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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.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.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.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.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.Optimus Gen 3 goes into the old S/X hall
Tesla told JPMorgan in August that Optimus Gen 3's design is finalized and a production line is going into Fremont's old Model S/X facility.Sparks inaugurates the Semi plant on 24 September
Tesla's Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada, was set to be inaugurated on 24 September, Tesla Semi posted. The plant is aimed at 50,000 trucks a year.Tesla told JPMorgan v15 runs on AI4
At Fremont in August, Tesla called FSD v15 a step-change the size of v13 to v14 and said the AI4 computer already in the car can run it unsupervised.State Department names nearly $2 billion for faith-based partners
The State Department has named nearly $2 billion for faith-based health and disaster partners, including World Vision and Compassion.Pad 40 hands Florida Starlink to Starship
The last planned Falcon 9 Starlink from Florida left SLC-40 at 5:33 a.m. Tuesday. The pad is not retiring. The constellation is changing vehicles.ExoMars landing platform model unfolds its legs in Turin test
ESA posted the Turin test on 6 August: four landing legs, two pairs, less than a second. Rosalind Franklin is starting to look like a landing.National Church Life Survey is open through October
The eighth National Church Life Survey is open through October. Twenty-one denominations are in. Late congregations can still sign the sheet.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.
