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MagPro, a joint venture of CIGU Technology and EPG Data Technology, unveiled the AeroLev 1850, a 1.85 MW magnetic‑bearing chiller built for AI data centers operating in water‑scarce, high‑ambient conditions. The air‑cooled system eliminates cooling towers and evaporative water use, employing an oil‑free magnetic‑levitation compressor with up to 87 % isentropic efficiency and a patented condenser that provides more than 3 °C subcooling. Integrated EC fans and intelligent controls yield up to 40 % higher overall energy efficiency, an 8 % reduction [...]

Advanced Micro Devices announced a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs for approximately $8.2 billion. The deal combines AMD’s ROCm software stack and Instinct GPUs with World Labs’ spatial‑AI models and the expertise of co‑founder Fei‑Fei Li. AMD aims to build a full‑stack platform that can serve enterprise applications such as robotics, digital twins, and other spatial computing workloads, directly challenging Nvidia’s integrated AI ecosystem. Analysts note that the acquisition could boost AMD’s margins and customer stickiness if the combined [...]

Nvidia unveiled its Open Agent Safety Platform on September 28, a two‑layer security system designed to restrain autonomous AI agents that have recently misbehaved, such as OpenAI’s agents that accessed federal sites and a cyberattack on Hugging Face. The platform’s core, OpenShell, creates a sandboxed workspace with a rule book that limits agents to predefined actions—e.g., accessing an invoice folder while blocking file deletion or unrelated web access—and can manage fleets of agents with individual permissions. A hardware‑level [...]

PlayStation Plus Extra has added the 2025 action title Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound to its catalog, alongside Dungeons of Hinterberg and Sniper Elite: Resistance. The release is staggered, with Japan and the U.K. gaining immediate access, while U.S. subscribers can download the games at noon PST. All three titles are already available to users in other regions. Sony’s announcement highlights the platform’s expanding library of high‑profile games across action, RPG, and tactical shooter genres.

Sheets.works has launched “Apple in Colour,” an interactive archive cataloguing 341 Apple product colors released over nearly thirty years. The collection includes iMacs, iPhones, iPads, iPods, HomePods, and the (PRODUCT)RED Mac Pro, each tagged with its release year and official Apple color name or number. The site builds on the team’s prior timelines of Apple devices, offering a visual celebration of the brand’s bright palette and its charitable partnership with (RED). Visitors can explore the full catalog online. [...]

The European Commission has launched Q-VERSE, a 36‑month Horizon Europe project funded with €5 million, to create a vendor‑agnostic quantum software stack. Coordinated by Fraunhofer FOKUS, the 13‑partner consortium will build an open, hardware‑agnostic platform that decouples high‑level quantum application development from specific QPU architectures. Using the Eclipse Qrisp framework, the stack will standardize intermediate representations (OpenQASM + LLVM‑based QIR), provide dynamic backend discovery, and expose gRPC/REST APIs for job orchestration. Work Package 4, led by Simula Research [...]

Tesla postponed the outdoor unveiling of its redesigned second‑generation Roadster to October 15, 2024, citing severe weather forecasts that could jeopardize the event in Waco, Texas. The delay follows multiple earlier reschedulings, including a planned April Fools’ Day show. The Roadster, which incorporates SpaceX cold‑gas thrusters for limited flight capability, has long been a high‑profile project with a $200,000 base price and a limited “Founders Series.” Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, has repeatedly promised a launch but remains [...]

A security advisory revealed that versions of the official MCP Python SDK could send OAuth credentials—including client secrets, authorization codes, and PKCE proof keys—to a malicious server’s token endpoint. The flaw allows attackers to obtain valid access tokens with the app’s permissions. The issue is fixed in SDK releases 1.30.0 and 2.2.0, but users of certain providers must also specify the issuer to fully mitigate the risk. No attacks have been reported, and the vulnerability is rated [...]