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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang found himself in an unusual spot this week when President Trump called him mid all-hands meeting, interrupting what should have been an internal company moment. Hours later, Trump posted congratulations on Truth Social about Nvidia's latest earnings, raising questions about the increasingly visible relationship between Silicon Valley's most powerful executive and the White House.
Staying with space news, the Artemis two crew received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor from President Trump at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen were recognized for their mission around the moon — a reminder that human spaceflight still commands genuine national attention even amid all the noise around commercial launches.
And on the developer side, a software engineer published a detailed account of making Rustdoc — the documentation tool for the Rust programming language — thirty-three percent faster in just one week. It is exactly the kind of unglamorous, methodical performance work that rarely makes headlines but quietly makes the tools millions of developers rely on every day significantly better.
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