Filing: Vancouver, WA-based Powerlattice, which makes a power delivery chiplet to reduce AI compute power needs by 50% , raised $86M, after raising $31M in 2025 (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/filing-chip-startup-pow…
Best Spud Harvest in a Decade Clears the Gloom of Crops Failing from Scorching Summer https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/best-spud-harvest-in-a-decade-clears-the-gloom-of-crops-failing-from-scorching-summer/
For those Magic the Gathering box collectors out there, I'm selling some more of my collection of Play & Draft Boosters boxes that I've done art for.
The following boxes are listed over on my seller page: https://www.ebay.ie/usr/denmanrooke
Fan fiction site AO3 says it will be offline for two to four weeks after a security incident; it hosts over 18M works and has 11M registered users (Bruce Gil/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/popular-fan-fiction-site-ao3-could-b…
Gut Feeling: Staff predictions for Cowboys-Cardinals https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/gut-feeling-staff-predictions-for-cowboys-cardinals
Some Middle Eastern powers are waking up to the threat to their sovereignty posed by a US system that consistently privileges Israel’s priorities.
It is early days, but for a Gulf state leader to call for a Gulf security pact that includes Iran,
as Badr Albusaidi, Oman’s foreign minister, did this week,
is a potential Berlin Wall moment.
The implication is that the US should no longer be the security provider for the Gulf.
Iran is viewed with deep suspicion acro…
Athena apparently knows how to count. At least, she knows when I short her one treat.
Meanwhile, I upgraded my genealogy site and managed to break one of Dad’s old 8mm films during digitization. Fortunately, it broke at a splice, and I found a clever way to repair it.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.co…
Google hat einfach mal 2x3km Wald in Nord-Finnland illegal abgeholzt und den Mutterboden abgeräumt.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre
Counting Dogs And Broken Films
Athena apparently knows exactly how many treats she’s supposed to get, while my dad’s old home movies proved a little less cooperative. Between updating my genealogy site and repairing a broken 8mm film, it was a surprisingly busy quiet week.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter…