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• SpaceX workers reportedly put in over 80-hour work weeks in Elon Musk's race to colonize Mars.
• A Reuters investigation looked at 600 work injuries at SpaceX from 2014 to present.
• Musk has long been known for his "maniacal sense of urgency."

Some SpaceX workers resorted to taking Adderall stimulants in order to keep up with the pace of work

Moscow has sought deals to buy back helicopter engines it previously sold to other countries. The second-largest supplier of military equipment behind the US, Russia is ramping up military production to replenish the arsenal depleted in its war against Ukraine.

• Billionaire investor Ron Baron said he's never owned a government bond before.
• That's due to rising inflation and the growing mountain of US debt, he suggested.
• Inflation could slash the value of money in half every 15 years, Baron estimated.

Billionaire investor Ron Baron said he has never owned a bond

Apple will dispute the European Union’s latest crackdown on Big Tech by appealing the decision to regulate iMessage and the App Store as anticompetitive services, according to Bloomberg.

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As Vergecast listeners know, I am deeply and forever fascinated by the Tesla Cybertruck’s wiper — it is one of the silliest design compromises in automotive history on a vehicle that is itself a rolling design compromise. I love it so much.

Anyway, I’ve been asking listeners to send in

• Grimes paid multiple process servers to try to deliver a lawsuit to Musk.
• One process server used a jet-tracking to try to serve Elon Musk with the custody papers.
• Grimes is suing Musk for

The creators of For All Mankind, the alternate history show depicting a world in which the USSR won the space race, tell us what's in store in its epic fourth season. Season 4 debuts Friday, November 10, 2023 on Apple TV+.

• Israel has confirmed the first operational use of its Arrow-3 system to intercept an enemy missile.
• Initially deployed in 2017, Arrow-3 is the top layer of Israel's sophisticated air-defense network. 
• Arrow works with the Iron Dome and David's Sling, as well as US-made Patriot batteries, to defend Israel's skies.

Israel has confirmed the

Qualcomm is scrapping plans to offer a satellite SOS feature for Android phones that would have rivaled the one offered by Apple on its latest iPhones. The feature, Snapdragon Satellite, was announced in partnership with the satellite communications company Iridium in January. Now, just 10 months later, the plan is already dead.

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Update: All the online backlash that Microsoft received finally worked. They got rid of the survey that users were forced to take every time they would quit the OneDrive app. They also remarked that it was just a test. In a statement that they gave to The Verge, it said, “Between Nov. 1 and 8, a small subset of…

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It’s been a good week for console deals. Earlier this week, the Asus ROG Ally fell to a new all-time low and the PlayStation 5 bundle with Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 dropped to $499 ($70 off). Now, Dell’s offering the black-and-white Nintendo Switch OLED console for $349.99