The European Space Agency and Pokémon Company International will launch a Europe-wide exhibition and digital event for World Space Week 2026, featuring a Pikachu plush that spent 67 days in orbit.
Vercel expands Spend Management to Enterprise Flexible Commitment plans, allowing budget controls without extra cost, with optional deployment pauses and notifications.
UC Berkeley historian Trevor Jackson traces capitalism’s 300-year evolution in a 101-second video, arguing its rise was neither inevitable nor intentional.
Comedian and filmmaker W. Kamau Bell discussed AI’s influence on creativity and communication during a UC Berkeley symposium, warning against unchecked automation and corporate control of technology.
Microsoft highlights that despite AI-driven advancements in cyberattacks, traditional security weaknesses remain critical vulnerabilities that adversaries exploit with greater speed and persistence.
Vercel’s v0 now supports reading npm credentials from shared environment variables, enabling teams to install private packages directly in projects.
Google Cloud introduced cross-cloud caching in preview to accelerate multi-cloud analytics by locally caching frequently accessed data, reducing remote transfers and costs for enterprises querying distributed datasets.
NASA-supported COSI gamma-ray telescope assembly completed at UC Berkeley, marking a milestone for studying cosmic antimatter and stellar explosions.
Google expands its AI & Economy Research Program with Nobel Laureate Philippe Aghion and leading economists to study AI’s impact on jobs, productivity, and global adoption through new leadership and open-access data.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured NGC 4698, a spiral galaxy 55 million light-years away, exhibiting unusual structural and rotational misalignment in its central region.
CISA concluded Cyber Storm X, a four-day national cybersecurity exercise involving 2,000 participants from public and private sectors to test responses to a simulated nation-state cyberattack on critical infrastructure.
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day highlights Messier 33, a spiral galaxy in the Triangulum constellation, showcasing its structure and star-forming regions.
RTX companies are deploying AI and data analytics to modernize aircraft maintenance, reducing inspection time and improving predictive accuracy across engines and nacelles.
A remote code execution flaw in libheif, an AVIF image decoder, was disclosed and fixed through coordinated efforts by Hacktron, Vercel, Next.js, and upstream maintainers in August 2026.
Vercel CLI now enables sub-second static artifact deployments, skipping builds for eligible files and providing live URLs instantly.
NASA selected SpaceX to launch the StarBurst gamma-ray detector aboard a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2028, aiming to study neutron star mergers and short gamma-ray bursts.
The UN System Data Commons launches as an open, AI-ready platform integrating global statistics from UN agencies into a single searchable resource to streamline analysis and policy-making.
Vercel Sandbox now supports running Harbor evaluations, including Terminal-Bench and other benchmarks, with enhanced isolation and credential handling via Firecracker microVMs and AI Gateway integration.
NASA invites U.S. media to cover SpaceX’s 35th resupply launch to the International Space Station, targeting October from Cape Canaveral, delivering science payloads and solar array hardware.
Vercel’s skills CLI now integrates with Notion, allowing teams to manage agent skills directly in Notion databases without requiring a Git repository.
U.S. Senators launched the bipartisan Senate Creators Caucus to advocate for digital creators as small businesses, addressing policy gaps and fostering direct dialogue with lawmakers.
Babcock delivered its AI-powered Nomad signal intelligence platform to the UK Ministry of Defence under an urgent operational requirement, enhancing front-line military intelligence and situational awareness.
NASA named its first space shuttle Enterprise in 1976 after a public campaign, honoring the Star Trek starship, though it never flew in space.
Microsoft details its internal AI transformation, sharing measurable gains and a playbook to guide other organizations in adopting AI without repeating early missteps.
Babcock and DCE will collaborate on uncrewed ground vehicle systems for UK and international defence customers, combining manufacturing, integration, and robotic expertise.
Microsoft outlines a five-principle framework for AI in education, launching a privacy standard with the American Federation of Teachers and committing to educator-led product design and training.
Vercel is reducing storage retention for Hobby projects to free up space, keeping only the three most recent deployments of each type and deleting older ones immediately if over the 10GB limit.
Mem0 launches as a native Vercel Marketplace integration, enabling AI agents and apps to retain long-term memory across user sessions with automated provisioning and billing.
A new U.S. survey of over 1,000 teens finds most use AI weekly as a study partner rather than a shortcut, while calling for earlier digital literacy classes.
NASA’s Integrated Medical Model (IMM) uses computational modeling to forecast health risks for Moon and Mars missions, guiding medical kit design and emergency protocols.