Category: General
Beck: Iridium acquisition the “logical next step” for Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab’s chief executive says the company’s acquisition of Iridium was the “logical next step” in his ambitions to tap into the lucrative space services market....
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NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Preps for Spacewalk
Flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) helps flight engineer Chris Williams of NASA as he tries on his spacesuit on June 23, 2026,...
Read moreLinux Kernel 7.2 Hits 43 Million Lines: Verified with 4 Code Counters
Linux 7.2-rc1 hits 42.58 million source lines. Verified on commit dc59e4fea9d8. We ran cloc, tokei, scc, and wc -l and explain exactly why each tool gives...
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Mapping Earth’s Observations, featuring Betsy Ford
NASA’s Earth-observing satellites track an enormous range of phenomena: how aerosols move through the atmosphere, how moisture descends through soil, how land-cover shifts over decades. It’s...
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[$] Xsnow "protestware" in Debian
The xsnow application, which generates an animated snowfall effect (and other pleasant diversions) for X11 desktops, does not seem like an obvious channel for political statements....
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Rainbow Six Siege developers go on strike through July to protest mass layoffs and RTO policies at Ubisoft Barcelona
Staff at Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege support studio Ubisoft Barcelona are going on strike across July in response to mass layoffs. They'll be downing tools...
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Mustang Panda Uses Zoho WorkDrive as Command Channel in Indian Government Attacks
The China-aligned espionage group Mustang Panda is running two campaigns against the Indian government and hydropower targets, deploying new malware and turning a legitimate cloud service into its...
Read moreOpen source maintainership in the age of AI (Kubernetes blog)
The Kubernetes project has published a blog post explaining its AI policy: The main problem is that AI has made generating code fast but there has...
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NextSTEP-3 A: Lunar Enabling Technology
Solicitation Number: 80GRC026R0008 May 19, 2026 – Synopsis issued June 29, 2026 – Draft BAA and Appendix A Issued | News Release NASA issued a draft Broad Agency Announcement under NextSTEP‑3, Appendix A, on...
Read moreNASA Seeks Industry Input to Accelerate Lunar Surface Technologies
Long-term lunar exploration requires technology, infrastructure, and operations that function together cohesively on the surface of the Moon. To accelerate the development of key lunar surface systems and...
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