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Sixteen billion ordinary kilometres, still supervised

Tesla’s safety page showed Full Self-Driving (Supervised) past 16 billion kilometres in early May. In January Elon Musk had named that figure as the training data needed for safe unsupervised driving.

Split Fiction has sold more than seven million copies

Hazelight’s co-op adventure, directed by Josef Fares and published by EA Originals, launched on 6 March 2025. Wikipedia and SteamPulse put sales past seven million by April 2026. Steam reviews sit at 97 percent positive.

Starlink Mobile spans 650 satellites and 22 countries

At Mobile World Congress, SpaceX’s Michael Nicolls said the first-generation direct-to-cell system — rebranded Starlink Mobile — has about 650 satellites, 16 million unique users, and 10 million monthly actives through carriers including T-Mobile, Rogers, and KDDI.

The chopsticks caught Super Heavy in October 2024

Two mechanical arms at Starbase caught a falling Super Heavy booster in October 2024. The launch mount stopped being a one-shot stand. It became a gate.

The nuclear sentence is on the Press Club transcript

Hanson’s 17 June National Press Club appearance put civil nuclear back in the national argument: commission a reactor, repeal the net-zero statute that made the conversation feel illegal. Construction is not a 2027 retail product. The conversation is no longer a dare.

Two small studios put finished co-op games on Steam this summer

Tempete Studio shipped Lost in Tandem on 22 July. Journey Bound Games shipped Wild Ice on 19 August. Both are complete objects with a price, a pad count, and a ship date.

V3 Starlinks are sized for Starship’s bay

SpaceX’s Q2 2026 results said the next Starship test is meant to put V3 Starlink satellites into an operational orbit. The birds are built for that cargo bay, not a Falcon fairing.

Washington is telling the NRC to stop taking a decade

President Trump ordered a nuclear-industrial rebuild: fuel cycle, uprates, a target of moving U.S. nuclear from about 100 gigawatts toward 400 by 2050. In January the Energy Department put $2.7 billion into domestic enrichment. In August 2025 it named the first eleven reactor-pilot projects.

XMG puts 240 Hz OLED on the NEO 16

Schenker’s gaming line finally gives the NEO 16 the 240 hertz OLED that used to sit on the FUSION 16. Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, RTX 50-series, from €3,199, order now.

Commodore puts six Alien Breed games on modern machines

Pixel Arcadia on 24 August 2026 named Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection. Commodore publishes. Antstream builds. Team17 licenses. 24 September on PC, PlayStation and Xbox. Switch later in 2026.

Review: Symphony is still a castle

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night shipped in Japan on 20 March 1997 and in North America on 2 October 1997. Alucard, a map that folds back on itself, and a PlayStation disc that taught a generation what a castle is.