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427 stories · page 37 of 48The Roman telescope reached the assembly platform ahead of a launch set for 30 August
Nancy Grace Roman now sits on a work platform at Kennedy Space Center, moved there by cranes for final assembly and testing. Launch is scheduled no earlier than 30 August 2026, and the target is a point about 1.6 million kilometers from Earth.
Read →Klarna finances the machine behind "buy now, pay later" in Germany
Klarna signed a two-year, 900 million euro agreement that, per the company, will support up to 5 billion euros of consumer credit in Germany. The money behind the buy-now-pay-later button comes from outside - from capital the company lined up in advance.
Read →Mistral released a model that navigates a robot with just one camera
On July 8, Mistral announced Robostral Navigate - its first model for spatial robot navigation. The news is something else. The expensive half of the hardware bill disappears: the laser rangefinder and the depth sensors.
Read →Cloudflare showed a consensus that holds where the classic one breaks
330 data centers around the world, agreeing on the same thing at the same time - Cloudflare Research showed how: the Meerkat service, built on the QuePaxa algorithm, with about 10 times higher throughput than Raft under a bad network, per the company.
Read →NVIDIA: its open model runs 10 times cheaper than closed ones on the same task
NVIDIA claims its open model Nemotron 3 Ultra beats closed ones on price: about 10 times cheaper to run, with the highest accuracy among open models. LangChain has already tuned its agent framework Deep Agents specifically for it.
Read →Runway shipped one API for all of its media models
Adobe, ElevenLabs and Figma now go through the same single door. Runway announced Runway Dev - a platform with one API to all of its models for image, video, audio and live real-time characters.
Read →Ubuntu patched a pile of holes in Apache - the kind of fix nobody notices until it's too late
Ubuntu tightened up Apache with one patch that closes 12 holes at once. All three supported LTS versions are affected. There's one action: you update.
Read →ESA updated the software on a probe 140 million kilometers from Earth
The European Space Agency uploaded a software upgrade to the Hera probe while it's flying about 140 million km from us. The update brings online the remaining instruments and the autonomous navigation ahead of its encounter with a pair of asteroids this fall.
Read →In one day, agents got their own processor, their own identity, and their own attackers
On 7 July 2026, three unconnected announcements landed on the same day: NVIDIA unveiled a processor designed around agentic workloads; Vercel bought Better Auth to build identity for agents; and CISA confirmed active exploitation of Langflow - a platform agentic workflows run on. Infrastructure, identity, attack.
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