Russian forces strike Kyiv data center and Ukrainian drone strikes target Russian data centres while Nvidia nears $6 trillion market capitalization.
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Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-12 01:12Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
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A darkened Kyiv data center stands damaged in the foreground with Ukrainian flags nearby, as a vast Nvidia logo-less semiconductor factory shines in the background under a deep blue evening sky with subtle hints of smoke rising from the data center.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A darkened Kyiv data center stands damaged in the foreground with Ukrainian flags nearby, as a vast Nvidia logo-less semiconductor factory shines in the background under a deep blue evening sky with subtle hints of smoke rising from the data center. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
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Yandex Vladimir data center fully shut down following drone attack
Outage took the company's core Russian hosting zone offline 11 October 2026, with conflicting accounts of the cause published the same day.
By Kenji Mori · 1hYandex’s Vladimir data centre was fully shut down on 11 October 2026 after a drone attack, disrupting both internal systems and user-facing applications.
The outage took the company’s entire ru-central1-a operating zone completely offline. Russian state news agency TASS confirmed the facility had been fully stopped.
Yandex issued a statement the same day attributing the service failure to a fire at an unrelated data centre in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast. That statement did not reference a drone attack.
Also on 11 October, the Russian Ministry of Defence announced it had struck a data centre in Odesa, Ukraine. The ministry claimed this Tenet facility was used by the Ukrainian military for intelligence collection and processing. Two separate international outlets carried that claim.
No public account has established any link between the strike reported in Ukraine and the outage inside Russia. No further status updates for the Vladimir facility had been published at time of filing.
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