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Google is about to find out if its AI chips can live in space.
A concrete artifact—a TPU riding a rocket—that makes the near future physically strange: AI leaving Earth because terrestrial power and land are already political.
Google Research blog (Sep 24, 2026) and Ars Technica. Primary: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatcher-facts/
The app store that doesn’t want your data just got a 10-year glow-up.
The last major FOSS app store fighting the default future of phones—a product drop with clear “closing the garden” tension.
Official F-Droid blog, Sep 24, 2026: https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html
AI made one doctor better. She thinks it’s making the next ones worse.
The strange split between experienced humans using AI as depth and juniors using it as a crutch.
New York Times guest essay by geriatrician Rachael Bedard, Sep 25, 2026: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/opinion/ai-doctor-medical-students.html
The internet just got a foundry for bastard fonts.
A tiny, mischievous builder artifact that turns typography into both a joke and a weapon.
Show HN / Bastardica: https://bastardica.mitpit.com
The new explainer video is just a prompt and a render farm.
The “film” is now a program the model wrote—a concrete collision of AI, art, and builder workflows.
launchvideo.io and Hacker News discussion: https://launchvideo.io/
The Netherlands just started building its own Microsoft.
A nation-state treating Microsoft as a geopolitical risk and answering with NixOS and open AI blocks: government as open-source project.
DAWO.community and strong Hacker News spike: https://www.dawo.community/en/
Evidence is currently the project itself rather than a strong independent news report.