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Growing numbers of satellites and debris in low-Earth orbit are prompting SpaceX and other operators to repeatedly reposition spacecraft to avoid collisions. The increasing density of objects, ranging from active satellites to defunct hardware and fragments, is straining existing traffic-management practices.
Artist and musician Laurie Anderson has been chosen to contribute the next manuscript to Katie Paterson's Future Library project, joining previous participants such as Margaret Atwood, Han Kang and Ocean Vuong. Her submission will be stored unread in a dedicated room at Oslo's Deichman Bjørvika library until 2114, when it will finally be printed on paper made from a forest of spruce trees planted specifically for the project in 2014.
Apple's long-rumored Health app revamp, internally known as Project Mulberry, missed its expected debut in iOS 26.4 and again at WWDC27. Speculation now points to a possible unveiling alongside the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 next month, given Apple's history of introducing health features outside its June keynote.
Aptera has entered a $44 million agreement with Launch Technologies to handle production of its solar-powered electric vehicle. As part of the arrangement, Launch is becoming an early investor in Aptera and receiving stock warrants, giving it a financial stake in the company's success while providing Aptera access to volume discounts and mass-production capacity.
A software engineer describes how LLM coding assistants perform well on new, small projects but degrade sharply on older codebases burdened with technical debt and inconsistent naming conventions. The core problem, he argues, isn't the AI model itself but that legacy systems lack a clear, shared vocabulary for concepts, forcing the model to guess and often introduce duplicate or wrong abstractions. He proposes incrementally building clarity into codebases—using domain-driven design principles—so AI agents have unambiguous context to work from.
The vLLM project released version 0.28.0, combining 584 commits from 270 contributors. The update centers on deep performance work for Kimi-K3, including new decode context parallelism, fused kernels, memory-saving expert sharding, and ROCm support, alongside DeepSeek V4 improvements such as end-to-end sparse MLA and AMD Quark NVFP4 support.
Rockstar Games released a 26-minute gameplay preview of Grand Theft Auto VI, ahead of its November 19th launch, drawing nearly 10 million YouTube views in a day. The footage also aired on Netflix, where traffic was so heavy some viewers hit error messages, and Twitch reported bandwidth strain from fans reacting to the clip. Sensor Tower estimates the game already has roughly 4.6 million preorders.
Sharge has released the Shargeek 300, a metal unibody power bank with a 24,000mAh battery that outputs up to 300W, enough to charge two laptops and a phone simultaneously. It features a translucent housing with RGB lighting, a 1.9-inch display showing real-time charging data via its Sentinel battery management system, and is currently priced at $199 through a launch deal on Amazon.
Alt-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was taken into custody by ICE on Thursday and has now been deported to the United Kingdom, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed. Yiannopoulos, a British citizen, entered the US legally in 2019 but overstayed his visa and skipped an immigration court hearing, prompting a final removal order issued on July 22.
The report clarifies that caches are temporary storage used by browsers and apps to avoid re-downloading or recreating data like images, playlists and thumbnails. It notes there is no single universal cache on a device, since browsers, individual apps and the system each maintain separate caches for different purposes.
The Debian Project has voted to allow developers to use generative AI tools when producing contributions to the project, provided the resulting work meets Debian's existing standards. The decision clarifies that contributors remain fully responsible for reviewing, testing, and validating any AI-assisted code or documentation before submission, regardless of the tools used to create it.
At gamescom 2026, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told BBC News that Project Helix, the code name for Xbox's next-generation hardware, actually refers to a whole lineup of devices rather than a single console. She declined to give specifics or say whether the discless-versus-disc question applies to the entire family, only confirming that all Helix hardware will support both console and PC games and that performance will keep improving.