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Next attempt for the #RocketLab #Electron with #Celeste today (28 March): webcasts from 8:50 UTC at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR1en0oGPRs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJxRic-a4SU and lift-off - https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Watch_live_First_Celeste_launch - at 9:14 UTC.

Six planets due to parade across night sky in rare celestial spectacle | Astronomy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/27/six-planets-due-to-parade-across-night-sky-in-rare-celestial-spectacle

Despite the small team size,
Mastodon operates two large, production Mastodon instances:
mastodon.social
Runs on Kubernetes with autoscaling between 9 and 15 nodes (16 cores, 64 GB RAM each). Web frontend scale between 5 and 20 pods, while various Sidekiq worker pools scale between 10 and 40 pods. On average, mastodon.social has 70–80 pods running at any given time. This platform handles up to 300,000 active users per day and approximately 10 million requests per minute.
ma…

How Mastodon Runs OpenTelemetry Collectors in Production
At the beginning of 2025, the OpenTelemetry Developer Experience SIG published the results of its first community survey. One of the strongest themes was clear: teams want more real-world examples of how the OpenTelemetry SDKs and the OpenTelemetry Collector are actually used in production. To help close that gap, the SIG began collecting stories directly from end users—across industries, architectures, and company sizes. This post kicks off a new series focused specifically on organizationsâ…

Federal Reserve Mounts Closed-Door Fight Against Justice Department Subpoenas (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/federal-reserve-mounts-closed-door-fight-against-justice-department-subpoenas-2ab66630?st=SU2ZMz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p4#a260227p4

Uber launches Uber AV Labs, a division to collect real-world driving data via sensor-equipped vehicles to train reinforcement learning models for its partners (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/uber…

Exclusive: Uber launches an 'AV Labs' division to gather driving data for robotaxi partners | TechCrunch
Uber is not developing its own robotaxis again; instead it plans to collect and offer data. It's a bet that more volume will help autonomous vehicle partners solve the weirdest edge cases.

Your semi-regular reminder that the British Library's Research Repository has stacks of open datasets from collections, and research by Library staff e.g. https://bl.iro.bl.uk/catalog?f[human_r

Allez hop control fiscal !
Cannes : 600 000 euros de montres de collection et de bijoux dérobés chez un couple - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/cannes-6…

Cannes : 600 000 euros de montres de collection et de bijoux dérobés chez un couple
Les voleurs se sont introduits dans la résidence du couple de victimes et sont parvenus à leur dérober des montres de collection et des bijoux, sans violences.

Tazapay, which builds cross-border payment infrastructure for fintech and web3 firms, says it closed a Series B extension, bringing its total Series B to $36M (Zoltan Vardai/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/cross-border-paymen…

Circle Leads Tazapay Extension as Total Series B Reaches $36M
Tazapay closed its Series B funding round extension led by Circle and Coinbase Ventures, raising $36 million.

Allez hop control fiscal !!!!
Cannes : 600 000 euros de montres de collection et de bijoux dérobés chez un couple - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/canne…

Cannes : 600 000 euros de montres de collection et de bijoux dérobés chez un couple
Les voleurs se sont introduits dans la résidence du couple de victimes et sont parvenus à leur dérober des montres de collection et des bijoux, sans violences.

Encord, whose software helps companies developing AI models manage training data for robots and other uses, raised $60M at a $500M pre-money valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/robot-data-startup-raises-60-million

A Robot Data Startup Raises $60 Million
Companies developing AI models to power humanoid and other robots have been hard at work collecting videos and other data for training their models, even paying people to record themselves completing tasks in homes and workplaces.As these data-collection efforts start to pay off, and robots take ...