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NASA has offered new details on its lunar base ambitions, and the picture is equal parts ambitious and humbling. The agency is leaning heavily on commercial partners for rovers and cargo landers, while the astronauts themselves may be responsible for physically assembling the habitat — a reminder that the romance of space exploration often comes down to very human labor, with the economics still very much unproven.
From the cosmos to the archives — Der Spiegel has made Nazi party membership cards digitally searchable for the first time. The index, long held in German federal archives, contains records of millions of members. Making it publicly accessible is a significant historical reckoning, giving researchers and families the ability to verify or confront what relatives actually did during that era. The lies, as Spiegel put it, come to an end.
And in the world of enterprise software, a sharp piece from VentureBeat argues that AI agents aren't stalling because the models are weak — they're stalling because no one has figured out permissions. What can an agent access, on whose authority, and how does a company audit that? Workday is betting its existing governance infrastructure becomes the answer, which tells you something about where the real AI bottleneck lives.
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