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V3 Starlinks are sized for Starship’s bay

SpaceX’s Q2 2026 results said the next Starship test is meant to put V3 Starlink satellites into an operational orbit. The birds are built for that cargo bay, not a Falcon fairing.

The chopsticks caught Super Heavy in October 2024

Two mechanical arms at Starbase caught a falling Super Heavy booster in October 2024. The launch mount stopped being a one-shot stand. It became a gate.

Supervised FSD passed 16 billion kilometres in May

Tesla’s safety page showed Full Self-Driving (Supervised) past 16 billion kilometres (16 billion kilometres) in early May. In January Elon Musk had named that figure as the training data needed for safe unsupervised driving.

Brookshire starts Megapack 3

On 6 August Tesla’s Megapack account said Megapack 3 is rolling at the new Megafactory in Brookshire, Texas. Designed capacity is 50 GWh a year. Each unit holds about 5 MWh.

Starlink Mobile spans 650 satellites and 22 countries

At Mobile World Congress, SpaceX’s Michael Nicolls said the first-generation direct-to-cell system — rebranded Starlink Mobile — has about 650 satellites, 16 million unique users, and 10 million monthly actives through carriers including T-Mobile, Rogers, and KDDI.

NASA slipped Crew-13 after a Dragon oxidizer leak

On 29 August NASA said it is adjusting the Crew-13 launch date to address an oxidizer leak on Dragon’s propulsion system, found in standard prelaunch processing. No new date yet. The crew remains Watkins, Delaney, Kutryk, and Teteryatnikov.

Apple opens Core AI so apps load a model like a font

WWDC, 8 June. The inference stack behind Apple Intelligence is now a Swift API, a .aimodel file, and a public Qwen, Mistral, and SAM 3 repository.

Apple's bigger on-device model needs 12 GB and an iPhone 17 Pro

WWDC, 8 June. Expressive Siri and advanced dictation stay on the 12 GB phones. The base iPhone 17, at 8 GB, does not get them.

Split Fiction has sold more than seven million copies

Hazelight’s co-op adventure, directed by Josef Fares and published by EA Originals, launched on 6 March 2025. Wikipedia and SteamPulse put sales past seven million by April 2026. Steam reviews sit at 97 percent positive.

Two small studios put finished co-op games on Steam this summer

Tempete Studio shipped Lost in Tandem on 22 July. Journey Bound Games shipped Wild Ice on 19 August. Both are complete objects with a price, a pad count, and a ship date.

Hanson took the energy package to the Press Club on 17 June

Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club address on 17 June put One Nation’s energy plank on a national stage: keep dispatchable plant, treat gas as a strategic asset, stop treating a new gas appliance as a moral problem. Polls that week still had the party at 28–29 percent.