Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year

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"If this was easy, everybody else would be doing it."…

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  • Reported by Ars Technica and published Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:28:36 UTC.

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  1. Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year

  2. Amazon is phasing out Fire Tablets because they weren’t ‘giving customers what they were asking for’

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  4. Everything Amazon has announced so far in October 2026

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  6. SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute

  7. Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed

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