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Russia is escalating its confrontation with the West in orbit. According to reporting from Meduza, Russian spacecraft are actively pursuing satellites belonging to companies supporting Ukraine, with Starlink explicitly put on notice. It is a reminder that the new frontier of warfare is not just on the ground — it is four hundred kilometers above it.
Closer to Earth, a proposal called EU Inc was meant to give European startups a single, harmonized corporate structure across the continent — a kind of one-stop shop for founders tired of navigating twenty-seven different legal systems. But the initiative has stalled after the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs failed to bring it to a vote, leaving founders frustrated and the promise of a unified startup Europe on hold once again.
And on a lighter note from the developer community, a solo creator posted to Hacker News this week promoting a twenty-in-one mobile game they built independently, linking directly to the Google Play store. It drew almost no traction — one point, zero comments — but it is a small, human story about someone shipping something into the world and hoping it finds an audience.
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