NetApp plans to buy PEAK:AIO so that ONTAP's file metadata can scale toward a design target of trillions of files. No integration timetable or benchmark has been published, so ONTAP customers are judging a promise until the upgrade path ships.
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- Insufficient
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
The National Nuclear Security Administration has approved design work on the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, where much of the infrastructure dates to the facility's first startup and some systems are near the end of their operating lives.
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- Hype gap+22
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- Confidence55
Ryan Lester and colleagues put windows in the gold cylinder that confines a National Ignition Facility shot. The escaping pulse reached tens of trillions of watts, on a par with the brightness of some red dwarf stars.
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- Insufficient
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- Confidence55
Xcimer took investment from RTX Ventures and Pacific Fusion signed an agreement with the NNSA. TechCrunch's reporting shows defense interest landing on machines that already exist, with both plant programs still running.
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- Adoption34
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives74
- Confidence55
The University of Michigan sent a faculty director and its lead engineer into a hostile Ypsilanti Township town hall on Wednesday night. Its Los Alamos partner sent a letter, and the letter put nuclear weapons research back on the record.
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- Adoption10
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives70
- Confidence58
Transition-edge sensors cooled near absolute zero measured the X-ray lines that sit inside the gamma-ray band used to identify nuclear material. Anyone who wants one also has to buy the refrigerator that keeps it cold.
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- Evidence42
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence50
Physicists at NIST used superconducting films held near absolute zero to measure X-rays from uranium, plutonium and neptunium in the band where they overlap the gamma rays used for material accounting. Existing gamma detectors can use the new reference values.
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- Adoption45
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives62
- Confidence58
The authors turn phage cocktail design from trial and error into a resistance-management calculation, where the levers a clinician controls are how broad the cocktail is and how early it lands. It is theory, and it is specific enough to argue with.
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- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
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- Confidence55
Radio polarization from Murriyang and X-ray polarization from IXPE both stay locked to the magnetic field of 1E 1547.0-5408, which is what quantum electrodynamics predicts and what no accelerator has shown.
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- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives62
- Confidence55
At 60 tesla and 0.7 kelvin, resistance oscillations in zirconium pentatelluride outlived the quantum limit. The authors read that as spin doing transport work, not riding along.
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives42
- Confidence55