Japan's earthquake alert announced a magnitude 9.9 for Hokkaido to central Japan. The real quake was an M6.9 near Kamchatka, a safeguard added in 2020 wasn't working, and Docomo phones never got the alert at all.
Mitsui Fudosan and partners plan a data center of up to 20 MW in a disused Kobe tunnel that stays 15 to 20°C. What reuse saves, a 2007 precedent, and the open questions on water, power and heat.
Some AI GPUs are now far weaker at the FP64 math science needs. A Shibaura Institute of Technology method rebuilds it from low-precision units; NVIDIA lists up to 175 TFLOPS on a B200. How it works, and its limits.
Meta's 7,000 km US-France cable Petal targets 1 petabit per second in 2029, built by NEC and Sumitomo. Labs reach 19 cores, so why two? Repeater power.
A decryption tool built by Japan's police has restored about 20 million files for 41 companies since February 2024. It is free and used in more than 100 countries, and it still reaches only a fraction of victims.
Google and Microsoft park cold data on magnetic tape. Shipments dipped in 2025, then jumped 57% in the first quarter of 2026, and the business behind those cartridges belongs to a photo film company.
Godot has moved on Japan with a CRI Middleware partnership. Why an engine at 5% in GDC's 2026 survey gets called the third engine, why its MIT licence stops at the console door, and what Unity and Unreal actually cost.
Kioxia's XL1 module pulls flash memory into the memory hierarchy over CXL to ease the DRAM crunch in AI data centers. What it can and cannot do, and why it matters for a country that no longer makes DRAM.
AIST and Tokyo startup OptQC have switched on MoQuren, a photonic quantum computer that needs no refrigerator and no vacuum chamber. What it can do now, and how Japan's bet differs from the US and China.
A Japanese developer has built a full Sengoku strategy game that runs inside the Vim text editor. Set in 1560, it holds 41 provinces, 32 clans and 256 historical generals in one 2,371-line file.
NEC and Keio AI Center have developed a technique that turns ordinary smartphone video into a high-fidelity 3D model in as little as one minute. By pairing Gaussian splatting with its own AI, NEC cut generation time to one-tenth and taught the system to erase workers caught on camera. Commercial launch is targeted within fiscal 2027.