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For the third time in a year, Russian hardware on the space station is leaking

Will this leak be blamed on “external impacts” as well? NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli looked out of the large windows on the International Space Station on Monday afternoon and saw that it was snowing in space. Well, not really snowing. But there were flakes flying by that looked a lot like flurries. They emanated from […]

Oyster fight: The humble sea creature could hold the key to restoring coastal waters. Developers hate it

Revitalizing oyster farms and wild oyster reefs could undo decades of environmental destruction on our coasts In the summers of the early 1970s, in the days before developers launched bidding wars over waterfront real estate, before the Delaware beaches drew long lines of tourists and traffic, the children living on Lewes Beach would perch in […]

Microsoft: Hackers target Azure cloud VMs via breached SQL servers

Hackers have been observed trying to breach cloud environments through Microsoft SQL Servers vulnerable to SQL injection. Microsoft’s security researchers report that this lateral movement technique has been previously seen in attacks on other services like VMs and Kubernetes clusters. However, this is the first time they have seen SQL Servers leveraged for this purpose. […]

Wi-fi 8: la nueva frontera de la conectividad inalábrica

La próxima generación de Wi-Fi, la Wi-Fi 8, promete abrir nuevas puertas en el mundo de la conectividad inalámbrica. Con la incorporación de tecnología de ondas milimétricas, esta nueva versión busca superar las limitaciones actuales y ofrecer un rendimiento sin precedentes. Desde su inicio, la tecnología Wi-Fi ha pasado por diversas fases de evolución, desde […]

Italian firm Jakala boosts product offering with Roibox acquisition

The acquisition aims to enhance customer engagement and optimise advertising campaigns by integrating Roibox’s data products. Roibox, a Riga-based provider of geospatial analytics for digital advertising, has been acquired by Italian business consulting and services firm Jakala. Financials of the deal remain undisclosed, but sources close to the matter indicate that Jakala has acquired a […]

Why can’t datacenter operators stop thinking about atomic power?

A job ad from Microsoft shows it’s looking to harness the power of the atom to fuel its growing datacenter footprint, but it’d hardly be the first. Redmond is looking for someone who “will be responsible for maturing and implementing a global Small Modular Reactor (SMR) and microreactor energy strategy.” Microsoft’s interest in SMRs isn’t […]

APT36 state hackers infect Android devices using YouTube app clones

The APT36 hacking group, aka ‘Transparent Tribe,’ has been observed using at least three Android apps that mimic YouTube to infect devices with their signature remote access trojan (RAT), ‘CapraRAT.’ Once the malware is installed on a victim’s device, it can harvest data, record audio and video, or access sensitive communication information, essentially operating like […]

Hydrogen aviation startup ZeroAvia lands largest funding round to date

Investor Airbus will partner with the company on certification pathways, hydrogen storage, and infrastructure ZeroAvia, one of the leading zero-emission aviation companies in the world, just announced its largest financing round to date. The funding round was co-led by Airbus, Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital, and NEOM. Other participants included Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Alaska […]

Webb finds molecule only made by living things in another world

Could this exoplanet be inhabited? While the James Webb Space Telescope observed the atmosphere of an alien world 120 light-years away, it picked up hints of a substance only made by living things — at least, that is, on Earth. This molecule, known as dimethyl sulfide, is primarily produced by phytoplankton, microscopic plant-like organisms in […]

Twitter spinoff Bluesky hits 1 million users

The X alternative has just hit a milestone, but it’s still not open to the public. Bluesky, one of the most notable alternatives to the platform formerly known as Twitter, has just hit a million users. That’s admittedly tiny compared to the number of users on major social networks, but it’s a big deal for […]