The Archive

Blindsight human trials are in the window

Elon Musk said on 24 August 2026 that Blindsight human implants are six to 12 months out. FDA Breakthrough designation is 17 September 2024. There are still zero human Blindsight implants on the public record.

VOICE is the speech trial

Neuralink’s VOICE study (NCT07224256) is recruiting at UT Southwestern. Enrollment is listed as six. Start 3 October 2025, primary completion October 2028. The speech stack is a different product from Telepathy’s cursor.

One Nation takes Secret Harbour

Luke Herdegen is One Nation’s first Western Australian lower-house MP after the 29 August 2026 by-election. Labor’s Georgia Tree conceded on 30 August.

Twenty-one Neuralnauts

Neuralink says 21 people are now in human trials worldwide. The company’s own Telepathy post puts numbers on bits per second, hours a day, and a safety line of zero serious device-related events.

XMG puts 240 Hz OLED on the NEO 16

Schenker’s gaming line finally gives the NEO 16 the 240 hertz OLED that used to sit on the FUSION 16. Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, RTX 50-series, from €3,199, order now.

Washington is telling the NRC to stop taking a decade

President Trump ordered a nuclear-industrial rebuild: fuel cycle, uprates, a target of moving U.S. nuclear from about 100 gigawatts toward 400 by 2050. In January the Energy Department put $2.7 billion into domestic enrichment. In August 2025 it named the first eleven reactor-pilot projects.

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.

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.

The nuclear sentence is on the Press Club transcript

Hanson’s 17 June National Press Club appearance put civil nuclear back in the national argument: commission a reactor, repeal the net-zero statute that made the conversation feel illegal. Construction is not a 2027 retail product. The conversation is no longer a dare.

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.

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.