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Eutelsat LEO revenue rockets 84% as governments cool on Starlink

Tue, 2025-08-05 12:00
OneWeb constellation may be smaller, but it's suddenly looking like a safer bet for some

Paris-based Eutelsat is reporting rocketing revenues in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite services, driven partly by an uptick in interest from governments seeking to reduce reliance on US providers.…

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How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier

Tue, 2025-08-05 11:15
You can build your own robot CHILD for under $1,000

Before humanoid robots walk among us, they'll be operated remotely, in part to gather the training data to develop Vision-Language-Action Models for autonomous, nonlethal bipedal ambulation.…

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Hacker summer camp: What to expect from BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON

Tue, 2025-08-05 10:45
These are the conference events to keep an eye on. You can even stream a few

The security industry is hitting Vegas hard this week with three conferences in Sin City that bring the world's largest collection of security pros together for the annual summer camp.…

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TSMC launches legal action against insiders accused of trade secret theft

Tue, 2025-08-05 10:00
Chipmaker said it caught the ‘unauthorized activity’ early

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has launched legal proceedings against an unknown number of employees as it investigates a potential breach of trade secrets.…

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Microsoft promises to eventually make WinUI 'truly open source'

Tue, 2025-08-05 09:15
Developer community skeptical following 'long silent stagnation' of the framework and accompanying SDK

Microsoft lead software engineer Beth Pan has stated that WinUI, the modern user interface framework for Windows, will be made "truly open source," though no date is yet set because of deep entanglements with proprietary code in the operating system.…

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Skyrora wins green light to lob rockets from Scotland

Tue, 2025-08-05 08:30
Launch license issued for suborbital Skylark L

The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has granted British rocketeer Skyrora a launch operator license.…

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Germany and Japan teamed their ISS robots for seek-and-photograph mission

Tue, 2025-08-05 07:26
Bot built by Airbus and IBM recognized astronaut’s voice and issued instructions to camera drone

Japanese space agency JAXA and Germany’s DLR have conducted what they say is the first collaboration between independently developed robots on the International Space Station.…

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Lyft and Baidu plan Eurobocab launch, starting in UK and Germany next year

Tue, 2025-08-05 06:28
Using the Apollo vehicles that already offer autonomous rides across China

Rideshare challenger Lyft and China’s Baidu plan to bring robo-cabs to the UK and Europe next year.…

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Amazon’s Kuiper satellite broadband to offer commercial services from mid-2026

Tue, 2025-08-05 04:32
We know this because it just won a big client – Australia – which says that’s when it will start selling connections

Amazon’s Project Kuiper space broadband service will be ready for commercial services “from the middle of 2026” according to NBN Co, the operator of Australia’s National Broadband Network.…

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Foxconn says EV sales are so slow it's converting a factory to build AI servers instead

Tue, 2025-08-05 02:31
Cites low demand and overcapacity for electric cars on the same day Tesla gives Elon Musk $29 billion for similar reasons

Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant Foxconn has sold its US electric vehicle factory and will use the land to make AI servers instead.…

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Antivirus vendors fail to spot persistent, nasty, stealthy Linux backdoor

Tue, 2025-08-05 00:01
'Plague' malware has been around for months without tripping alarms

Researchers at German infosec services company Nextron Threat have spotted malware that creates a highly-persistent Linux backdoor and say antivirus engines do not flag the code as malicious.…

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Google agrees to pause AI workloads to protect the grid when power demand spikes

Mon, 2025-08-04 22:58
On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries

Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday.…

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SonicWall investigates 'cyber incidents,' including ransomware targeting suspected 0-day

Mon, 2025-08-04 21:40
Bypassing MFA and deploying ransomware…sounds like something that rhymes with 'schmero-day'

SonicWall on Monday confirmed that it's investigating a rash of ransomware activity targeting its firewall devices, following multiple reports of a zero-day bug under active exploit in its VPNs.…

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Perplexity AI accused of scraping content against websites’ will with unlisted IP ranges

Mon, 2025-08-04 20:40
Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders

Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites' no-crawl directives.…

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Forget the Space Force! Trump needs to create a Cyber Force, says think tank

Mon, 2025-08-04 20:07
One new military branch per term would have to be some sort of record

The US Space Force won't be the only new military branch Donald Trump has created if forthcoming recommendations from a group of retired military and civilian leadership end up being adopted. They want the President to form a US "Cyber Force" too. …

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AI going critical: Hyundai to help build nuclear-powered datacenter in Texas

Mon, 2025-08-04 19:26
Fermi America will also have 4GW of gas generators for the Amarillo 'HyperGrid'

Nuclear power is enjoying something of a second renaissance in the US as hyperscalers grapple with AI's seemingly insatiable appetite for power.…

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Python-powered malware snags hundreds of credit cards, 200K passwords, and 4M cookies

Mon, 2025-08-04 18:33
PXA Stealer pilfers data from nearly 40 browsers, including Chrome

More than 4,000 victims across 62 countries have been infected by stealthy infostealers pilfering people's passwords, credit card numbers, and browser cookies, which are then sold to other criminals on Telegram-based marketplaces.…

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IT firing spree: Shrinking job market looks even worse after BLS revisions

Mon, 2025-08-04 16:42
The payroll growth we thought we experienced in May and June? Gone, like tears in the rain

The US IT jobs market hasn't exactly been robust thus far in 2025, and downward revisions to May and June's Bureau of Labor Statistics data mean IT jobs lost in July are part of an even deeper sector slowdown than previously believed.…

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Mars says hello as NASA's Europa Clipper warms up radar

Mon, 2025-08-04 15:31
Instrument works fine. Now, about those transistors

NASA's Europa Clipper probe checked out its radar as the spacecraft hurtled past Mars on the way to Jupiter's moon Europa.…

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Mozilla flags phishing wave aimed at hijacking trusted Firefox add-ons

Mon, 2025-08-04 14:28
Devs told to exercise 'extreme caution' with emails disguised as account update prompts

Mozilla is warning of an ongoing phishing campaign targeting developers of Firefox add-ons.…

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