What went right this week: the ‘alternative Nobel prize’, plus more

Positive News

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Positive News • Gavin Haines • October 2, 2026

Four individuals and organizations have received the Right Livelihood Award, often called the "alternative Nobel prize," for resisting authoritarianism, patriarchal violence, and unchecked AI development. All recipients are women or female-led groups. Eritrean computer scientist Timnit Gebru was recognized for challenging concentrated power in artificial intelligence. Pakistani lawyer Jalila Haider was commended for opposing ethnic, state, and patriarchal persecution of her Hazara community. The Rural Women’s Assembly empowers African women to defend land and bodily autonomy against corporate dispossession, while the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association works to safeguard democracy against autocratic crackdowns. Ole von Uexkull, executive director of Right Livelihood, stated that these winners are rewriting rules assumed to belong only to autocrats and Silicon Valley leaders.

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‘I can breathe again’. Readers share their experiences of a more balanced media diet

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Positive News • Sarah LaBrecque • October 9, 2026

To mark World Mental Health Day on 10 October, Positive News gathered reflections from readers about how their news diet affects their feelings. Many describe the overwhelming negativity of mainstream media as creating despair or paralysis. Reader Kay notes that constant negative coverage batters consciousness, while Mustafa says a tsunami of negativity requires grounding. Mo, who is nearly 73, found the site by accident and now reads it first thing in the morning to cope with the world. Naava explains that without Positive News, she would feel paralysed by despair regarding the state of the world.

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Microsoft 365 slashes storage capacity for shared accounts amid industry-wide shortages

IT Hardware

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Tom’s Hardware • Jowi Morales • October 9, 2026

Microsoft has announced a significant change to its storage policy for Microsoft 365 Family, Premium, and Pro plans. The company states that these subscriptions will shift from an assigned 1TB of cloud storage per user to a shared 2TB limit for all users on the account. This adjustment means a subscription shared across six users will see its total capacity reduced by 66.6%. Microsoft noted this change will apply to renewals after May 2, 2027, unless subscribers alter their plans earlier. Some affected users may receive bonus storage when switching to this model, though specific eligibility requirements were not provided.

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Gigabyte’s latest BIOS update hints at Intel’s Raptor Lake Next Launch in 2027

IT Hardware

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Tom’s Hardware • Kunal Khullar • October 9, 2026

Gigabyte has confirmed that Intel plans to launch new processors compatible with existing LGA 1700 motherboards in early 2027. A recent BIOS update extends support for these upcoming chips across Gigabyte’s entire lineup of B760 and H610 boards, allowing owners to upgrade CPUs without replacing their motherboards. This update covers both DDR4 and DDR5 variants, a move relevant as rising memory prices affect PC building costs. However, the announcement excludes Z690, Z790, and B660 series boards despite them sharing the same socket.

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World’s first 3D-printed remote control aircraft with a jet turbine takes flight, aims for Mach 0.8 to beat world record for fastest model aircraft

IT Hardware

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Tom’s Hardware • Jhet Borja • October 10, 2026

The Kingchaser is a remote-controlled aircraft built by graduates from the University of Bath who aim to set a world speed record. The team plans to fly at Mach 0.8, which would beat the current Guinness World Record held for nine years by German pilot Neils Herbrich. The project is part of the Mach Initiative, and the team has already posted footage of their earlier flight on YouTube.

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Ukrainian drones strike largest data center in Russia, multiple parts of 1.4 million square foot campus knocked offline

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Tom’s Hardware • Oliver Haslam • October 10, 2026

Ukrainian drones have struck a massive Yandex data center in Kaluga, Russia, causing significant damage similar to a recent attack on a facility in Sasovo. Russian state media reported that multiple modules at the Kaluga site were completely removed from service following the unmanned aerial vehicle (drones) attack. The facility, located in the Grabtsevo industrial park, is designed to be Russia’s largest data center and entered service in late 2023.

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Crazed modder straps 360mm AIO radiator to laptop, cuts temps to below 40 degrees

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Tom’s Hardware • Jhet Borja • October 10, 2026

YouTube creator TrashBench modified a Metabox laptop containing an Nvidia GTX 1060 and Intel Core i7-8750H by attaching a 360mm AIO radiator, waterblocks, and a pump. The original setup caused temperatures to drop 60 degrees during stress tests, with the CPU and GPU reaching below 40 degrees after an average of 14% overclocking gain. TrashBench, known for extreme PC modifications, adapted a cut-up 360mm AIO from another project for his daughter’s gaming needs on Fortnite.

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AnyPS5 project reaches critical GPU milestone in race to enable running PS5 games natively on PC

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Tom’s Hardware • Zak Killian • October 10, 2026

The open-source AnyPS5 project has achieved 100% coverage of GPU shader instructions for the PlayStation 5’s AMD RDNA architecture. This means its decoder recognizes all 1,166 tracked instructions in both RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 sets. However, recognizing an instruction does not guarantee that the game will run correctly. The project notes that while network libraries like libSceHttp are at 95% implementation, no actual HTTP requests function in the current version.

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Russian modder slaps DLSS 5 onto Pac-Man with 4x Multipass

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Tom’s Hardware • Jhet Borja • October 10, 2026

Russian YouTuber Valery Kryzhanovsky demonstrated a modified version of the MS-DOS game Pac-Man by applying Nvidia’s DLSS 5 upscaling technology. He achieved this by running the game through the MAME emulator and injecting the graphics engine using ReShade and RenoDX. Kryzhanovsky notes that DLSS 5 was not designed for such older, flat games, yet he managed to create four different rendering modes including Natural, Default, Cinematic, and Denoise.

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New parallel gate entangles diamond qubits 10 times faster at room temperature

Quantum Technology

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Phys.org • October 1, 2026

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new method to entangle diamond qubits ten times faster than previous techniques while operating at room temperature. This breakthrough involves using a nitrogen-vacancy center, a tiny defect in diamond where a nitrogen atom sits next to a missing carbon atom. The team utilized an electron at this defect and three nearby carbon-13 nuclei to create four qubits. By applying a precisely timed sequence of controls, the electron interacted with all three nuclear qubits simultaneously in a single gate operation. This approach generated a four-qubit Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger state, a specific type of entanglement where the qubits share a combined quantum arrangement.

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