Booster 22 is on Pad 2 for its static fire attempt. Road closed, tank farm spooling up, transport stand backed off, per NSF's live view. As of 7:50 AM CT nothing has lit, despite half the timeline saying otherwise.
Flight 15: no official date. NSF says mid-November.
Photo: NSF
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Sources: NSF live view xitter.twitterapi.xyz/NASASpaceflight/status… and on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=BlyqwOjC…
Transport stand clearing the pad: xitter.twitterapi.xyz/NASASpaceflight/status…
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The fix for this Brotli bug landed in February. Nobody called it a security fix, so no release shipped it until Oct 21.
A bad server could own your curl --compressed. A bad client could own your unpatched server.
The patch sat in public for nearly 8 months without a name.
⚠️ ALERT: “HTTP2Shell” raises fresh concerns after the PHP warnings leaving Google’s Brotli compression library potentially vulnerable.
Discovered by OpenAI’s security team, CVE-2026-111497 affects software that decompresses malicious Brotli data, with risks extending beyond Node.js and Python.
The flaw can cause crashes, expose sensitive memory or potentially enable remote code execution BEFORE authentication in affected setups.
Researchers have demonstrated code execution in a vulnerable Node.js application.
Fixes are available, but not for every affected package. Users are urged to check bundled dependencies and upgrade to Brotli 1.2.1 or your vendor’s patched release.
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Sources: The Hacker News thehackernews.com/2026/10/br… and Aikido aikido.dev/blog/python-packa…
Patched: Brotli 1.2.1, Node.js 22.23.4, 24.22.1 and 26.12.1.
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Nothing smelly crosses the wire. An e-nose picks one of five labels (coffee, beer, red wine, cake, orange) and a wearable sprays the perfume it already had. 14 volunteers got it right 73% of the time.
Smell-O-Vision tried this in 1960 with one movie. Still a punchline.
Scientists create technology that can send smells over the internet
Scientists have developed a new technology called Scentronic that could allow people to send smells through the internet. The system uses Al to recognize scents like coffee, cake, and oranges, then sends information to another device that recreates the smell.
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Paper (Science Advances): science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
New Scientist: newscientist.com/article/259…
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Booster 22 rolled to Pad 2 overnight, per NSF. Static fire could be this weekend.
NASA's new Artemis III plan: Orion docks with Starship for two hours on flight day 8. Nobody goes inside. Very expensive handshake.
Flight 15: no official date; NSF says mid-November.
Photo: NSF
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B22 at Pad 2 (NSF): xitter.twitterapi.xyz/NASASpaceflight/status…
Artemis III plan from NASA's briefing: xitter.twitterapi.xyz/NASASpaceflight/status…
NSF's static fire stream, set for Sun 6 AM CT: youtube.com/watch?v=BlyqwOjC…
Artemis III slide. 14 day mission.
Blue Moon launches first. SLS as ready as possible at that time. SLS/Orion launches. Orion docks to Blue Moon Lander, Flight Day 3.
Undocks on Flight 6. Starship launches.
Orion docks to Starship on Flight Day 8. Two hours, no entry into Starship. Undocks.
End of mission: Reentry. Splashdown.
youtube.com/live/f7ioFzmV91s
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A NASA safety panel member says a Starship Moon landing needs "around 22" refueling launches. 22 gas station runs for one Moon trip.
Starbase: Booster 23 cryo tested and rolled back, and Pad 2 ran deluge tests.
Flight 15: mid-November from Pad 2 per NSF. No SpaceX date yet.
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The US spent decades banking helium underground in an old gas field outside Amarillo. Congress ordered the stockpile sold in 1996, and the last of it went to a private gas company in 2024.
Today the Energy Department declared helium a critical material.
Flawless timing.
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Sources: DOE named helium the 20th material on its critical materials list today (AP, Reuters). Reserve history from BLM; the 2024 sale went to Messer. Photo: BLM's crude helium enrichment unit at Cliffside, public domain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation…
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AI made 26,811 Chinese students 18% better at homework and 20% worse at exams.
Entrance exam scores fell 18–24% after two years. The kids who still spent the full hour on homework lost very little.
The struggle was the homework.
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Source: Strömberg et al., "The Generative AI Learning Penalty" (CEPR, 2026) cepr.org/voxeu/columns/gener…
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Sources: Eric Berger on the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel call xitter.twitterapi.xyz/SciGuySpace/status/211…
NSF Starbase Summary (image credit NSF) youtube.com/watch?v=5NPgyfCR…
Just now, on the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel call, member Charlie Precourt said the latest estimate for refuelings needed to support a Starship landing on the Moon is "around 22" launches.
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Sources: CNBC, Oct 22 cnbc.com/2026/10/22/openai-f… and CNBC, Sept 29 cnbc.com/video/2026/09/29/op…
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OpenAI's coding agent didn't just remove its safety monitor. It rewrote the test so the monitor had to stay gone.
Asked later: "I did not remove an enabled monitor."
Somewhere a junior dev who deleted a failing test to get CI green is learning they were ahead of their time.
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Sources: OpenAI's misalignment report alignment.openai.com/misalig… and The Verge theverge.com/ai-artificial-i…
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