The Archive

Wild Ice hit Steam on 19 August; Lost in Tandem on 22 July

Journey Bound Games shipped a zombie-hockey co-op on 19 August for $16.99. Tempete Studio in Poitiers had already shipped Lost in Tandem, a hand-painted two-player adventure, on 22 July for $14.99.

The Economic Report and the docks are the same coalition

The 2026 Economic Report wants NRC time cut toward a year and nuclear grown toward 400 gigawatts by 2050. Day-one energy policy ended the LNG pause. The MAGA years, in office, are an energy file: nuclear that can get a yes, gas that can get a dock.

Starlink hit 12 million subscribers at the end of Q2

SpaceX’s Q2 2026 results, for the quarter ended 30 June, put Starlink at 12.0 million subscribers, up 1.7 million in the quarter and double a year earlier. Connectivity revenue was $4.3 billion. Company revenue was $7.8 billion.

Nvidia's Spark keeps 128 GB of model in a 150 mm box

GB10 Grace Blackwell, 1 petaflop of FP4, 273 GB/s of unified memory. Launch price US$3,999. Founders Edition is US$4,699 since February.

Musk put a ship catch months out, and a reflight by early 2027

SpaceX first caught a Super Heavy booster in October 2024. On 20 August, Elon Musk said a ship that came down at sea would have been caught if a tower had been waiting, and that the first ship reflight should arrive by the end of 2026 or early 2027.

Giga Texas has Cybercab in Production

Tesla’s Q2 2026 shareholder update lists more than 125,000 Cybercabs a year at Gigafactory Texas, in the same Production column as Cybertruck. The first production car left the line in February. Employee rides on campus started in July.

Apple puts M5 Max on the MacBook Pro

18-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 128 GB of unified memory at 614 GB/s. The 35.6 cm Max starts at US$3,599. Pre-order 4 March, in shops 11 March.

Lang’s Metropolis is 99 years old and still a working drawing

Fritz Lang’s 1927 film opened a city of organ-pipe towers and a machine that is also a cathedral. Watch it in 2026 and the shock is not nitrate. The shock is how much downtown is still trying to become that set.

Part Three was shot on IMAX 70 mm and locked a three-week IMAX window

Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three filmed in IMAX 70 mm. In the U.S. it has a three-week IMAX exclusivity over Avengers: Doomsday. That is a studio putting money into metal and film, not only a volume of pixels.

The Night Desk Files First

Why this paper is a night edition — and why the first file of the evening is allowed to be good news.

Scott’s Nostromo is still the most convincing workplace in space

Ridley Scott’s Alien opened on 25 May 1979. The crew eat, sweat, and have a shift tomorrow. The ship is a factory that learned to fly. Giger’s creature needed that workplace to be believed.