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GoDaddy: 3 Key Takeaways for Long-Term Investors

Normalized EBITDA margins expanded to more than 33%, giving management room to fund growth and return capital through buybacks.

  • GoDaddy's AI-driven Airo product booked over $100 million in annualized revenue
  • Airo's growth helped offset losses from migrating legacy website products
  • Normalized EBITDA margin expanded to 33%, generating $481 million in quarterly free cash flow

Finance & Markets

U.S. Intelligence: China Could Put Laser Weapons in Space by 2030

A new United States intelligence report warns that China is developing energy weapons and spaceplanes that it could use for military operations in outer space, with the capability of using…

  • China could deploy directed-energy weapons in orbit by 2030, per DIA report
  • US satellites vulnerable to China's space-based energy weapons
  • US Space Force emphasizes survivability in space

Tech

Recycling ANSI Art: Tracing the Origins of BBS Logon Screens

BBS-era "door" games are preserved by the site Break Into Chat, along with their history. Now the site's actually traced the origins of several ANSI art screens in the 1980s and "how different people…

  • Fire Escape BBS in St. Louis popularized ANSI art in 1980s
  • Artists like Michael C. Ling and Violet Stymacks created logon screens
  • Violet Stymacks' screens used by 500+ BBS systems by late 1990s

Science

NASA Seeks Proposals for Reboosting the Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope "will plunge back into the atmosphere in the early-to-mid-2030s," reports Ars Technica. So now NASA has released a Request For Information (RFI) "asking commercial companies…

  • NASA issues RFI for Hubble reboost proposals.
  • Contractors must provide launch vehicle, servicing spacecraft.
  • Hubble's orbit loss accelerated since 2002 shuttle retirement.
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