. OnZero will use liquid cooling designed to recover up to 99% of generated heat and Helen will reduce combustion-based heat by replacing gas with recovered heat.
Is this the future of America?
The Verge 2 days ago 49
Loudoun County, Virginia, built its economic recovery strategy around attracting data centers after earlier tech booms left behind vacant infrastructure, and it has since become highly visible as “Data Center Alley.” In 2024, data center tax revenue exceeded the county’s operational budget by $35 million. As generative-AI demand expands the US buildout from existing 3,000 operating centers and 1,500 under development, Loudoun and other communities are seeing louder opposition and more political pushback against further expansion.