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SpaceX
Florida Starlink Waits on Starship
SpaceX has flown its last planned Starlink launch on a Florida Falcon 9, and future East Coast constellation flights move to Starship.
Space
Mio Gets the Polar Ellipse
JAXA's Mio heads into a highly elliptical polar orbit around Mercury in December 2026 to study its magnetic field, alongside ESA's MPO.
Tesla
Nevada Semi Ceremony on the Twenty-Fourth
Tesla's invite-only Semi Rollout on 24 September 2026 inaugurates its factory in Sparks, Nevada, designed for 50,000 trucks a year.
SpaceX
Pad 2 holds the hardware for SpaceX's Starship Flight 14
Booster 21's 33-engine static fire on Pad 2 and Ship 41's tests at Massey's set up SpaceX's Starship Flight 14, aimed at orbit in mid-September.
Upcoming
Peacock releases the full trailer for its Crystal Lake series
Peacock and A24 have released the full trailer for Crystal Lake, with Linda Cardellini as Pam Voorhees. All eight episodes arrive on Thursday 15 October.
AI / LLM
Anthropic Hires for Silicon
Anthropic has confirmed an in-house custom silicon team for Claude and hired Clive Chan, a veteran of OpenAI's chip programme.
Space
BepiColombo starts its six-month Mercury arrival campaign
ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo starts a six-month arrival campaign after its transfer module separated on 3 September. Orbit insertion is 21 November.
AI / LLM
OpenAI limits GPT-6 Astra and plans Daybreak for defenders
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, its first Critical-tier cyber model, helps review and patch code but refuses exploit requests. Daybreak is for defenders.
Tech
Samsung's Micro RGB TVs headline its Connect show in Berlin
Samsung's Connect show in Berlin leads IFA week with Micro RGB TVs, Vision AI Companion and an Odyssey G6 monitor that runs up to 1,100 Hz in HD.
Reviews
Warner Bros releases the final trailer for Iñárritu's Digger
Warner Bros has released the final trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Digger, with Tom Cruise as oil baron Digger Rockwell. It opens from 30 September.
Tech
iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders open, but iPhone Duo waits
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders opened on 12 September, with phones in stores on the 18th. The foldable iPhone Duo takes pre-orders from 16 October.