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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 27m
Rocket Lab has signed 20 more Electron launches for Synspective, its largest commercial Electron deal yet. That brings Synspective’s total to 47 contracted launches. rocketlabcorp.com/updates/rock...
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Rocket Lab Secures Largest-Ever Electron Commercial Deal: 20-Launch Contract for Synspective | Rocket Lab
The deal marks Rocket Lab’s single largest commercial launch contract for Electron to date, reinforcing Electron’s position as the world’s most in-demand rocket for small satellite constellation deplo...
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Semafor @semafor.com · 2h
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 4h
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Patrick C Miller @patrickcmiller.bsky.social · 1h
FBI to ShinyHunters: 'We know how to find you' www.theregister.com/security/202...
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 2h
Before connecting your inbox and files, it’s worth understanding what you’re handing over. A few practical thoughts on getting started safely: johnwlittle.com/agents-for-e...
Ami, a blue-faced robot, sits at a wooden desk using a laptop, with a mug and folder of papers nearby
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 13h
Inside Man: How Chinese spies used lies, love and betrayal to target the Federal Reserve
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Inside Man: How Chinese spies used lies, love and betrayal to target the Federal Reserve
A CNBC investigation shows how former Fed advisor John Rogers became entangled with a man U.S. officials identify as a Chinese intelligence operative.
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WIRED @wired.com · 4h
OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too. www.wired.com/story/ai-age...
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The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here
OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 5h
My Kanban board project from a year ago has kind of blown up. It’s now KANBI OS: writing, projects, planning, and more. The app runs in your browser from a single hosted site (or locally), while your workspace data is saved encrypted on your own machine.
KANBI OS 2.6.0 welcome screen in white and blue. The headline reads “Your workspace. Right on your computer.” Features include Projects & Calendar, Writer & Journal, Bluesky & IRC, and an optional agent. A Welcome back panel has an empty passcode field and an Unlock with security key button.
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 5h
Rocket Lab completed its 97th Electron launch on Sept. 26, delivering Synspective’s 13th StriX satellite to orbit. It was Rocket Lab’s 18th launch of 2026. rocketlabcorp.com/updates/miss...
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MISSION SUCCESS: Rocket Lab Launches 97th Electron Mission | Rocket Lab
Mahia, New Zealand. 26 September, 2026 –  Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today launched its latest dedicated mission for Earth-monitoring ...
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Rocket Lab @rocketlabcorp.com · 28/03/2026
Electron is the world's most frequently launched small-lift orbital rocket, with tonight's launch for @esa.int continuing that legacy of providing regular and reliable launch for our global mission partners. 🌏 85th mission overall 🚀6th launch in three months 🛰️#1 small sat launcher
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Rocket Lab @rocketlabcorp.com · 01/07/2025
🛰️Design locked 🔒 We’ve completed Critical Design Review for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer constellation. We’re now moving into full-scale production of 18 spacecraft to support the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. Read more bit.ly/4l5e5cL
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SpaceNews @spacenewsinc.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Rocket Lab launches second Electron within 48 hours A Rocket Lab Electron placed an undisclosed satellite into orbit June 28 on the company’s second launch within 48 hours and fourth this month.
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Rocket Lab launches second Electron within 48 hours
A Rocket Lab Electron placed an undisclosed satellite into orbit June 28 on the company’s second launch within 48 hours and fourth this month.
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Rocket Lab @rocketlabcorp.com · 27/06/2025
Our next Electron rocket is lined up at Launch Complex 1 for launch later today - our second mission in less than 48 hours from the same site 🚀🚀 The launch window for 'Symphony In The Stars' opens: ⏰NZT | 6:45 p.m. ⏰UTC | 06:45 ⏰EDT | 2:45 a.m. ⏰PDT | 11:45 p.m.
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Rocket Lab @rocketlabcorp.com · 26/06/2025
Electron is vertical on the launch pad in preparation for this morning’s mission for HawkEye 360. 📍 Launch site: LC-1 Pad A 🛰️ Payload: 4x satellites 🎯 Orbit: 520km LEO 🚀 Launch window opens: 5:00 am NZT / 17:00 UTC Tune into the live broadcast at T-20 minutes: rocketlabcorp.com/live-stream/
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🍁🍂 🎃 Diva for the Season 💚💙🏈🫶👠👑 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Perfect!
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 17/06/2025
Thanks. I've built a personal system for automating model edits and builds. I'm working to consolidate a lot of the different components and may make it available - but not likely to be very soon.
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 17/06/2025
Did you launch a simple web server?
Screenshot of model deck instructions
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Rocket Lab @rocketlabcorp.com · 16/06/2025
Next on the pad at LC-1 🚀 ‘Symphony In The Stars’ will deploy a single satellite to a 650km orbit for a confidential commercial customer at the end of this week. Launch window opens NET June 20th. More info: bit.ly/3xAxsql
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 15/06/2025
Working with LLMs closely for an extended period is to be constantly awed by both their intelligence and stupidity.
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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Language models may not get us to “superintelligence”, but they’re definitely already powerful enough to create very socially and economically destabilizing technologies so it doesn’t really matter. We have to make the world ready for that.
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Christian Thiels @christianthiels.eurosky.social · 15/06/2025
"Massive Stealth Flying Wing Emerges At Secretive Chinese Base This appears to be China's largest high-altitude, long-endurance drone, and one that has clear low observable qualities." @twz.com h/t @alxluck.bsky.social www.twz.com/air/massive-...
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Massive Stealth Flying Wing Emerges At Secretive Chinese Base
It's possible we are seeing a very large high-flying stealth drone or China's long awaited H-20 stealth bomber.
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 15/06/2025
Beefing up my AI log assistant tool. It proactively alerts me to system issues and I can chat with it about the activities of my various agents.
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The Economist @economist.com · 15/06/2025
What happened to Austin Tice? He vanished in Syria over a decade ago, but questions remain. One man may have the answer econ.trib.al/WeoWyxr
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Shining light on America’s missing man in Syria
A top official in the Assad regime says it seized the American
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CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies @csis.org · 13/06/2025
"Given Israel’s unilateral decision to strike Iran, Tehran will be reluctant to take actions that draw Gulf States and the United States into a broader war," write CSIS Futures Lab experts. Read more on Iran's options for retaliating against Israel: www.csis.org/analysis/ira...
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Iran’s Options for Retaliating Against Israel
Iran faces a critical decision in responding to Israel’s unprecedented attacks; with an increasingly narrow options, the likely option will be a choice of missile and drone retaliation directly target...
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 13/06/2025
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I Taught an AI to Read My Logs (So I Don't Have To)
I built an AI assistant that reads system logs and explains what's happening in plain language instead of technical jargon. Transforms monitoring from tedious manual scanning into proactive, conversat...
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 13/06/2025
On the bright side, this is an excellent opportunity to fine tune an AI-powered automated intelligence platform...
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 13/06/2025
The platform I'm building generates a ton of log entries so I created a custom model and script that runs in terminal and updates me, informally, on the system status every 5 minutes. I can ask it questions about the logs as well.
screenshot of a chat with a custom LLM
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Reuters @reuters.com · 12/06/2025
Exclusive: The role of Elon Musk's SpaceX in an ambitious new US missile defense system is in question following the dramatic feud last week between the billionaire entrepreneur and President Donald Trump, according to three people familiar with the project. reut.rs/4045Zsl
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Exclusive: After Trump feud, role of Musk's SpaceX in Golden Dome missile shield in question
The role of Elon Musk's SpaceX in an ambitious new U.S. missile defense system is in question following the dramatic feud last week between the billionaire entrepreneur and President Donald Trump, according to three people familiar with the project.
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 12/06/2025
AI Search Agents Redefined: Agentic Research, MCP, & Tool Calling www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUUz...
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AI Search Agents Redefined: Agentic Research, MCP, & Tool Calling
YouTube video by IBM Technology
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 12/06/2025
Learn to collaborate with AI systems effectively, efficiently, ethically, and safely www.anthropic.com/ai-fluency
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Introduction to AI Fluency
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 12/06/2025
The Mac Studio M3 Ultra cranking away in the middle of a multi agent process that takes several minutes to execute. Power consumption is 🤏
MacTop screenshot showing power consumption of a Mac Studio
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Why throw manpower at problems when AI can deliver working software before lunch? warontherocks.com/20...
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Coding Defense Solutions on the Fly with AI - War on the Rocks
Two weeks ago, a P-8 aviator asked if I could make a tool to help plan flight schedules when conducting operations against maneuvering submarines. The
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German Marshall Fund @gmfus.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🕊️ "Peace is not a deal we make. It is a right we defend." #BrusselsForum 🇧🇪 Maxime Prévot, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs for European Affairs calls for a long-term peace plan for future generations.
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Patrick C Miller @patrickcmiller.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
NATO chief calls for five times more air defenses increase to deter Russia
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NATO chief calls for five times more air defenses increase to deter Russia
Mark Rutte also appeared to accept that the US will go through with plans to withdraw its forces from Europe, but in a way that won't leave "capability gaps."
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 12/06/2025
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Solving the Stale Knowledge Problem in AI Intelligence Analysis
With a little creativity, AI intelligence systems can overcome their fundamental limitation of frozen training data through curated knowledge bases and systematic verification processes that maintain ...
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 11/06/2025
Autonomous Drone from TU Delft Defeats Human Champions in Historic Racing First www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz2i...
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Autonomous Drone from TU Delft Defeats Human Champions in Historic Racing First
YouTube video by MAVLab TU Delft
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 11/06/2025
"For the first time in history, you can hear what a 2nd stage sounds like with our new live audio from space. We use structure born vibe to recreate audio. Listen for stage sep, electric pumps spool up and ignition." - Peter Beck
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 11/06/2025
Livestream starting now www.youtube.com/watch?v=PplS...
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Rocket Lab - 'The Mountain God Guards' Launch
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Rocket Lab @rocketlabcorp.com · 11/06/2025
Set your alarm for our next mission⏰Our launch operators will be on console overnight to prepare Electron for its 66th launch and latest constellation deployment for iQPS. Launch window opens: 🚀 June 12, 3:15 a.m. NZT 🚀 June 11, 15:15 UTC 🚀 June 11, 11:15 a.m. EDT 🚀 June 11, 8:15 a.m. PDT
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NPR @npr.org · 10/06/2025
Born in 1938, Forsyth served as a Royal Air Force pilot before becoming a journalist. He covered the attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle, which inspired The Day of the Jackal. n.pr/3FFEFdb
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'Day of the Jackal' author Frederick Forsyth dies at 86
Born in 1938, Forsyth served as a Royal Air Force pilot before becoming a journalist. He covered the attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle, which inspired The Day of the Jackal.
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 10/06/2025
A great primer on model size from IBM. Two years ago we were struggling to get predictable performance out of small models and now I typically find that 8b is the sweet spot for even some of my more complex workflows/agents www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wwn...
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Small vs. Large AI Models: Trade-offs & Use Cases Explained
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 07/06/2025
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Scaling Helix - Logistics
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 07/06/2025
o3 mightily beats Gemini, Opus 4 and others in the game of Diplomacy only Gemini was able to win even one game, due to o3’s “ruthless” strategies o3: ruthless Gemini Pro: alliance builder Opus 4: overly honest www.reddit.com/r/singularit...
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From the singularity community on Reddit: o3 is the top AI Diplomacy player, followed by Gemini 2.5 Pro
Explore this post and more from the singularity community
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NPR @npr.org · 07/06/2025
The Russia's Future channel, launched by Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya and Reporters Without Borders, began broadcasting Wednesday, on what would have been the late Russian activist's 49th birthday.
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A new satellite TV channel allows Alexei Navalny's videos to reach Russian audiences
The Russia's Future channel, launched by Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya and Reporters Without Borders, began broadcasting Wednesday, on what would have been the late Russian activist's 49th birthday.
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 06/06/2025
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'No human hands': NGA circulates AI-generated intel, director says - Breaking Defense
NGA puts a "template" on the products that "literally acknowledges … what you are looking at has not been touched by human hands,” said Director Frank Whitworth. “It's important [for] combat commander...
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
WaPo - Cutbacks at Radio Free Asia and the Voice of America have allowed China to fill a programming void and expand the reach of its talking points. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…
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Chinese propaganda surges as the U.S. defunds Radio Free Asia
Beijing expanded its state propaganda, including to the persecuted Tibetan and Uyghur minorities, as RFA pulled back.
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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
A bumper crop of questions from subscribers which we have tried to answer - including for me Ukraine, Gaza and NATO and for Sam prospects for Labour and Reform, small boats, and education with a late entry on the Trump-Musk fight. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/answering-...
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Answering your questions
On Trump vs Musk, Labour's challenges, Reform's prospects, schools and immigration policy, Ukraine, Israel and much more
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