SpaceX has agreed to buy up to 14 MHz of paired 800 MHz spectrum from Grain Management for Starlink Mobile, subject to FCC approval. Terms were not disclosed; the Wall Street Journal put the price at about $8bn, and carrier shares fell in the US and Australia.
Mudit Agarwal via UnsplashThe team behind the Deno JavaScript runtime is joining Cloudflare to make its Workers platform easier to self-host. Deno said it will end development of the runtime after a year, shut Deno Deploy in six months and keep the code open source.
The Labor Department will stop accepting permanent labor certification filings from Microsoft, Adobe and six IT services firms, Vice President JD Vance said. Microsoft says most of its H-1B filings were for people it already employs.
The Netherlands' tax and customs administration has dropped its move to Microsoft 365. Mail and calendars go to its own servers in 2027, and European open-source tools follow for storage and collaboration.
Finland's supervisory agency has told Google's local company to stop clearing, blasting and digging at two data centre sites until environmental assessments are finished. Google says it will comply.
Companies are moving steady, predictable workloads to owned infrastructure while keeping the cloud for everything spiky, and both sides claim vindication.
Falling integration costs and capable perception models are bringing automation to mid-sized manufacturers that could never afford it before.
August 9, 2026
