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June 09, 2026

Daily Tech News 9 June 2026

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Eric Berger, the last sane man at Ars Technica, puts things into perspective: Over the past five years, a single Falcon 9 rocket - the same rocket, just recovered after its 35th launch - has lofted more payload into orbit than all the single-use rockets of competitor United Launch Alliance combined. (Ars Technica)

The little booster that could, B 1067, completed its mission safely after delivering 29 more satellites into orbit. 35 sequential reuses was seen as something of a boundary, but they've sailed right past it, at several miles per second.
xAI is seen as more of a datacenter REIT - a real estate investment trust - than a frontier AI lab. (Martin Alderson)

The key distinction seems to be that xAI is making money. Lots of it. Deals to lease unused capacity to Anthropic and Google will pay for xAI's entire investment in 18 months.

Tech News

Well, that's dumb.
GitHub has nuked more than 70 Microsoft code repositories, not by accident, but because they were compromised. (The Register)

May you live in stupid times.
Apple's M5 Ultra could make an appearance at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference - WWDC. (WCCFTech)

Wait, when's WWDC this year? Now? And did the M5 Ultra make an appearance? No. What kind of story is this?

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I had twenty-four blackbirds sitting right here. Where have they gone? I was going to teach them piano.

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