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BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury

Eight year after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches

After nearly eight years, ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo spacecraft is finally nearing Mercury, as engineers begin the arrival sequence by jettisoning the power module that got it this far.

The spacecraft stack separated from the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) on September 3 at around 1400 CEST. After a tense few minutes, controllers confirmed that a preliminary Doppler signal had been detected, indicating that the MTM had separated successfully; by 1552 CEST, it was confirmed that signals had been picked up, indicating that all had gone to plan. The solar panels of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) were charging the spacecraft's batteries.

The next stage involves dropping into orbit around Mercury on November 21. Then the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) – aka Mio – will be released between December 9 and 10, and a week...

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Will the Xbox Helix Have a Disc Drive?

After PlayStation announced that it will end physical disc production in 2028, many have taken that to mean that the PlayStation 6 will no longer have a disc drive. It’s a good assumption to make, however, it’s still an assumption. We know next to nothing about the PS6.

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Why Feature Flags Should Be Treated as Production Infrastructure

Beginning with a very simple concept - to turn on/off new functionality using a switch - many developers use feature flags to prevent needing to deploy the application again. The initial implementation may seem harmless at this stage (see below): if (featureFlags.newCheckout) { return <NewCheckout />;}return <

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The Demotion Ladder: A Year of Governing Claude Code

I thought that if I wrote my feedback down, the agent would work through it like a checklist. And for a while that theory held. Every time I caught something in review, I'd write the rule into a doc, and the next run would be a bit better

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Industrial MLOps as a Distributed Operating Model

Industrial MLOps is the discipline of managing ML systems across distributed environments with different trust boundaries, operational constraints, and availability requirements. When people talk about MLOps, they often imagine a fairly straightforward lifecycle. A team trains a model, validates it, packages it, and deploys it to production. Even if the

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Will the Xbox Helix Have a Disc Drive?

Why Feature Flags Should Be Treated as Production Infrastructure

The Demotion Ladder: A Year of Governing Claude Code

Industrial MLOps as a Distributed Operating Model