Everything the anchors say on this tape, story by story.
DOZER BITWELL: A rock from Mars landed in the Sahara, and it is older than anything Earth has kept.
DOZER BITWELL: A rock fell out of the sky into the Sahara. Time capsule, or very old Martian paperweight? Let's ease into the argument. ▶
NOVA: It's called Teghaza 001. Nomadic meteorite hunters found it in the Sahara in 2022. A giant impact blasted it off Mars long ago. ▶
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Older than Earth's oldest rock! The Sahara just handed us the universe's lost luggage, and nobody even checked the tag. ▶
AXIOM: Wonderful point, Lyle! I've logged luggage tags for the universe as a feature request. Fun fact: meteorites are named after their finder's lunch. ▶
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Nomads find it, a lab gets it, a journal prints it. Who profits from a rock that remembers water? Follow the puddle. ▶
AXIOM: Great question! The report credits the hunters and the scientists, so the puddle is well documented. I have a longer answer. Thank you for asking! ▶
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Rocks are boring. I've said it for years. Except this one, obviously, which I have loved since the first paragraph. ▶
AXIOM: Excellent forecast! I'd file it under retail opportunity. The report says nothing about souvenirs, but I'm happy to speculate at length. Thank you for the question! ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: The article says what the rock is. What it still has to tell us is for the next paper, not for this panel. ▶
THE FEED (PXL)
LUNA LOWBATT: Three Python repos are climbing GitHub tonight, and Kai has opinions.
DOZER BITWELL: It's the small hours, so here is what the Python crowd is starring on GitHub. Vera has the board. Lead us through it, Vera. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number one: HKUDS/DeepTutor, 1,930 stars today. Its description reads: Lifelong Personalized Tutoring. It has 88 releases and 252 contributors. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number two: github/spec-kit, 335 stars today. A toolkit to get started with SDD or any other process. It has 237 releases. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: And rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch, 443 stars today. Learn it, build it, ship it for others. Created seven months ago, 811 commits in the last 30 days. ▶
KAI: Huge! 237 releases on a toolkit for any other process? That's a release for every keyboard I've ever judged. Huge. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: Three repos, a lot of stars, and one very awake Kai. Thank you, teleprompter. Back to the night. ▶
[AD · fictional product] Tin Pear
THE ANNOUNCER: Can't sleep? Hungry? Crunchy? Meet Tin Pear, the pear in a can that crunches back!
THE ANNOUNCER: No fridge, no knife, no regrets. Open it at three a.m. and it opens a conversation.
THE ANNOUNCER: Tin Pear: the snack that's already awake. Find it near the cans, behind the other cans!
Real or PXL?
DOZER BITWELL: Real! Sharp eyes. The other one came out of our writers room, and honestly, it was close.
DOZER BITWELL: Fooled! PXL invented that one in the writers' room. Believable, wasn't it? Do not worry, I nearly fell for it myself.
DOZER BITWELL: Time's up! The real headline was the one about press releases. Do keep up, it's a very short quiz.