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AscendArc, founded by a former SpaceX engineer, says smaller geostationary satellites can deliver broadband at a fraction of today’s cost

A brief X post teases a multi-day rollout and a new API for deep people research, but docs, pricing, and target users are not yet public.

The shared post does not specify the track, but a SIGGRAPH nod signals traction inside the computer-graphics community.

In a YC Launch post, Arlo Industries says its distributed passive network tracks low-altitude drones and cruise missiles in 3D without emitting, following field tests with Ukrainian units and early partnerships in Europe and the U.S.

The focus app says it has 1M daily users and 10M installs; the new Opal adds Opal Score and Autofocus as Schlenker frames attention as the AI era’s bottleneck.

YC-backed Minicor says its deterministic RPA plus recovery agent can run desktop workflows at scale, with SOC 2/HIPAA and Citrix support for regulated rollouts.

RoboRank, a LeetCode-like benchmarking project for robotics at roborank.dev, will separate and open-source its evaluation environments, target VLAs and world models, and harden sandboxed code execution so researchers can contribute tasks and models in the open.

The June 15-21 event is fully remote and supported by partners including ElevenLabs, Songstats, LALAL.AI, and Cyanite, according to Replit's post on X.

YC-backed Chert is pitching a single API for blue-bubble threads with SMS/RCS fallback and CRM integrations, and says it will run outbound as a service for teams.

XRoboHub reports the line is live at an integrated Shenzhen facility, but capacity timing and T800 specs were not disclosed.

The company targets high-performing professionals, pairing FDA-cleared TMS with d-cycloserine and optional $200 per month maintenance sessions.

Michael Grinich unveiled auth.md with early support from Cloudflare and Firecrawl, giving apps a standard way to onboard AI agents without brittle browser hacks.

In a thread on X, Nav Toor said Frigate, an MIT-licensed NVR app, offers no cloud, no subscription, and privacy by default, citing 32,057 GitHub stars.

The public GitHub project under superset-sh is shipping agent skills, a Linear ticket draft flow, and editor UX tweaks, with 10.9k stars and nearly 2,900 commits.

Jam claims 2,000+ companies, developers, and operators already using the tool, after starting as a side project that devtool founders paid thousands to access.

Rai says ThineAI runs in the background to capture work and life context and return it on demand; early access is rolling out to iOS testers, with Android not live yet.

Austin Energy will dispatch a 40 MW fleet of home batteries from Base Power for peak shaving and price spikes, while homeowners get whole-home backup.

After a 3-2 vote to cancel Flock Safety's LPR contract, a dissenting councilmember vowed to propose banning phones, internet, and cameras across the 900-person town.

The team says an automated GCP suspension cascaded past Google to knock every Railway workload offline until early May 20.

Railway says it regained partial Google Cloud access and is working with support to restore workloads; at least one user reports app servers and databases down across projects; no ETA, with updates on X.

The company frames the system as a step toward hatching giant birds like the South Island moa and says it could extend to broader wildlife conservation.

Researchers tie a 22-minute mass publish from a compromised npm account to the same toolkit seen in the recent SAP-related incident, with CI and AI tool persistence.

A short X post frames Atlas as doing whole-body manipulation, shifting emphasis from acrobatics to moving real, awkward objects.

CancelFlow's site now outlines an embeddable retention flow that reads from Stripe via your publishable key, applies outcomes in Stripe, and supports A/B testing and full customization, with a 14-day free trial.