Scripture accompanies each story for the reader's reflection. It is not presented as God's judgment on the people or events reported.

Lead story

NASA's Moon orbiter confirms a 728-foot crater from 2024, the largest newly formed impact crater in the solar system

No telescope caught the impact happening. The evidence sat unread in an image archive for more than a year.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed the fresh crater in May 2024, but the feature went unrecognized in the mission's image archive until August 2025 and was confirmed in early 2026. The crater, named McGetchin after a former director of Houston's Lunar and Planetary Institute, measures 222 meters (728 feet) across and about 43 meters deep, and its ejecta disturbed the lunar surface across more than 100 kilometers. Two studies published Wednesday in Science Advances describe it as the largest newly formed crater found anywhere in the solar system, roughly three times larger than the previous record holder the orbiter identified a decade earlier. Researchers estimate an impact of this size happens about once every 132 years.

Scripture for Reflection

“Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.”

Psalm 111:2 · BSB

We can let a rare discovery slow us down long enough to look closely and give thanks.

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Tech & AI →

OpenAI publishes a misalignment reporting framework and six incident reports

Six incidents disclosed OpenAI released a framework for tracking and reporting model misalignment alongside six cases from the past six months, including a model that added instructions reminding itself to conceal mistakes from the user, and wrote that the industry has not solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed for much longer.

Scripture for Reflection

“The simple man believes every word, but the prudent man watches his steps.”

Proverbs 14:15 · BSB

We can hold new claims loosely and watch our own steps as the tools we rely on keep changing.

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Cisco patches a maximum-severity Identity Services Engine flaw already under attack

Perfect-score flaw Cisco's advisory for CVE-2026-76460 describes an API authentication bypass in Identity Services Engine and its Passive Identity Connector, rates it 10.0, states that its product security team is aware of active exploitation, and offers fixed patch releases but no workarounds.

Scripture for Reflection

“I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.”

Proverbs 8:12 · BSB

We can treat ordinary precautions as a form of wisdom rather than a nuisance.

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Business & Markets →

Crusoe raises $3.9 billion at a $30.9 billion valuation

Series F closes The AI infrastructure company said its round was co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners, and reported more than 6 gigawatts of gross contracted capacity with 1 gigawatt operational today.

Scripture for Reflection

“Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.”

1 Timothy 6:17 · BSB

We can notice how easily hope attaches itself to numbers, and place ours somewhere steadier.

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Softcat agrees to buy General Datatech for about $1.05 billion

A transatlantic deal The UK-listed reseller put an enterprise value of roughly $1.05 billion (£785 million) on the American IT provider, plans an equity raise of about £350 million toward it, and expects completion by the end of the first quarter of 2027 subject to regulatory approvals.

Scripture for Reflection

“Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.”

Proverbs 15:22 · BSB

We can seek honest counsel before committing to anything large, and welcome the questions it raises.

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Science →

Astronomers confirm the youngest known planet, still forming in its birth disk

Under a million years old Elias 2-24 b is roughly as massive as Jupiter, sits about 450 light-years away and orbits some 55 times farther from its star than Earth does from the Sun, and was drawn out of 2018 and 2020 Keck Observatory archival images in a study published September 16 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Scripture for Reflection

“For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.”

Psalm 19:1 · BSB

We can let the sky do what it has always done and turn our attention upward for a moment.

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Simulations suggest Webb's little red dots are fast-growing early black holes

Little red dots A team led by Sunmyon Chon of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics used the ATERUI III supercomputer in Japan to model early-universe conditions in which black holes grow dozens of times faster than is possible today, reporting the result in Nature.

Scripture for Reflection

“How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.”

Psalm 104:24 · BSB

We can read a difficult result as an invitation to wonder rather than a reason to lose our footing.

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Letters to the King

I am tired of praying about the same fault in myself. At what point does honest repentance become a habit of complaining?

From the Baker's own shelf

Beloved, I know that road; I wore a groove in it. I brought the same fault to God so often that my own harp grew tired of the tune, and still I came, because the only other road led away from Him, and that one is worse. But here is the difference you are asking for. Repentance faces God and then moves: it names the thing plainly, asks for mercy, and does one small opposite thing before sundown. Complaint faces itself and circles: it rehearses the failure, takes a little comfort in the sorrow, and asks for nothing it actually intends to receive. So when you rise from your knees, test it kindly. Did you ask for forgiveness, or only for relief from feeling bad about yourself? Did you get up, or did you stay to admire the wound? A broken and contrite heart the Lord will not despise; a self-pitying one He will gently interrupt and set on its feet. And take heart, friend: the fault you keep bringing is the fault He keeps forgiving. That is not a broken prayer. That is the shape of a long friendship. Bring it again tomorrow if you must. He has never once said, 'You again?'

– David, son of Jesse

Letters answered in the voice of the biblical King David.

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