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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR 2026-10-09 Leave Granola and get up to 12 months free of Wispr Flow Notetaker + Dictation (Sponsor) Paying for Granola? Switch to Wispr Flow and we cover the time left on your plan with Wispr credit, plus 3 bonus months. Up to 12 months free. Your follow-ups are only as good as your meeting notes. Wispr Flow Notetaker captures the meeting, then takes a second pass over the audio so names and terms come out right. The same subscription gives you voice dictation in every app you type in, on Mac and Windows. Upload your Granola receipt and we handle the rest. For eligible individual paid plans. Claim your free months | See how the switch works 📱 Big Tech & Startups SpaceX Makes Big Play to Become a Wireless Carrier (3 minute read) SpaceX will pay investment firm Grain Management about $8 billion in cash for US cellular spectrum licenses. The licenses will be for the 800-megahertz band, which is tailored for wireless service from cellphone towers rather than satellites. SpaceX says the new spectrum will help cover places satellite links can't reach. SpaceX still needs some terrestrial infrastructure to use the spectrum for mobile coverage. Apple Set to Debut Touch-Screen MacBook and New iPad Mini in Late October (2 minute read) Apple plans to introduce a touch-screen MacBook and a new iPad mini on or around October 27. The launch will include an online video presentation and an in-person component for the press. Apple will also hold an event next week to introduce its first smart home hub with a display, a new HomePod mini, and an updated Apple TV set-top box. It plans to introduce a home ecosystem that will include accessories from LG and Schneider Electric. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology The Start-Up That Wants to Build ‘Microrobots' With AI (8 minute read) Atomic Machines is building AI technology that can discover new ways of designing extremely small devices. It is building an automated manufacturing system that turns computer code into a physical device. The company aims to revamp the field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), tiny devices made of both electrical and mechanical components. These devices are traditionally manufactured like computer chips, but this limits the possibilities of the technology to the physical properties of a semiconductor. Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year (19 minute read) Amazon's Leo project is nearing several critical milestones. The company recently manufactured its 1,000th satellite and has reached the point where it can build a handful of satellites every day. The Vulcan's upcoming return-to-flight mission will carry Amazon Leo satellites, and another Vulcan rocket is currently being prepared to launch this year with more Amazon satellites. The company is just weeks away from offering a commercial space broadband service for the first time. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Your meeting notes, on us (Sponsor) Still paying for Granola? Switch to Wispr Flow and we cover the rest of your plan with credit, plus 3 bonus months. Up to 12 months free. Meeting notes and voice dictation in one subscription, on Mac and Windows. Claim your free months First look at Claude Code mods (spoiler: yes, use one now!) (3 minute read) You can now add panes, commands, and tool call rules to Claude Code with Mods. A mod is a plugin that changes how Claude Code looks and behaves. They can be used to add custom features to Claude Code. Mods run inside Claude Code, so they can do things that hooks, skills, status lines, and MCP servers can't, like redraw Claude Code's own interface, step into a tool call or request, and share data between hooks. Bootstrap 6 Alpha (16 minute read) Bootstrap 6 features a major overhaul to the project that modernizes it from the ground up with the Sass module system, support for more native browser APIs and elements, ESM-only JavaScript plug