SpaceX launched 56 Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets on October 19, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/802509/starlink-launches-10000th-internet-sate…
The Financial Times launches its free newsletter FT Alphaville on Substack to reach younger readers, joining Reach, the Daily Mail, and other publishers (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/f…
I've been playing a lot of Ball x Pit - psyched to learn its first free update ('The Regal Update') will be available January 26 with new balls, passives, and other features: https://www.gematsu.com/2026/01/ball-x-pit-the-regal-update-launches-january-26…
US launches large-scale strike in Syria targeting ISIS: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/us-launches-largescale-strike-in.html
A broad retreat is underway in the nonprofit world.
After Donald Trump ordered his administration to root out “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts earlier this year,
opening the door to investigations and funding cuts for offenders,
more than 1,000 charities rewrote their mission statements in forms they filed this year with the Internal Revenue Service,
removing or minimizing language tied to race, inequity and historically disadvantaged communities.<…
Linus Åkesson perform’s Ravel’s Boléro on his 8-bit chiptune musical instruments https://linusakesson.net/music/bolero/index.php
Parkland Survivor Cameron Kasky Launches Bid For Congress (Paige Skinner/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/parkland-survivor-cameron-kasky-launches-bid-for-congress_n_691cc636e4b0414d84d7c557
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p26#a251119p26
Google plans to release Gemini 3 Deep Think to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the coming weeks, once it passes further rounds of safety testing (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/google-launches-gemini-3-…
The National Association of Broadcasters launches a campaign to support live sports on free broadcast channels as more big games move to streaming services (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/platform/broadcast/n…