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Yandex confirms service outage as users lose access to cloud files
Russian cloud services provider Yandex announced that drone attacks damaged three of its data centers, forcing it to shut down two facilities and partially disable a third.
Yandex customers are experiencing service outages, some of them reporting inability to access files stored on the company’s cloud infrastructure.
The impacted data centers are in Sasovo (hit on October 8), Kaluga (hit on October 9), and Vladimir (attacked on October 11). The Sasovo and Vladimir facilities stopped operating completely, while the Kaluga facility’s operations are degraded.
Intensive breathwork reduces brain blood flow and alters neural communication
Intensive breathing exercises can reduce blood flow to the brain by up to 45% and alter communication between brain networks, according to a new brain-imaging study. Participants reported experiences resembling some effects of psychedelic drugs, including altered perception, vivid mental imagery, a sense of unity and changes in self-experience. The researchers, presenting the work at the ECNP Congress in Munich, say changes in brain communication, rather than reduced blood flow alone, appear to be key to the altered state.
The study involved 30 healthy, experienced breathwork practitioners who performed high-ventilation breathwork during MRI scanning. Participants reported strong altered states of consciousness, describing a predominantly oceanic state – in other words, a deep feeling of connection to the universe — resembling that of a moderate to high dose of LSD or psilocybin, albeit with less pronounced visual effects. Brain imaging showed that global grey-matter cerebral blood flow fell by around 45% during the session, on average from 16.24 to 9.81 ml/100g/min. Those who reported stronger altered states also showed greater changes in the brain’s default mode network, which is involved in self-reflection and self-related thinking.
The researchers suggest that the intensity of the experience is not simply explained by reduced blood flow. Instead, the experience might track more closely with changes in communication within the default mode network, a brain system linked to self-reflection and self-related thought.
AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Are we watching the birth of “unkillable” AI worms? 🤖🐛
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team recently published a study titled “”
Instead of focusing on million-dollar GPU clusters, researchers tested whether small AI models could build a decentralized botnet out of ordinary, insecure consumer devices.
🚨 The Experiment: “Digital Slime Mold”
* The Setup: Researchers bought 15 off-brand, $55 Android TV boxes and linked them over unauthenticated debug ports.
* The Result: They sharded a 26-billion parameter model (‘Gemma4-26B-A4B‘) across the devices. The model figured out how to compile its own inference stack and run across all 15 TVs at 0.39 tokens per second.
* Autonomous Setup: Smaller models like ‘Qwen3.5-9B‘ compiled inference servers across 8 out of 9 novel hardware types completely on their own, while models like ‘GLM-5.2‘ demonstrated full end-to-end replication steps.
Scientists Just Discovered That The Brain Makes Three Copies Of Every New Memory You Make
This new study suggests that how and when specific copies of memories are activated can have a huge impact on how we experience those memories, and how they change over time.
“The challenge the brain faces with memory is quite impressive,” Professor Donato stated in the press release. “On one hand, it must remember what happened in the past, to help us make sense of the world we live in. On the other, it needs to adapt to changes happening all around us, and so must our memories, to help us make appropriate choices for our future.”
If these findings also apply to humans, it could help researchers develop treatments for specific memory-related disorders like PTSD or dementia by targeting different neuron groups.
UAE unveils lander for bold 7-asteroid mission set to launch in 2028 (photos)
“We don’t know what we’re going to find — that’s exploration,” Tsoutsanis told reporters. “We’re really excited.”
According to the mission plan, the MBR Explorer will spend roughly seven months studying 269 Justitia from orbit. Beginning at an altitude of 155 miles (250 km), the spacecraft will gradually lower its path before releasing the lander. The smaller probe will then head toward the asteroid’s surface, a descent that should take two to three hours depending on 269 Justitia’s precise gravity, which remains unknown.
Although TII describes the mission ending with a landing on the surface of 269 Justitia, the engineering details suggest a more violent endgame. Cruising toward the asteroid’s surface at 15 to 27 meters per second (34 to 60 mph) with no meaningful way to slow down, the probe will function less like a traditional lander and more like a planned impactor.