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Starlink says it has reached 9M "active customers" across 155 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 8M on November 5 (Polly Thompson/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-customer-number…

Elon Musk's Starlink is adding 20,000 new users a day as it hits 9 million customers
Customer numbers for SpaceX's Starlink internet have surged by 1 million in the past six weeks, the company said on X.

SpaceX deaktiviert Starlink-Antennen bei mutmaßlichen Scam-Zentren in Myanmar
Im Bürgerkriegsland Myanmar werden unzählige Menschen festgehalten und gezwungen, mit Betrug online Geld einzutreiben. Nun ist auch SpaceX dagegen vorgegangen.

I'm starting to get a feel that those cards are not against humanity after all
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/cards-against-humanity-gets-settlement-from-spacex-plans-pack-of-elon-musk-cards/

Cards Against Humanity lawsuit forced SpaceX to vacate land on US/Mexico border
CAH: Trespassing lawsuit forced SpaceX to “pack up the space garbage” and leave.

In 2014, NASA awarded a Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to Boeing to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station with its #Starliner spacecraft; as part of its contract, Boeing was awarded up to six crewed flights to the orbital complex - after a thorough evaluation, the definitive order has been adjusted to four missions, with the remaining two available as options: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/11/24/nasa-boeing-modify-commercial-crew-contract/. The next Starliner flight, known as Starliner-1, will be used by NASA to deliver necessary cargo to the orbital laboratory and allow in-flight validation of the system upgrades implemented following the Crew Flight Test mission last year - NASA and Boeing are targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 pending completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities.

Here's another business AI fail. Check out the subject line from today's newsletter:
"Claude to suggest subject line"
A very disappointing effort from Her Canberra.
#AI #Email #Newsletter

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 87 nodes and 375 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Starshield von SpaceX: Satelliten der US-Regierung nutzen gesperrte Frequenzen
Bei Starshield stellt SpaceX Regierungen Satelliten, viel ist dazu nicht bekannt. Nun wurde entdeckt, dass die offenbar auf einer gesperrten Frequenz funken.

A US judge rules Kalshi's sports-betting contracts are subject to Nevada Gaming Commission enforcement; Kalshi argues they should be regulated only by the CFTC (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Fusion: EU-Satellitenbetreiber wollen gemeinsam Musks SpaceX Paroli bieten
Airbus, Leonardo und Thales planen den Zusammenschluss ihrer Raumfahrtsparten. Die EU-Wettbewerbsbehörden müssen den Deal noch prüfen, OHB erhebt Einspruch.

AST launches its largest-ever satellite from India, hosting the BlueBird Block-2, the first in a series of deployments to challenge SpaceX in satellite internet (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20