Yandex shut its Vladimir data centre after a drone attack, the third of its sites knocked out within days. Cloud customers absorbed outages across more than 80 services, cryptobriefing reported, and the only share-price reading, a fall of nearly 4%, came after the second strike.
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Russia says a drone disrupted a data centre in eastern Moscow, after Ukrainian strikes on October 8 and 9 halted one Yandex site and hit another. The first of those losses exposed Yandex's choice to keep two of its three AI supercomputers at one site, the one that burned.
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Yandex lost one of its five data centers on Thursday after a reported Ukrainian drone strike on Sasovo in Russia's Ryazan region. Running workloads moved to its other sites, but the company warned that creating new cloud resources may be limited.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers Ukrainian drones forced Yandex to shut its Sasovo data center, one of its five major sites, knocking many Yandex Cloud services offline. For anyone hosting in Russia or Ukraine, the outage to plan for now includes losing a whole building and the hardware inside it.
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buildOne report1 publisher Habr user donseo's test of 11 tokenizers found Claude Opus 5 turns Russian into 2.96 times the tokens of the same English text. Anthropic bills $5 per million input tokens in either language, so Russian on Opus 5 costs nearly three times as much to send.
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