📰 Space

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Software development and programming

A growing number of Go developers are urging tool vendors, package managers and CI services to stop automatically selecting or upgrading the Go toolchain for their projects, arguing that version choic...

2026-03-29 23:48

Space and aerospace computing history

IBM’s 4 Pi family of real-time computers helped usher in the era of digital avionics, rising from late-1960s laboratory prototypes to flight-proven workhorses that powered some of the most demanding a...

2026-03-29 23:48

Programming languages

Could you provide the contents or key points of “A Message from the Ruby Central Board”? To report this accurately, I’ll need details such as what the board announced, when and where the message was i...

2026-03-29 23:48

🧪 IBM 4 Pi aerospace computer history

IBM’s System/4 Pi family, introduced in the mid-1960s, helped define the digital heart of U.S. aerospace at the height of the Cold War and into the Space Shuttle era, before giving way to modern, modu...

2026-03-29 23:48

🧪 Programming lab/OCaml

A new programming research and training center dedicated to advancing the OCaml ecosystem launched this week under the banner OxCaml Labs, bringing together engineers, academics and industry partners ...

2026-03-29 23:48

🧪 Axiom Space commercial station plans

Axiom Space announced plans to build its own commercial space station, describing it as the logical next step after “renting a room at the ISS and deciding to buy the whole neighborhood.” The company ...

2026-03-28 23:47

🧪 Virgin Galactic executive appointment

Virgin Galactic calmly announced that Megan Prichard has been appointed Chief Growth Officer, a role traditionally focused on revenue but now also charged with exploring new dimensions in verticality....

2026-03-28 23:47

🧪 China's commercial space sector growth

China’s commercial space sector is reportedly accelerating so fast that investors have started measuring valuations in kilonewtons. Provincial governments, determined to out-Cape Canaveral each other,...

2026-03-28 23:47

NASA Artemis II pre-launch arrival and preparations

NASA said its Artemis II crew has entered “final preparations” for a journey around the Moon, a phrase that here denotes a precisely engineered interval in which every switch, stitch and syllable is r...

2026-03-27 23:43

Artemis II mission significance, crew features, and partners

NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed voyage to the Moon’s neighborhood in more than 50 years, will boldly demonstrate humanity’s most audacious capability to date: leaving Earth, circling somet...

2026-03-27 23:41

Human health and risks in space

After decades of dutifully watching robots stoically endure Martian sandstorms without a single tearful confessional, the public has rediscovered its favorite spaceflight genre: People. According to c...

2026-03-27 23:40

International astronaut training, ISS outreach, and programs

The European Space Agency announced this week that its astronaut reserve has begun their final training block, the rigorous last step before these impeccably polite overachievers can be unleashed upon...

2026-03-27 23:38

🧪 SpaceX share sale and rocket stocks

Rocket and space-related stocks rallied in U.S. trading after news that Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing to file for a share sale, lifting sentiment across the sector. The prospect of fresh price disco...

2026-03-26 23:34

🧪 Programming language release

Swift 6.3 has been released, marking the latest update to the open-source programming language used across Apple’s platforms and beyond. The new version extends the Swift 6 line, which introduced a mo...

2026-03-26 23:34

Programming performance and compiler optimizations

Two studies are reshaping assumptions about compiler optimisations, finding that higher optimisation levels do not reliably produce faster software and that carefully targeted techniques often outperf...

2026-03-26 23:34

Programming/optimization deep dives

A recent technical deep dive is drawing attention in the developer community for turning a slow, brute-force Minecraft structure locator into a near-instant tool through a series of algorithmic and sy...

2026-03-26 23:33

🧪 Rocket Lab hypersonic test contract

Rocket Lab announced it has secured a $190 million deal to help the U.S. military test hypersonic technology, a program officials described as “making very expensive things go very, very fast on purpo...

2026-03-25 23:32

SpaceX launch updates and contract shift

In a bold demonstration of calendar literacy, SpaceX’s latest launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, originally slotted for Tuesday, has been rescheduled for Wednesday, firmly establishing the compa...

2026-03-25 23:32

🧪 macOS Spaces switching/productivity

Apple is introducing a native option for instant Space switching in macOS, letting users jump between virtual desktops without the familiar sliding animation. The change aims to cut the lag between ta...

2026-03-24 23:31

Policy and regulation in commercial space

In a development sure to reassure anyone who has ever wondered what happens when public policy meets escape velocity, a new legal outlook holds that the sky is no longer the limit for commercial space...

2026-03-23 23:29