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This week the launch services contract was signed for the Heliospheric Pioneer for Solar and Interplanetary Threats Defence - #Henon - mission, ESA’s first stand-alone deep-space CubeSat, confirming that the pioneering spacecraft will fly onboard Ariane 6, alongside ESA’s Plato mission: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Shaping_the_Future/Deep_space_pioneer_Henon_signs_to_launch_with_Plato

Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help businesses interview, onboard, and manage frontline workers, raised a $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/14/orbi…

Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers | TechCrunch
Orbio announces $21 Million Series A in round led by Dawn Capital.

Max Verstappen live
🔴 LIVE Onboard #3 | Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing | ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring 2026 - YouTube
#MaxVerstappen #Nürburgring

> Linus says AI tooling is OK, and Linux is a technical project rather than a social movement
> A subset of people flip because the BDFL isn't onboard with their mission to make every single thing political
> I'm annoyed because now I have to find a way to filter out people talking about politics in Linux without filtering out Linux
I will nonetheless persist with my "No Politics Unless It Shits In My Yard And Then Only As Much As Is Absolutely Require…

"No one thought AI [LLMs] could be restricted"
Maybe no one onboard the hype train. NVIDIA GPUs are partially restricted, I'm not surprised the US government and especially this one is restricting things marketed as dangerously powerful.

I think this will get a laugh from @ottaross 😂

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116753866177754138
FUCK.
I like my Roku stick; I bought one when the onboard smart TV operating system choked itself on adverts and it treats me like I'm the customer rather than the product.
G…

#Ballrooms are crap.

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/

A study of Waymo robotaxi data for 13.8M trips from August 2023 to December 2025: the share of miles driven with a passenger onboard climbed from 36% to 56% (Jonathan M. Gitlin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/robotaxi…

Autonomous vehicles were supposed to cut traffic—what if they don't?
Data shows Waymo's robotaxis are empty for almost half of the miles they drive.

Nürburgring 2026 tussenstand bij 54 ronden
1 team Verstappen Racing (3)
2 team Ravenol (80) 01.428
3 Walkenhorst Motorsport (34) 2:22.269
allen in dezelfde ronde
🔴 LIVE Onboard #80 | Mercedes-AMG Team RAVENOL | ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring 2026 - YouTube
#Verstappen #nurburgring24h

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."

Quantification of atmospheric carbon dioxide from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES East)
Aaron Sonabend-W, Sean Campbell, John Platt, Christopher Van Arsdale, Anna M. Michalak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23991 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.23991 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.23991
arXiv:2605.23991v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: There is a growing urgency to track greenhouse gasses with the resolution, precision and accuracy needed to support independent verification of $CO_2$ fluxes at local to global scales. The current generation of space-based sensors, however, only provides sparse observations in space and time. This challenge has fueled interest in the potential use of data from existing missions originally developed for other applications for inferring global greenhouse gas variability. The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) onboard the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-East), operational since 2017, provides full coverage of much of the western hemisphere at 10-minute intervals from geostationary orbit at 16 wavelengths at an approximately 2$km^2$ spatial resolution. Here, we leverage this high spatial coverage and temporal revisit to develop a single-pixel, physics-guided neural network to estimate dry-air column $CO_2$ mole fraction ($XCO_2$). The model employs a time series of GOES-East's 16 spectral bands, ECMWF ERA5 lower tropospheric meteorology, MODIS surface reflectance, solar and satellite viewing geometry, and day of year. Training used collocated GOES-East and OCO-2/OCO-3 observations. We also present case studies illustrating the use of the model to observe $XCO_2$ enhancements over urban areas and drawdown over agricultural regions. Overall, while the precision of GOES-East derived $XCO_2$ can never rival that of dedicated instruments, the unprecedented combination of contiguous geographic coverage, 10-minute temporal frequency, and multi-year record offers the potential to observe aspects of atmospheric $CO_2$ variability currently unseen from space.
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Spatially distributed complex #organic matter detected in an ancient river valley in #Jezero crater, #Mars: #Raman spectrometer onboard the #Perseverance rover, we report the heterogeneous distribution of organic carbon within mudstones located in an ancient river valley on Mars. Measurements of two mudstones show hundreds of organic detections, making this the most robust organic detection in Jezero crater thus far, and, to our knowledge, the only detection of macromolecular carbon on a natural rock surface on Mars."