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Salon is shutting down after 31 years
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Published 11/5/2026 4:08:14 PM
Salon is shutting down after 31 years
Salon says its publishing model is ‘no longer sustainable.’
Salon says its publishing model is ‘no longer sustainable.’
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Salon launched 31 years ago as one of the first online-only news magazine outlets, and it announced today in an unsigned post that it’s ceasing publication.
The company said that the “business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly over the years,” and it decided that its publishing model is “no longer sustainable.” It didn’t go into detail about why, but many websites are grappling with “Google Zero” and the impact of AI tools. When reached for comment, Salon general manager Amanda Wolfe pointed The Verge to today’s announcement post.
“Thirty-one years is a remarkable run, but what matters most is what happened during those years: the journalism, the ideas, the voices, the conversations and the community that grew around them,” Salon said in its post. “Salon helped demonstrate what digital journalism could be and could become. We hope that legacy will continue to matter long after today.”
On Bluesky, Salon chief content officer Erin Keane says that the editorial archive will “stay live for now.”
Current Salon owner Find.co acquired Salon in 2023 and describes itself as a “Performance Marketing Ecosystem transforming crypto marketing with performance and precision.”
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Blue Origin had been aiming for a launch at the end of this year after a launchpad explosion in May, but now it’s reportedly targeting January.
Blue Origin had been aiming for a launch at the end of this year after a launchpad explosion in May, but now it’s reportedly targeting January.
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Blue Origin plans to do its next New Glenn rocket launch in January 2027, according to CNBC and the Financial Times, which cite a memo from CEO Dave Limp sent to staff. The new timeline follows a May launchpad explosion that damaged Blue Origin’s New Glenn launchpad ahead of a flight that would have brought Amazon Leo satellites into space.
In October, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos told Fox News that the company was aiming for a December New Glenn launch, joking that it could be “probably December 31st.” The new, revised launch window is “about 10 days later than Blue Origin’s earlier launch target,” CNBC reports. Limp also reportedly cited bad weather as having an effect on the launchpad rebuilding process.
“This small adjustment doesn’t diminish what we’ve accomplished or the importance of the work still ahead,” Limp wrote in his memo, per CNBC and the FT. “Returning New Glenn to flight remains our top priority — it’s worth it.”
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The X-70 Fractal is expected to take flight within the next two years.
The X-70 Fractal is expected to take flight within the next two years.
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Yesterday NASA announced the latest addition to its X-series of experimental aircraft that have included the Bell X-1 that first broke the sound barrier nearly 80 years ago, and the more recent X-59 quiet supersonic demonstrator. The new X-70 Fractal is designed to be a “high-performance, highly adaptable research platform” that NASA can use as a testbed for the development and testing of next-generation aviation technologies.
The agency only released an AI-generated image of the X-70 shrouded in smoke and shadows, but confirmed several of the plane’s capabilities. It will be a crewed aircraft with a cruising speed of Mach .75 that can reach altitudes of up to 45,000 feet and will provide an “operational range exceeding about 1,726 miles.” The X-70 will be able to carry up to 2,000 pounds of experimental equipment either inside or outside the aircraft, and will feature “advanced, rapidly reconfigurable flight-control technology that will allow NASA to explore aircraft maneuverability in ways never before demonstrated in crewed flight.”
“The X-70 Fractal gives NASA a crewed, high-performance platform to test advanced flight-control, maneuverability, and other cutting-edge technologies in real flight,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “Its modular design and ability to rapidly swap internal and external payloads will keep our teams flying, learning, and moving quickly from one experiment to the next. We expect her first flight under the NASA banner within the next two years, and X-70 is just one part of this new beginning for aeronautics.”
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