GitHub announced a redesigned Git storage architecture at GitHub Universe that separates storage from compute and limits coordination to reference updates rather than entire pushes. Internal testing showed the system handling 5,000 concurrent agents on a single repository with 7,200 pushes per second while maintaining low-latency reads, and the rollout has migrated 99.99999% of repositories to Azure using scoped write quorums and virtual replicas on Azure Blob Storage.
github.blog
· 2026-11-06
Researchers at the Center for Astrophysics, a Harvard-Smithsonian collaboration, published the Lumina Project in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, modeling the first 2 billion years of cosmic history across a cube about 1.5 billion light-years wide. The simulation was run on Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer using roughly 15,000 of its 37,000 GPUs, surpassing the 2022 Thesan simulation in both scale and timespan covered.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-26
Travis Knight, director of the 'Masters of the Universe' film, has voiced disappointment with how Amazon handled the movie's rollout to audiences. He suggests the studio's approach fell short regardless of whether viewers watched in theaters or at home.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-24
Two astronomy teams using the James Webb Space Telescope reported in spring 2025 that they observed a pair of 'little red dots' unlike any previously seen objects, including other little red dots found since 2023. Researchers led by Anna de Graaff at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy propose these are a new kind of object: a vast, puffed-up cloud of hydrogen gas that shines as brightly as billions of suns while concealing a supermassive black hole at its center, which they call a 'black hole star.'
wired.com
· 2026-10-24
A roughly two-minute pre-production trailer for Mass Effect: Universe, the next entry in the series teased in 2020, has leaked online following BioWare's shuttering and the game's cancellation. The footage shows an N7 veteran meeting an Asari in a bar before a mass-effect-powered gunfight breaks out, alongside glimpses of other game locations. IGN and Bloomberg's Jason Schreier have since corroborated the leak's authenticity, which first appeared via an anonymous Reddit post.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-22
A day after EA shut down BioWare and canceled its new Mass Effect project, a trailer for the game surfaced on Reddit. The footage, labeled as in-engine with pre-production assets, shows a human ex-soldier talking to an Asari character and includes a flashback battle sequence and a cameo from a character from the original trilogy, ending with the title Mass Effect: Universe. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier and IGN have both said the trailer is authentic.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-22
HBO's DC Universe series Lanterns concluded its first season with an emotional finale tying together two timelines: a 2016 storyline involving Hal Jordan and trainee John Stewart investigating a mass shooting linked to alien Manhunters in Rushville, Nebraska, and a 2026 storyline centered on Hal Jordan's murder. The review praises the show's departure from typical superhero conventions in favor of a grounded, detective-drama tone.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-19
DC Comics is launching 'Absolute Justice,' a crossover event that will bring together characters from its Absolute Universe line of titles for the first time. The event follows the individual Absolute books that have been running as a reimagined take on DC's core heroes.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-10
Researchers studying the Higgs field suggest our universe may exist in a 'false vacuum' that could one day collapse into a lower-energy state, destroying reality as we know it through an expanding bubble. New theoretical work argues quantum mechanical effects could make this catastrophic event far less likely, or at least much slower, than earlier calculations implied.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-06
Leaker Ice Universe claims the Galaxy S27 Ultra will launch in four colors: Black, Blue, Light Pink, and White. The report suggests Light Pink may replace the Deep Purple option offered on the Galaxy S26 Ultra, though exact shades and finishes were not specified.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-10-05
A theatrical re-release of Avengers: Endgame has pushed it past Avatar to become the highest-grossing film of all time, generating over $126 million worldwide in its latest run. Disney says the Marvel Cinematic Universe's 38 films have now earned more than $35 billion combined, and that Disney titles occupy seven of the top 10 highest-grossing films ever. Separately, Coyote vs. Acme topped Apple TV's rental charts in the US and Canada after its Tuesday streaming release, holding a 96% Rotten Tomatoes critics' score.
entertainment.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-04
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Collaboration has compiled the largest three-dimensional map of the universe to date, using measurements from millions of galaxies and quasars. Early analysis of the data suggests that dark energy, long assumed to be a constant force, may actually vary over cosmic time, a finding that challenges standard cosmological assumptions.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-01
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