Inland Rail Holds to Twenty-Seven

The B21 Static Fire Tape

SpaceX’s full-duration 33-engine static-fire video of Super Heavy Booster 21 at Pad 2 Starbase on 28 August 2026 — the public tape ahead of Flight 14, with Ship 41’s Massey’s burns already on the August ledger.

The Vandenberg Starlink Tape

Starlink Group 15-24 from SLC-4E — Spaceflight Now’s 80th Starlink mission of 2026 framing, shifting Sunday windows, B1088, the Pacific droneship, and the Florida-to-Starship cadence shift.

The Andøya Spectrum Tape

Isar’s Spectrum Onward and Upward webcast and released footage from Andøya on 5 September 2026 — polar European pad pictures, distinct from the breaking orbit flash.

Pickering said he made mistakes

One Nation’s Victorian leader admitted past speed, ecstasy and marijuana at a Melbourne press conference on Tuesday, a day after denying his former partner’s Australian interview. ABC and Guardian were asked to leave. Crime platform landed in the same room.

What Love Builds at Venice

Crowe's Indoor Garden Party doc, Venice Open, 99 min, Australia. Barbera: concert film + autobiographical confession. Public 11 Sep 21:00 Darsena; 12 Sep 12:00 Giardino; pass 10 Sep 14:00 Volpi. IF Magazine 23 Jul.

Clooney and Burstyn Take the Lions

Venice 83: Lifetime Golden Lions to George Clooney (opening 2 Sep, Dern laudatio) and Ellen Burstyn (7 Sep with Flesh Impact). Hosts Scarano & Maupas. Barbera. Festival 2–12 Sep 2026.

RTX Spark Ships in October

NVIDIA at IFA: RTX Spark N1X PCs ship October 2026. 20-core/6144 + 24–128 GB unified; 18-core/5120 to 32 GB laptops first. OEMs Acer ASUS Dell Gigabyte HP MSI Lenovo Microsoft.

TIFF Opens the Tenth

TIFF 2026: 10–20 Sep; Market 10–16 Sep. Screen Australia list: Tenzing, Prima Facie, 2.6 Seconds, Kick On, Closing Night. Producer delegation / co-pro matchmaking.

They want the mask twice as wide

On 7 and 8 September 2026, ASML and TSMC opened an industry push to 12-inch photomasks for High NA EUV. Samsung and Intel Foundry published matching notes the same SPIE week in Monterey. The pilot-line target is 2031; production readiness 2033. Intel says it has already put more than one million wafers through High NA on today's 6-inch masks.

The intern and the alien mind

On 6 September 2026 OpenAI said its automated research intern goal is met on its measurements — and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki warned the same day that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring enough to keep scaling at maximum speed for much longer.