Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, shared insights into the Nobel Prize awarded to his supervisor, Francis Halzen, for work on the IceCube neutrino detector. The detector uses sensors embedded in Antarctic ice to observe elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos, which are produced by natural processes on Earth and in living organisms. Díaz Vélez emphasized the ongoing nature of this research despite the recent accolade.
wired.com
· 2026-10-08
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics to Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for his role in building the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica and detecting high-energy neutrinos originating beyond our galaxy. Halzen, speaking by phone from Italy at a Stockholm news conference, said he was surprised by the honor and credited the many researchers who joined his project.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-06
Research firm Aterio says Oracle's Project Lighthouse datacenter in Port Washington, Wisconsin, developed with Vantage, may miss its planned second-half 2027 opening because American Transmission Company still needs Public Service Commission approval to build the site's grid connection. Aterio also noted Oracle recently sent a force majeure notice to a Blue Owl Capital subsidiary over its Project Jupiter campus in New Mexico, seeking to defer payments if that site isn't ready on time, though Oracle maintains Jupiter remains on schedule.
theregister.com
· 2026-10-02
In May 2003, UW-Madison discovered its public NTP time server was being hit by a massive, sustained flood of hundreds of thousands of packets per second from hundreds of thousands of hosts worldwide. Investigation revealed this wasn't a DDoS attack but a design flaw in a popular vendor's cheap consumer routers, which mistakenly hardcoded UW-Madison's server as a time source and queried it far too aggressively.
pages.cs.wisc.edu
· 2026-09-13
A Denny's franchisee that operated multiple restaurants across Minnesota and Wisconsin abruptly closed all of its locations earlier this month. The closures were confirmed by Fast Company, though the exact number of affected stores and reasons for the shutdown were not fully detailed.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-09
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