NASA Opens 2027 Human Lander Challenge for Lunar Communications

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NASA’s 2027 Human Lander Challenge is seeking ideas from college and university students to help address one of the most critical needs for sustained lunar exploration: reliable communications. As NASA prepares for long-term human presence on the Moon through the Artemis and Moon Base programs, communications systems will be just as important as spacecraft andContinue Reading

SpaceX Has More Annual Recurring Revenue than Anthropic

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Tickerplus data indicates Anthropic’s ARR seems to have flatlined around the time when the token index peaked. Anthropic is at about $76 billion ARR. 👀 Interesting data from @tickerplus. Acc to this data, Anthropic’s ARR seems to have flatlined around the time when the token index peaked. Many people questioned (rightly) at the time theContinue Reading

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Sponsored by Labelmaster. Damaged, defective or recalled (DDR) batteries are classified as dangerous goods, and shipping them safely usually means one battery per container. For Renewance, a company managing end-of-life EV and energy storage batteries at scale, that requirement increases both cost and handling time. Renewance found a better packagingContinue Reading

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When right wing billionaire Larry Ellison (and his nepobaby son David) hired blog-troll Bari Weiss to run CBS News, Weiss arrived with the promise of “balanced, fact-based news,” “independent, principled journalism,” and a unique “entrepreneurial drive and editorial vision” that would modernize the network and reach the “everyday Americans” theyContinue Reading

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Destroy Any Website is a browser-based run-and-gun that lets you run amok on any public-facing website – with an array of destructive weapons. You take command of a character and run, jump and jetpack around website site elements using traditional WASD controls, taking aim with your mouse to score pointsContinue Reading

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One of the most rewarding parts of being a Certified Android Explorer™ is the geeky pleasure that comes with uncovering a hidden shortcut Google snuck somewhere into its smartphone software. One of the most exhausting parts, in contrast, is realizing that Google randomly changed a bunch of the shortcuts you’dContinue Reading

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The fact that almost one-fourth of Anthropic’s revenue last year came from just two customers, and that many of its largest customers have not signed long-term contracts, could translate into a much stronger negotiating position for enterprise CIOs. According to a detailed analysis by Reuters, the company’s confidential prospectus depictedContinue Reading

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When we heard about the Netherlands’ DAWO initiative, a formal mandate to replace outside software across Dutch public institutions with a NixOS-powered platform, we asked ourselves: How could France miss out on this? Turns out, they didn’t. DINUM, the country’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs, has been running its ownContinue Reading

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STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Right Livelihood Award was awarded Wednesday to two women and two women-led organizations challenging authoritarian rule, violence and discrimination against women, and the harms caused by artificial intelligence, the Stockholm-based foundation said. The recipients of the international award are a Pakistani lawyer, an Ethiopian-born AI researcher,Continue Reading