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Friday 23 October 2026

The Archive

The Archive

Christian

Pope Leo XIV rides the Marian procession across Lake Albano

Pope Leo XIV became the first pope to ride the Marian procession across Lake Albano. Castel Gandolfo has waited four centuries for that boat.

Space

Artemis II crew gets the Congressional Space Medal of Honor

President Trump has given the Artemis II crew the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. They were the first people to fly to the Moon since 1972.

Live · Breaking

Trump orders a commission to design a US Space Academy

President Trump signed an order at Johnson Space Center on 28 August setting up a commission to design a NASA-led US Space Academy.

Computing

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.

Live · Breaking

OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip 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.

Ciphers

The night sky is a schedule

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

Ciphers

The alphabet, reversed

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

United States

2026 Economic Report pushes faster nuclear and more LNG

The White House's 2026 Economic Report backs faster nuclear and more LNG. It says reactor approvals already take a year, down from over a decade.

Live · Computing

Apple puts M5 Max on the MacBook Pro

Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro has an 18-core CPU, a 40-core GPU and up to 128 GB of memory. The 35.6 cm Max starts at US$3,599.

Tesla

Giga Texas has Cybercab in Production

Tesla's Q2 2026 update lists Cybercab as in production at Gigafactory Texas, at more than 125,000 a year. The first car came off the line in February.

Live · Space

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

Elon Musk said on 20 August that a Starship upper stage should first fly again by the end of 2026 or early 2027. SpaceX first caught a booster in 2024.