Satlyt, a startup co-founded by former Google and SpaceX engineer Rama Afullo, has raised an $8 million seed round to develop software that lets multiple satellites share AI computing workloads in orbit. Unlike rivals such as SpaceX, Google and Starcloud, Satlyt does not build its own spacecraft; instead it aims to supply software that runs across other companies' satellites. The company's software is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX rocket alongside Google's first Project Suncatcher prototype.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-01
Alphabet is sending its tensor processing units to space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of the Transporter-18 mission launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The flight carries Planet Labs satellites, including a solar-powered prototype fitted with Google's AI chips, marking the first in-orbit test of Google's Project Suncatcher initiative first announced in November 2025.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-01
Casio has launched the 'Blue Rose Project,' a three-watch G-Shock collection built around blue sapphire crystal, led by the $80,000 MRG-D5000 with a case and bezel carved entirely from sapphire. Only 20 units of the flagship will be produced, alongside a $9,500 MRG-B5000SA-2 and an $850 GMW-B5000SB-1A. Casio says the project took eight years to complete, building on sapphire concept watches first shown in 2017 that could not pass the brand's durability tests.
wired.com
· 2026-10-01
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Project Meridian during a 'State of the Force' address, tapping Elon Musk, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to co-lead a study on future warfare technology under CTO Emil Michael. The team has 120 days to recommend technologies for the military to develop, test, and field, and Hegseth also unveiled a new Autonomous Warfare Command to accelerate drone and autonomous systems deployment.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-30
The Department of Defense has launched Project Meridian, an initiative described by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a study of future battlefields meant to identify weapons and technologies the military will need and propose ways to develop and field them. The effort will be led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich, none of whom have served in the US military.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-30
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Project Meridian, a 120-day Pentagon initiative to identify future warfare capabilities and technologies. Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich will serve as co-leads under Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael, drawing on experts from government, industry, academia and policy circles. Hegseth said the project aims to determine which military domains and capabilities the U.S. must master, not to set new strategy or policy.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-30
Anthropic reports that GLM-5.3, a new model from China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai), can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits similar to Anthropic's own Claude Mythos Preview. Anthropic says simple jailbreak techniques bypassed GLM-5.3's safeguards between 64% and 100% of the time in simulated tests, whereas the same attacks failed against safeguarded Claude models. NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation separately assessed GLM-5.3 as the most cyber-capable open-weight model released so far, trailing the US frontier by about four months.
anthropic.com
· 2026-09-29
Following Valve's official Arm64 SteamOS release for its Steam Frame headset, open-source developers have expanded the Armada project to bring a similar Linux-based Steam experience to Android gaming handhelds. The system combines the Linux kernel, Valve's Arm64 Steam build, the FEX emulator, and Proton to run Windows x86 games on Arm hardware, with support already available for devices from Ayaneo, Ayn, Retroid and Konkr.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-28
A site operator configured their personal blog to be accessible via a .onion address, making it reachable only through the Tor network. The setup uses Tor's hidden service feature to route traffic through an nginx server listening locally, encrypted and relayed by the Tor network itself, with a separate build of the static site using the onion address as its base URL.
david.alvarezrosa.com
· 2026-09-27
A commentary piece challenges Nikole Hannah-Jones's viral essay about sending her daughter to a high-poverty, majority-black public school in New York City. It contends the school actually received unusually high per-pupil funding of $52,349 and a 1:10 faculty-student ratio, and cites unsupervised lunchroom fighting, fabricated homework, and inflated grades that Hannah-Jones allegedly overlooked.
educationprogress.org
· 2026-09-26
Jevmem is a new npm package that captures decisions, constraints, bugs and todos discussed during AI coding sessions and writes them to a local JEVMEM.md file. Changed decisions are marked as superseded rather than erased, and the relevant entries are re-fed into the assistant's context in later sessions. It integrates automatically with Claude Code via hooks, while Cursor and Codex require agent-initiated calls through MCP or rule files.
github.com
· 2026-09-25
Google plans to send a refrigerator-sized test satellite called MWP aboard a SpaceX Transporter 18 rideshare flight on Oct. 1, built in partnership with satellite imaging company Planet. The solar-powered craft is part of Google's Project Suncatcher initiative and is meant to test whether AI chips, including TPUs, can withstand launch and operate in orbit, rather than perform substantial computing tasks.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-25
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