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Rocket Lab has agreed to acquire satellite communications company Iridium in a deal worth approximately eight billion dollars, creating what could become the most serious challenger yet to Elon Musk's Starlink. The combined company would bring together rockets, satellites, spectrum rights, and roughly two and a half million active subscribers under one roof — a vertically integrated space business with real reach into military and commercial communications markets.
Shifting closer to earth, a thread gaining traction on Hacker News is asking a question a lot of developers seem reluctant to say out loud: is AI actually boring right now? The post argues that most teams are building the same retrieval-augmented, wrapper-on-a-model products, and wonders whether anything genuinely novel is happening beneath the surface. It's a fair provocation, and the silence of agreement in the comments may be the most telling response of all.
And on the tools front, a developer named Rob has released Contextify, a local app that indexes every Claude Code and Codex session on your machine into a single searchable database. The idea is simple — your AI coding history shouldn't be siloed by which tool you happened to use that day. Whether it catches on depends on how many developers are actually switching between the two, but the underlying problem it solves is real.
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