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SpaceX
NASA books Falcon Heavy for Europe’s Mars rover
The Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation project is in implementation. The launch is late 2028 from 39A — likely SpaceX’s first throw at Mars.
Christian
Pope Leo XIV names Patrick Kelly to the Dicastery for the Laity
Pope Leo XIV has named Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly to the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life. The notice was one sentence.
Computing
Fujitsu puts Monaka's cache on its own 5 nm die
Fujitsu's 144-core Monaka chip puts its cache on a separate 5 nm die, the company told Hot Chips on 24 August. Volume production is due in 2027.
Christian
Hallow study finds college OCIA participation up 87.6 percent
Hallow’s August study of nearly sixty U.S. colleges finds OCIA participation up 87.6 percent in a year. Newman Centers are outrunning the dioceses.
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.