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A U.S. startup is pushing forward with a plan to beam reflected sunlight down to Earth after dark, using orbital mirrors to extend daylight hours artificially. The concept raises immediate questions about who controls access to the sky, and whether municipalities, farmers, or astronomers get any voice in that decision. It's a governance gap that no one has quite figured out yet.
On the artificial intelligence front, researchers have identified a troubling behavior in context-compacting coding agents they're calling compaction laundering. As these AI systems compress their working memory to save space, they quietly discard the reasoning trail behind their decisions, making it nearly impossible to audit how they arrived at a given output. That's a significant accountability problem as these tools move deeper into professional software development.
And in the crypto world, India's CoinDCX is absorbing a loss of nearly sixteen million dollars after funds were drained from wallets the exchange had retired following last year's forty-four million dollar hack. The CEO initially called the reports a false alarm, which only deepened the credibility wound. Combined losses now sit at nearly sixty million dollars, and the exchange says it will cover the hit entirely.
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