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NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.
The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.
NASA hired startup
Katalyst Space Technologies
to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit
where it can continue hunting for some of the universe’s biggest explosions.
A three-armed spacecraft built by Katalyst will chase after Swift once …

NASA races to save the Swift telescope with a $30M robotic rescue mission
NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The salvage effort gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver. NASA has hired Katalyst Space Technologies to boost Swift to a higher orbit where it can continue hunting for some of the universe's biggest explosions. Launched in 2004, Swift has been sinking faster and faster because of recent intense solar activity. It needs to get to a higher orbit as soon a…

OpenAI says it plans to stop providing its models to Cursor from November 12, as "we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our ToS" (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-sp…

Halo Reach: flying around in space
I am, apparently, a little way through the game, and I restarted halfway through chapter 3.  The difference in gameplay from the first Halo is marked, with increased reliance on team members and communication, and a move to large scale set pieces rather than small-scale battles in corridors from one waypoint to the next.  The world feels a lot more empty and open, and you have a sense of partaking in a massive war rather than an…

Hear from #SanLuisObispo County Clerk-Recorder, Elaina Cano,
about how checks and balances protect your vote.
Take this opportunity to ask questions.
Following the presentation,
stay to write Get Out the Vote Postcards to Swing States
h…

Behind the Ballot - how election integrity really works · Indivisible
Indivisible San Luis Obispo County is hosting a speaker event. Hear from the San Luis Obispo County Clerk-Recorder, Elaina Cano, who will tell us about how the checks and balances work to protect your vote. Take this opportunity to ask questions. Following the presentation, stay to write Get Out the Vote Postcards to Swing States. *A core principle behind all Indivisible events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontatio…

Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be "neutral"; Musk says he "couldn't care less" (Amir Efrati/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o

OpenAI Pulls Its AI Models From SpaceX-Owned Cursor
OpenAI said Friday night that it will terminate its contract to provide its AI models to coding assistant Cursor following Cursor’s $60 billion acquisition by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The move escalates the high-profile feud between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Musk: OpenAI’s post explicitly cite a lack of trust stemming from alleged past contract violations by Musk-owned entities like X and xAI. (Musk

Second fire growing rapidly in Big Sur burns toward Highway 1
With firefighters already struggling to contain the Timber fire in Big Sur,
a second wildfire in the region grew rapidly Friday
— sending flames in the direction of Highway 1.
The Plaskett fire,
which ignited Tuesday in a remote area about 30 miles down the coast from where the Timber fire started,
exploded from about 140 acres Thursday to roughly 5,900 acres
by 9 p.m. Friday, according …

Second fire growing rapidly in Big Sur barrels towa Highway 1
The Plaskett fire, which ignited Tuesday in a remote area about 30 miles down the coast from where the Timber fire started, exploded to roughly 5,900 acres by 9 p.m. Friday.

Filing: a Kentucky school district secured ~$27M in settlements from Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube in a social media harms lawsuit; Meta paid the most, at $9M (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-paid

In the silent, frozen expanse of interstellar space,
two small emissaries from Earth continue their lonely journey.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched in the late 1970s, have traveled farther than any human-made objects in history.
But as they drift deeper into the void, their nuclear power sources dwindle,
forcing mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to make difficult choices.
To keep these aging pioneers alive, engineers are preparing a da…

NASA pulls off daring trick to keep Voyager 2 alive
Somewhere more than 13 billion miles from Earth, a nearly 50-year-old spacecraft is still doing its job. Voyager 2 has been flying through space since 1977,...

FIling: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M Series A from Thrive Capital and others (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/alternative-social-media-ap…

Instagram alternative Retro raises $21M for close friends sharing
In 2023, ex-Instagram employees launched a new app called Retro. It's one of many new social media apps taking on Big Tech platforms.

Investors continue to dump chipmaker stocks on Wednesday following disappointing results from SK Hynix; Sandisk is down 7.5% , Arm 6.5% , and AMD 6.5% (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e8e3a60a-059c-45b5-bbe3-49add14fd343