OpenAI News
Introducing IndQA
OpenAI introduces IndQA, a new benchmark for evaluating AI systems in Indian languages. Built with domain experts, IndQA tests cultural understanding and reasoning across 12 languages and 10 knowledge areas.
Monday, 3 November 2025
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Major compute price reduction on Neon
Databases are often one of the biggest infrastructure expenses for any company. From day one, Neon’s mission has been to make databases radically more efficient through separation of storage and compute, allowing instant autoscaling and better unit economics. Now, with Neon runni...
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Global weather data from flying airplanes
Is it possible to derive global weather data from airplanes telemetry?
Wiz Research
Introducing Wiz ASM: Context-Driven Attack Surface Management
Wiz launches Attack Surface Scanner to bring context, ownership, and prioritization to every exposure, anywhere.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Redirects and rewrites now available in Observability
redirects external rewrites Improved observability intoandis now available to all Vercel customers. External rewrites forward requests to APIs or websites outside your Vercel project, effectively allowing Vercel to function as a reverse proxy or standalone CDN. Customers on all plans get new views…
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Stilsat-1: A Russian-owned and Chinese-built satellite watching Ukraine (part 1)
A satellite, ostensibly produced by a Russian company, has been providing the Russian military with high-resolution images to support its war in Ukraine. Bart Hendrickx examines evidence that indicates the satellite, or satellites, were actually built and launched by China.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The (possibly) great lunar lander race
Discussion about delays in the development of the lunar lander version of SpaceX's Starship came to a head two weeks ago when NASA's acting administrator announced he would open up that contract for competition. Jeff Foust reports on that debate and the potential competition to return humans to the…
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Live, it's the Big Bird! The HEXAGON satellite and near-real-time reconnaissance
In 1970, one company proposed to modify the HEXAGON reconnaissance satellite to include the ability perform near-real-time reconnaissance. Dwayne Day discusses that proposal that led, a decade later, to including such a capability on those satellites.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Above us, always: Chronicling humanity's home in space, in real time
Sunday marked the 25 years since the arrival of the first long-duration crews on the International Space Station, beginning a streak of continuous occupation. Emily Carney talks to the creators of a new website that chronicles the day-to-day history of the station.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Why Mars is America's next strategic imperative
The Moon has been at the center of many discussions about American space policy and competitiveness. Alexander Salter argues that the focus of a long-term strategy should instead be on Mars.
OpenAI News
AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership
OpenAI and AWS have entered a multi-year, $38 billion partnership to scale advanced AI workloads. AWS will provide world-class infrastructure and compute capacity to power OpenAI’s next generation of models.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Faster root cause for slow traces with ClickStack Event Deltas
Read how ClickStack's improved Event Deltas make it effortless to pinpoint the root causes of performance outliers in observability data - turning complex trace analysis into instant, actionable insight.
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
Unveiling ESP's New Grants Program
Over the past few years, the Ethereum ecosystem has grown in depth, diversity, and maturity. Builders and communities worldwide have pushed the boundaries of what’s possible, creating new tools, protocols, and public goods that strengthen the network as a whole. As the ecosystem grows, our approach…