The Standard

Oak Ridge starts the interior of America’s new fuel plant

TRISO-X dated 24 August 2026 as the next construction phase at TX-1 in Oak Ridge. 19,900 square metres. 700,000 pebbles a year. Clark Construction stays on the job.

Toy Story 5 streams on Disney+ on 23 September

Disney+ dated the Pixar film 23 September 2026. 4K and Blu-ray land 22 September. The picture has taken more than $1.1 billion since 19 June. PG. Andrew Stanton.

One Nation previews coal and gas policy at Marnoo

One Nation previewed coal, gas and a VicGrid strip for VNI West at a Farmers Fightback rally. The formal launch is Monday at Yallourn.

Forte loads Ship 40 at Christmas Island

The Maltese-flagged semi-submersible took the 52-metre stage out of Flying Fish Cove for a 20,000-kilometre run to Starbase.

NASA and SpaceX are go for Roman at 7:26 a.m. Eastern

Falcon Heavy at 39A, Sunday 30 August. Backup Monday 7:22 a.m. ET. Saturday’s prelaunch briefing confirmed go. Weather was 50 percent. This is the attempt, not a landing.

Build the Maker Monday cyberdeck

Raspberry Pi posted the official cyberdeck tutorial on 24 August. Pi 5, 17.8 cm Touch Display 2, CASOMAN 29.2 cm case. Official 4 GB list price is $110. How-To Geek put the board at $130.

Mac Studio gets the Ultra

On 25 August Apple put M5 Max and M5 Ultra in the Studio cylinder. Pre-order now. Ships 22 September. 512 GB in late October.

Nvidia puts Groq 3 LPX into production

24 August at Hot Chips. 256 LP30 chips in a rack. Artificial Analysis: 3,431 tokens a second on Gemma 4 31B. Nebius is first. The $20 billion December deal now has a crate.

Apple put 2-nanometer M6 in the Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the Studio

25 August pre-order. Ships 22 September. M6 mini from US$899. M5 Ultra Studio from US$5,499. Apple’s numbers, Apple’s tests.

Print the piano action that flexes

Hackaday filed [dovetail]’s compliant-mechanism action on 29 August. Here is how the action works, and how to print one key before you print eighty-eight.

Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard

27 August. A shared driver so agents can run lab and factory instruments. Janelia at the start. Device-level safety limits. Not open source yet.