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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.

"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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Jungle Fire:
🎵 Comencemos (Let's Start)
#JungleFire
https://matasunarecords.bandcamp.com/track/jungle-fire-comencemos-renegades-of-jazz-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/44kT6XsCkSGb9wNQ5qGXvg

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Alan Braxe feat. Annie:
🎵 Never Coming Back
#NowPlaying #AlanBraxe #Annie
https://alanbraxe.bandcamp.com/track/never-coming-back-feat-annie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ovssuQcWfJa1KVlKzmFNn

✨ SIG-Marcomms Meeting Recap ✨
Our communications community gathered in Helsinki right before #TNC26 for a day of discussions and shared learning. One question was on everyone's mind: how do we move from communications as a reactive function to communications as a strategic force?
What followed were discussions on crisis communications, strategic influence and a round of Lightning…

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.

Things have been pretty quiet in my Minneapolis channels for the last few hours. Looks like this morning was a coordinated sudden strike. Everyone is now vigilant for the next thing, but we don’t know if it’s coming in an hour or a week or a month.

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.”

Trump has previewed a Republican strategy for the midterm elections,
seizing on a progressive sweep in New York to portray Democrats as
“godless communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation.
The president, who was a child during the “red scare”, seized on wins by democratic socialists backed by the mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, to stoke fears that the Democratic party has embraced extremism that could lead to the violent persecution of Christians.

Trump attacks Democrats as ‘godless communists’ in test of midterms message
President seizes on wins by Mamdani-backed candidates to warn darkly of threat to ‘traditional American way of life’