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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.

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.

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.

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.

The synod got the house

On 29 August Pope Leo XIV’s Mutua Concordia gave Eastern synods an orderly way to restore communion. The Pope stays guarantor.

Elden Ring Tarnished Edition lands on Switch 2

Elden Ring Tarnished Edition arrived on Switch 2 on 28 August, the series' first Nintendo machine. The Tarnished Pack is €4.99 on the other platforms.

CISA named the week’s exploited bugs and put due dates on the cards

26 and 27 August adds to the KEV catalog. NetScaler and SQL Server were due 29 August. A kernel row is due today. The list stays. The how-to does not.