The Vodafone Group and Vodafone Ukraine are set to work together in building a new undersea cable in the Black Sea that will connect Europe and Asia while bypassing Russia. According to The Express , work on the Kardesa submarine cable system is projected to begin in 2027 in Bulgaria, with other countries following suit soon thereafter. It will also go through war-torn Ukraine, but only in internationally recognized safe zones. The project is expected to cost over €100

Chinese developers of Deepseek AI have released a new model that leverages its multi-modal capabilities to improve the efficiency of its handling of complex documents and large blocks of text, by converting them into images first, as per SCMP . Vision encoders were able to take large quantities of text and convert them into images, which, when accessed later, required between seven and 20 times fewer tokens, while maintaining an impressive level of accuracy.

Deepseek is the Chinese-developed AI

A CPU collector has shared some fantastically detailed new images of the landmark Intel 8008 processor. CPU Duke seriously indulged their CPU microscopy hobby over recent days, creating a detailed die-shot of an i8008 by carefully aligning and stitching 216 individual micrographs.

In a thread, CPU Duke explains that the chip under close scrutiny was kindly donated by a computer museum called the ENTER Technikwelt in Solothurn, Switzerland. The donation apparently came with a request that

Chinese memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is reportedly preparing to go public in the first quarter of 2026, with the company signing up China International Capital Corporation and CSC Financial, two state-owned banks, back in July to start the process. According to the South China Morning Post , CXMT aims to raise 20 to 40 billion Yuan (around US$2.8 to US$5.6 billion) from the offering. However, these details

This is a great chance to grab a cheap little wireless gaming mouse for a budget gaming setup, for kids, or even as an emergency backup mouse. Cherry, best known for their world-dominating range of switches, does put out a fair few peripherals, although they don't enjoy the same level of notoriety or success as the switches; they are still a steal when priced like today's deal.

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Alibaba Cloud has revealed a new GPU pooling system that slashed the number of Nvidia accelerators needed for large-scale inference by more than 80%. The system, known as Aegaeon, was presented at the 2025 SOSP conference in Korea and piloted in Alibaba’s own production environment. It allows multiple large language models to share a single GPU. By doing so, it cuts the hardware footprint for inference workloads to a fraction of what was previously required