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On-premises computing is making a quiet but significant comeback. New figures from Hyperion Research show the market for high-performance compute servers grew nearly twenty percent in the first half of two thousand twenty six, with revenues reaching sixteen point five billion dollars. The driver, increasingly, is AI workloads that organizations prefer to run on hardware they actually own and control, rather than routing through the cloud.
Shifting gears, dozens of newly trained Santa Clauses gathered at the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro this week to mark their graduation from Brazil's Santa Claus School. Fifty-five recruits completed the program, learning everything needed to bring Christmas cheer across the country. It's a reminder that even the most human of traditions have their own training pipelines.
And on a somber note, two college students in Colorado have been found dead after going missing during a hike near the Leadville campus of Colorado Mountain College. Nineteen-year-old Kaden Matsuda and twenty-year-old Jackson Donlon left campus on October twenty-third and were reported missing three days later. Investigators say the two fell a substantial distance. A tragic reminder of how quickly outdoor conditions can turn.
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