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The farthest loop gets its medal

At Johnson on Friday, President Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew — the first people to fly to the Moon since 1972, and the farthest humans have ever been from home.

Trump signed a U.S. Space Academy order at Johnson on Friday

On 28 August at Johnson Space Center the President signed an executive order establishing a national Space Academy on the pattern of West Point and the Air Force Academy. It will serve Space Force, NASA, and civilian spaceflight. A site is still to be chosen.

Arm sells AGI, a finished 136-core server CPU

Hot Chips, 24 August. Two TSMC N3P chiplets, up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores, 300 W. Arm will sell you the socket, not just the recipe.

Jalapeño is 700 watts

OpenAI’s first inference ASIC, co-developed with Broadcom, put 700-watt Hot Chips numbers against Nvidia’s 1,400-watt flagship.

The night sky is a schedule

A substitution cryptogram and a ROT13 of the same Gulf idea. Two cribs, then the lights.

The alphabet, reversed

Atbash, a rails cross, a power matrix, and a hex coalition.

Apple puts M5 Max on the MacBook Pro

18-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 128 GB of unified memory at 614 GB/s. The 35.6 cm Max starts at US$3,599. Pre-order 4 March, in shops 11 March.

Giga Texas has Cybercab in Production

Tesla’s Q2 2026 shareholder update lists more than 125,000 Cybercabs a year at Gigafactory Texas, in the same Production column as Cybertruck. The first production car left the line in February. Employee rides on campus started in July.

Musk put a ship catch months out, and a reflight by early 2027

SpaceX first caught a Super Heavy booster in October 2024. On 20 August, Elon Musk said a ship that came down at sea would have been caught if a tower had been waiting, and that the first ship reflight should arrive by the end of 2026 or early 2027.

Nvidia's Spark keeps 128 GB of model in a 150 mm box

GB10 Grace Blackwell, 1 petaflop of FP4, 273 GB/s of unified memory. Launch price US$3,999. Founders Edition is US$4,699 since February.

Starlink hit 12 million subscribers at the end of Q2

SpaceX’s Q2 2026 results, for the quarter ended 30 June, put Starlink at 12.0 million subscribers, up 1.7 million in the quarter and double a year earlier. Connectivity revenue was $4.3 billion. Company revenue was $7.8 billion.