The Archive

A knight for the family desk

On 25 August Pope Leo XIV named Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly to the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life. The Vatican bulletin is one sentence. The work is not.

The campuses filled the class

Hallow’s August study of nearly sixty U.S. colleges finds OCIA participation up 87.6 percent in a year. Newman Centers are outrunning the dioceses.

Fujitsu puts Monaka's cache on its own 5 nm die

Hot Chips, 24 August. 144 Armv9.3-A cores on 2 nm, last-level cache on 5 nm. Samples now. Volume in 2027.

The statue went out on the water

Pope Leo XIV became the first pope to ride the Marian procession across Lake Albano. Castel Gandolfo has waited four centuries for that boat.

Trump signed a U.S. Space Academy order at Johnson on Friday

On 28 August at Johnson Space Center the President signed an executive order establishing a national Space Academy on the pattern of West Point and the Air Force Academy. It will serve Space Force, NASA, and civilian spaceflight. A site is still to be chosen.

The farthest loop gets its medal

At Johnson on Friday, President Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew — the first people to fly to the Moon since 1972, and the farthest humans have ever been from home.

Arm sells AGI, a finished 136-core server CPU

Hot Chips, 24 August. Two TSMC N3P chiplets, up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores, 300 W. Arm will sell you the socket, not just the recipe.

The night sky is a schedule

A substitution cryptogram and a ROT13 of the same Gulf idea. Two cribs, then the lights.

Jalapeño is 700 watts

OpenAI’s first inference ASIC, co-developed with Broadcom, put 700-watt Hot Chips numbers against Nvidia’s 1,400-watt flagship.

The alphabet, reversed

Atbash, a rails cross, a power matrix, and a hex coalition.

YouGov had One Nation on 28 percent in mid-June

A Sky News YouGov poll, 9–16 June, 1,492 voters, put One Nation at 28 percent of the primary vote, Labor 26, the Coalition 21. At the May 2025 federal election the party was a minor. Thirteen months later it was level with the government in that sample.