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Astronomers and regulators are drawing a line in the sky. The European Southern Observatory is calling for a hard cap of one hundred thousand faint satellites in Earth orbit, warning that the growing swarms from commercial operators are increasingly threatening ground-based astronomical research. It's a collision between the economics of connectivity and the science of looking up.
On the software licensing front, a sharp piece circulating today takes a hard look at what happens when open source projects quietly shift to licenses like the Server Side Public License or the Business Source License. The argument is straightforward: when a company changes the rules after developers have built their workflows around a tool, trust erodes in ways that are genuinely difficult to repair. The open source social contract, it turns out, has fine print.
And in medical research, a study published in JAMA Psychiatry is adding weight to the case for psilocybin as a treatment for major depression that hasn't responded to conventional therapies. The findings point to meaningful efficacy, though researchers are careful to note that safety questions and clinical context still matter enormously. The conversation around psychedelic medicine continues to grow more serious.
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