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Ciphers
Eight in the yard
A letter matrix of catch, stack, train, and the quiet jobs around them.
United States
Janus reactors inside the fence go through ARRO, not the NRC
Janus microreactors will be licensed by the Army Reactor Office, not the NRC, on a defense-only path built to line up later commercial approvals.
United States
Army names five posts for commercial microreactors
Five Army posts from Bragg to Drum will host commercial microreactors, with vendors named and a 2028 clock.
United States
Army's Janus: up to $2.2 billion for more than 20 microreactors
The Army's Janus program has picked five companies to build and run microreactors at military posts, with up to $2.2 billion from fiscal 2027 to 2031.
Australia
Hanson named Mike Newman to lead One Nation in NSW
Pauline Hanson has named former NSW investment commissioner Mike Newman as One Nation's state leader for 2027. He'll run in Labor-held Cessnock.
Australia
Hanson told the ABC Victoria should look at nuclear
Pauline Hanson told the ABC that Victoria should build new coal-fired stations and look at nuclear, but wouldn't say how One Nation would pay for them.
Game Reviews
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 landed on 27 August
Konami's Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 is out on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, Switch and Switch 2, with Metal Gear Solid 4 and Peace Walker.
Tech
Z.ai and Qwen ship the same hybrid-attention graph
26 August. GLM-5.3-Flash is 320B total, 18B active, MIT. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is 125B with 6B active. Both land on a 3:1 linear-to-sparse stack.
Tech
IBM cuts the LLM out of Granite Speech and ships 470 million parameters
Same day as Granite 4.2. Two English ASR models, no language-model backbone. IBM's H200 number is 12,600 RTFx.
Tech
IBM ships Granite 4.2 as three dense Apache reasoners
IBM's Granite 4.2, out 25 August, is three dense reasoning models at 3B, 8B and 30B, trained on about 15 trillion tokens. Apache 2.0.
Ciphers
Catch, then the ship
A Caesar five, Morse from the pad, and a tiny A-is-1 reflight.