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Eutelsat LEO revenue rockets 84% as governments cool on Starlink
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.…
How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier
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.…
Hacker summer camp: What to expect from BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON
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.…
TSMC launches legal action against insiders accused of trade secret theft
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has launched legal proceedings against an unknown number of employees as it investigates a potential breach of trade secrets.…
Microsoft promises to eventually make WinUI 'truly open source'
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.…
Skyrora wins green light to lob rockets from Scotland
The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has granted British rocketeer Skyrora a launch operator license.…
Germany and Japan teamed their ISS robots for seek-and-photograph mission
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.…
Lyft and Baidu plan Eurobocab launch, starting in UK and Germany next year
Rideshare challenger Lyft and China’s Baidu plan to bring robo-cabs to the UK and Europe next year.…
Amazon’s Kuiper satellite broadband to offer commercial services from mid-2026
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.…
Foxconn says EV sales are so slow it's converting a factory to build AI servers instead
Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant Foxconn has sold its US electric vehicle factory and will use the land to make AI servers instead.…
Antivirus vendors fail to spot persistent, nasty, stealthy Linux backdoor
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.…
Google agrees to pause AI workloads to protect the grid when power demand spikes
Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday.…
SonicWall investigates 'cyber incidents,' including ransomware targeting suspected 0-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.…
Perplexity AI accused of scraping content against websites’ will with unlisted IP ranges
Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites' no-crawl directives.…
Forget the Space Force! Trump needs to create a Cyber Force, says think tank
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. …
AI going critical: Hyundai to help build nuclear-powered datacenter in Texas
Nuclear power is enjoying something of a second renaissance in the US as hyperscalers grapple with AI's seemingly insatiable appetite for power.…
Python-powered malware snags hundreds of credit cards, 200K passwords, and 4M cookies
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.…
IT firing spree: Shrinking job market looks even worse after BLS revisions
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.…
Mars says hello as NASA's Europa Clipper warms up radar
NASA's Europa Clipper probe checked out its radar as the spacecraft hurtled past Mars on the way to Jupiter's moon Europa.…
Mozilla flags phishing wave aimed at hijacking trusted Firefox add-ons
Mozilla is warning of an ongoing phishing campaign targeting developers of Firefox add-ons.…