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A design space exploration of async/await.
https://cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-space-async-await/
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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But behind the shared syntax hide nine independent design decisions, and no two of seven modern runtimes agree on what even the simplest async programs should do! In this paper we map the design space of async/await so you can find out where your language stands.

Acer unveils the Swift Blade 14, an ultralight laptop weighing 1.76lbs with Intel Wildcat Lake processors, and the Swift Air 16, set to launch in December (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/987802/acer-swift-blade-14…

Acer’s new MacBook Air rival is nearly a pound lighter than Apple’s laptop
The Swift Blade 14 is a new ultra-light laptop from Acer, with 12GB of RAM and Intel Wildcat Lake. Acer is also announcing the larger Swift Air 16.

MEPs With Agri-Food Financial Stakes Vote Against Environmental Rules, Study Finds https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/meps-agri-food-financial-stakes-vote-against-environmental-rules-study-finds/

MEPs With Agri-Food Financial Stakes Vote Against Environmental Rules, Study Finds - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Members of the European Parliament who hold private financial interests in the agri-food sector were around three times more likely to vote against

Rocket Lab to acquire #Iridium in $8bn deal that reshapes space communications market: https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/rocket-lab-iridium-acquisition-space-communications/ - if completed, the deal would combine Rocket Lab’s launch, satellite manufacturing and space systems capabilities with Iridium’s global low Earth orbit communications network, L-band spectrum and established customer base.

Wie houdt die idioot tegen?
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/spacex-is-set-to-acquire-130000-acres-of-marshland-in-southern-louisiana/

EIL Wenn es irgendwo weniger kostet, dann gehen da mehr Menschen hin https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/gastronomie-steuersenkung-preise-gaeste-100.html

Restaurants geben reduzierte Mehrwertsteuer kaum weiter
Im Januar wurde der Mehrwertsteuersatz auf Speisen in der Gastronomie reduziert. Eine neue Befragung zeigt, dass die große Mehrheit der Betriebe ihre Preise daraufhin nicht gesenkt hat.

Jannik Sinner (1) beats Jan-Lennard Struff 7-5 7-6(4) 6-5
Struff gave it all he had, but Sinner was far too good and might, perhaps, have played himself into a bit of form.
Next for him: Auger-Aliassime or Djokovic
https://www.

Wimbledon 2026 quarter-finals: Sinner sweeps past Struff; Gauff edges out Pegula – live
Join our writers for latest updates as the men’s and women’s singles quarter-finals get under way at SW19

Versant agrees to acquire Full Swing, a sports tech company best known for its advanced golf simulators, tracking, and analytics software for $530M in cash (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Versant Inks $530 Million Deal for Sports Tech Company Full Swing
The tech company, best known for its advanced golf simulators, will expand the Golf Channel owner's presence in the tech and analytics space.

Fisher Forecasting for the DESC with $\texttt{Augur}$
Paul Rogozenski, Sankarshana Srinivasan, Javier S\'anchez, Nora Elisa Chisari, Arthur Loureiro, Marc Paterno, Rebekah Polen, Heather Prince, Biancamaria Sersante, An\v{z}e Slosar, Sandro Vitenti, Carlos Garc\'ia-Garc\'ia, Eric Gawiser, Christos Georgiou, C. Danielle Leonard, Ayan Mitra, Jeremy Neveu, The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03876 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.03876 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.03876
arXiv:2608.03876v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) has begun its ten-year survey of the entire visible southern hemisphere. To ensure robust cosmological measurements, computationally inexpensive investigations of modeling choices must be made to gauge the performance of proposed cosmological analyses. In this paper, we introduce the $\texttt{Augur}$ tool of the Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC), which provides Fisher forecasts for cosmological inference for the LSST using software frameworks designed for DESC science. We test the pipeline by comparing it to forecasts produced by external code and direct sampling of the posterior via nested sampling methods, finding good agreement between all methods. We additionally investigate a range of modeling and hyperparameter choices for a 3$\times$2pt investigation in harmonic space, providing users with diagnostics to obtain reliable forecasts. $\texttt{Augur}$ will be continually updated to be compatible with the other tools in the DESC software ecosystem as additional probes and functionality become available.
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Rocket Lab is buying Iridium’s satellite network for $8 billion
to take on SpaceX
Rocket Lab
-- the space company best known for its small satellite launcher Electron,
-- has announced plans to acquire Iridium Communications for $8 billion.
The deal will combine Rocket Lab’s launch services and spacecraft manufacturing
with Iridium’s satellite-based communications network,
putting it in a better position to challenge SpaceX.
Iridium offers comm…

Rocket Lab is buying Iridium’s satellite network for $8 billion to take on SpaceX
Rocket Lab is acquiring the satellite-based communications company Iridium for $8 billion. The deal will put RocketLab in charge of Iridium’s constellation of 66 satellites.