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Rocket Lab plans to acquire Iridium for $8B and combine Rocket Lab's launch services with Iridium's satellite-based communications network to rival SpaceX (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/science/958891/rocket-lab-iridium-…

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.

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.

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.

"Peter Thiel realizes he has planted the seeds of society's destruction and is getting out while he can."
Eschaton: I Did Not See That Coming
https://www.eschatonblog.com/2026/05/i-did-not-see-that-coming.html

Raiders coach Klint Kubiak addresses the media as camp commences — WATCH LIVE https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-coach-klint-kubiak-addresses-the-media-as-camp-commences-watch-live-3856054/…

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Jungle Fire:
🎵 Comencemos (Let's Start)
#JungleFire
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Colts QB Daniel Jones 'feeling good' coming off Achilles tear, full-go for training camp https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-qb-daniel-jones-feeling-good-coming-off-achilles-tear-full-go-for-training-camp

Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong urge UK to intervene in Paramount-Warner Bros merger
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2026/jul/27/tv-cinema-…

A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop that
The Paramount-Warner Bros merger is being fought on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain’s culture secretary knows the risks and can intervene. She should, say actors led by Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong

Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers "in the coming weeks" following the development of stronger safeguards (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/anthropic-opus-release-mythos

Anthropic releases new model, Opus 4.8
A Mythos-class model is expected in the coming weeks.

The ABC television network on Thursday issued a rigorous defense of its right to broadcast,
accusing the Federal Communications Commission of threatening its station licenses as part of a campaign of
“unconstitutional retaliation and coercion.”
Its accusation came in a formal response to a highly unusual move by the F.C.C. in April
ordering ABC to apply to renew its broadcasting licenses years before they are set to expire.
The request from the agency raised th…

ABC Accuses Media Regulator of Threatening Its Licenses
The TV network slammed the Federal Communications Commission, saying the regulator was targeting its station licenses in a campaign of “unconstitutional retaliation.”