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NFL, referees hammer out 7-year deal, will avoid use of replacements in 2026 season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7261902/2026/05/08/nfl-referees-agreement-cba/

An anomaly onboard the #Proba3 mission’s Coronagraph spacecraft led to loss of contact between the spacecraft and ground control: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Work_ongoing_to_restore_contact_with_Proba-3_s_Coronagraph - the root cause of the anomaly is under investigation and mission teams are working hard to recover the situation.

2:31 p.m. Eastern
NASA’s Artemis II crew members are boarding the agency’s Orion spacecraft to begin communication checks to confirm voice links with mission control and onboard systems. 
Before entering the spacecraft that will be their home on the approximately 
10-day journey around the Moon and back,
all four crewmates signed the inside of the White Room, an area at the end of the crew access arm that provides access to the spacecraft.
The term “White Room” d…

LIVE: Artemis II Launch Day Updates - NASA
Live updates for launch of NASA's Artemis II test flight will be published on this page. All times are Eastern.

Sources: the White House is developing rules for government agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and onboard new models like Mythos (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/29/trump-anthropic-pentagon-ai-executive-order-gov…

Scoop: White House workshops plan to bring back Anthropic
One source described the efforts as a way to "save face and bring em back in."

Fire damage aboard #US supercarrier off #Iran caused by fire in a laundry is forcing the ship to go to Crete for repairs amid claims of poor crew morale.
Speculating here, but is this arson/sabotage?
#IranCrisis

The Atlantic signs a three-year deal with cruise line Seabourn, giving passengers digital access while onboard and a three-month subscription after disembarking (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/atlantic-cruise-ship-seabourn-partnership…

The Atlantic Takes Its Journalism to Sea in Three-Year Cruise Ship Partnership
The deal will boost both ad revenue and subscriptions, which grew by 300,000 in the last year

Worth, which aims to help financial services onboard and underwrite SMBs, raised a $30M Series A led by Fulcrum Equity Partners, following a $25M seed round (Brian Contreras/Inc)
https://www.inc.com/brian-contreras/fintech-startup-stax-unic…

Worth, the Startup From the Founders of Stax, Just Raised $30 Million to Deliver 'Simplicity for Small Businesses'
The brother and sister team of Sal Rehmetullah and Suneera Madhani are banking on AI for their young fintech startup.

The Radio-wave Observations at the Lunar Surface of the photoElectron Sheath (ROLSES) instrument onboard the #IntuitiveMachines-1 Mission to the Moon: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22600 -> "This paper describes the design and operations of the ROLSES instrument and presents initial observations made during transit and surface operations in February 2024. We also describe next version of this instrument (ROLSES 2) currently under development."

Mehmet Oz said on Triggered with Don Jr, the president’s eldest son’s podcast:
“Your dad argues that diet soda is good for him because it kills grass – if poured on grass – so, therefore, it must kill cancer cells inside the body,”
Oz then described a recent moment onboard Air Force One.
“You know, we were on Air Force One the other day, and I walk in there because he wants to talk about something, and he’s got an orange soft drink on his desk.
He’s got a Fanta on the…

Candex, which helps large companies pay small, one-time, or irregular vendors, raised a $40M Series C, bringing its total funding to more than $120M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/fintech-startup-candex-raises-4…

Exclusive: Candex Extends Series C To $40M+ To Help Enterprises Easily Onboard Global Vendors
New York-based Candex, a startup that helps large companies pay small, one-time, or irregular vendors without the administrative headache or risk that comes with onboarding them, has grown its July Series C raise to $40 million via a strategic investment from HSBC.

The first #Ariane 64 flight is well underway (and has just reached the target orbit)- here is the booster separation from an onboard cam, see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-4-februar-2026/#Feb12 (scroll down ... a lot) for more timesteps from the webcast.

Bills restructure Josh Allen's contract to create more than $12 million in cap space https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7108261/2026/03/11/josh-allen-buffalo-bills-restructure-cap-space-free-agency/