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From games to biology and beyond: 10 years of AlphaGo’s impact
Ten years since AlphaGo, we explore how it is catalyzing scientific discovery and paving a path to AGI.
Monday, 9 March 2026
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
The Markup
It was John Wayne’s political club. Now it’s spending millions on online influence
The Lincoln Media Foundation has spent big to push ‘local’ conservative messaging
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
McDonnell's Military Test Space Station (MTSS)
In the early 1960s several companies studied concepts of military space stations. Hans Dolfing explores what's now known about one of those concepts from recently declassified documents.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Reforging Vulcan
This was supposed to be the year that United Launch Alliance finally ramped up launches of its Vulcan rocket to serve government and commercial customers. Jeff Foust reports on how those plans are now in doubt after an incident on Vulcan's latest launch, just as the company is going through a…
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Big wing bird: NASA's WB-57 gets grounded
A NASA WB-57 aircraft was damaged in a gear-up landing at a Houston airport in January. Dwayne Day examines the long and unusual history of that aircraft, used by NASA for a variety of missions.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Robert Goddard and the dawn of the rocket age
This month marks the centennial of the first flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard. Bruce McCandless III and Emily Carney recall that milestone and its significance.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Review: Why Space?
The commercial space industry has grown in capabilities and importance over recent years. Jeff Foust reviews a book by a longtime space advocate who describes what he sees as the underlying purpose that industry can enable beyond just making money.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
What Replo learned optimizing 100+ billion events in ClickHouse
Replo uses ClickHouse to analyze 100+ billion events in real time, keeping analytics dashboards fast and responsive for 4,000+ Shopify merchants.
OpenAI News
OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo
OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform that helps enterprises identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AI systems during development.
Huntress
Top 10 Worst Places to Store a Password | Huntress
Check out the top 10 worst places to store your password, as commented by IT and information security professionals.
Hugging Face Blog
Ulysses Sequence Parallelism: Training with Million-Token Contexts
Hugging Face Blog
LeRobot v0.5.0: Scaling Every Dimension
Martin Fowler / Overreacted / Kent C. Dodds / Josh Comeau
Offloading FFmpeg with Cloudflare
How I moved Call Kent podcast episode processing off my primary Fly.io app server and onto Cloudflare Queues and Containers: what broke, what I missed, and whether it was worth the complexity.