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Google has disclosed a six percent stake in SpaceX valued at ninety-four point one billion dollars, making it one of the most significant cross-sector investments in recent memory. It raises real questions about how two of the world's most powerful technology companies are quietly binding their futures together.
Meanwhile, the surveillance story that deserves more attention: a new report alleges Iran used mobile roaming infrastructure and advertising technology to track United States military personnel in the Gulf region. It's a stark reminder that the same ad-tech ecosystem built to sell you running shoes can, in the wrong hands, become an intelligence tool.
And from the world of storage hardware, WEKA has launched a new appliance that claims to pack one thousand petabytes into a single fifty-six unit rack, using eighteen hundred high-density Micron drives alongside a compression technique that has been around for decades. It's a case of old math meeting new hardware, and the numbers, if they hold up in practice, are genuinely remarkable.
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