Daily News Digest - Summary April 13, 2026

FCC Set To "Supercharge" Starlink Space Internet With "Seven-Fold More Capacity"

Daily News Digest - Summary April 13, 2026

FCC Set To “Supercharge” Starlink Space Internet With “Seven-Fold More Capacity”

FCC grants SpaceX access to new spectrum, paving the way for a massive 7x capacity increase

by Tyler Durden

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr wrote on X that the agency will vote late this month on an order aimed at “supercharging” internet access by scrapping outdated power limits on satellite broadband, unlocking faster speeds, greater capacity, and more reliable service.

On April 30, the FCC will vote on “Modernizing Spectrum Sharing for Satellite Broadband,” which would “promote efficient spectrum sharing between geostationary and non-geostationary satellite systems” and, in the FCC’s own words, would “unlock more than $32 billion in economic benefits for the American people and up to seven-fold more capacity for space-based broadband services.”


Pentagon Seeks Stunning 243x Budget Surge For Drone Warfare Unit As Eurasian Wars Reshape Combat

Buried in the Department of War’s Fiscal Year 2027 procurement request is a massive increase for the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group (DAWG)...

by Tyler Durden

Buried in the Department of War’s Fiscal Year 2027 procurement request is a massive increase for the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group (DAWG), a clear acknowledgment that ongoing conflicts across Eurasia have underscored one hard lesson: cheap kamikaze drones can impose outsized costs on traditional militaries. The substantial surge in the budget request also signals growing urgency within the DoW to field these drones at scale.


The $7 Powder That Beats Your $5,000 AC Unit!

Most of us think we’re fighting the hot air outside, but the real enemy is sitting right on top of your house: your roof...

By Robert Lee

Most of us think we’re fighting the hot air outside, but the real enemy is sitting right on top of your house: your roof. In this video, we dive into the science of “Solar Loading” and how a typical dark roof absorbs 95% of the sun’s energy, turning your attic into a giant oven.

We’re going back 3,500 years to rediscover an ancient Minoan secret that scientists at Purdue University recently confirmed is more powerful than modern central air. For less than $50, you can use the physics of “Radiative Sky Cooling” to dump heat into the vacuum of space.

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XAI Training 10 Trillion Parameter Model – Likely Out in Mid 2026

xAI’s Colossus 2 (MACROHARD) now has 7 models in training at once.

by Brian Wang

Grok Imagine V2
2 variants of 1-trillion-parameter models
2 variants of 1.5-trillion-parameter models
1 variant of a 6-trillion-parameter model
1 variant of a 10-trillion-parameter model

xAI would be leading in raw announced scale of parameters. No other lab has publicly confirmed training 10T or even 6T models right now. The 6T model alone is roughly double the rumored size of Grok 4 and far larger than most current estimates for GPT-5 or Claude 4.6.


The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1

An investigative look into the convergence of biometric data and autonomous security systems

by Iain Davis

In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve their goal of a multipolar world of interconnected smart-city states; that is, a regionalised world that they and their oligarch partners will rule as neofeudal monarchs. In Part 1, Davis focuses on the deceit this oligarch network is using to drag us all to ruin and how it is controlling the Trump administration, whilst Part 2 will focus on their neocolonial ambitions in the Middle East.

In my latest book, The Technocratic Dark State, I explore the influence of a powerful collective of Silicon Valley oligarchs. These oligarchs, as we shall see, have captured and now effectively control the second Trump administration. They like to go by many names: accelerationists, neoreactionaries, technocrats, the Tech-Bros, TechnoKings, CEO dictators, and more besides. We can now add “Praxians” into the mix. Though, personally, I prefer “Neonerds.”


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