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Head of Russian Space Program Touches Down in Texas

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-21 12:11:57

As US-Russia relations deteriorate — with president Donald Trump escalating his economic policy threats to force a ceasefire deal with Ukraine — the two countries' intertwined space exploration programs remain as strange as ever. Look no further than Texas, where the two nations' space agencies are looking to hang out in person. As Reuters reports, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Bokanov, arrived in Houston this week to meet with interim NASA administrator and transportatio

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SpaceX faces two new lawsuits alleging safety‐related retaliation

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-21 12:47:20

When longtime supervisor Robert Markert warned SpaceX leaders that one part of the rocket fairing recovery process could “easily cause serious injury or death,” he alleges he was ignored because “it was the more economical solution,” according to a recently filed lawsuit. A few months later, he was out of the job. Markert is one of two former SpaceX employees who have filed separate wrongful-termination lawsuits, both of which were removed to federal court earlier this month. The two complaints

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A short post on short trains

news.ycombinator.com Shaked Koplewitz 2025-12-21 10:15:07

Epistemic status: Main part is well-supported but may have some minor errors. The parts about potential future lines are inherently speculative. Small Train is Good Train A while ago, I wrote about how elevated trains are the greatest urbanism cheat code, increasing the amount of track miles you can build per dollar (or per year) by a factor of 2-4. And while I don’t have anything else on that order of magnitude, I do have one more easy 20-50% gain: Run shorter trains. The basic idea is simpl

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Australia’s First Rocket Crashes and Burns Seconds After Liftoff

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-22 12:25:00

The first Australian-made orbital rocket to launch from the land down under barely took off for its inaugural test flight, ending roughly 14 seconds after liftoff. Australian startup Gilmour Space launched its Eris rocket for the first time from the company’s Bowen Orbital Spaceport in northern Queensland at 6:35 p.m. ET on Tuesday (8:35 a.m. on Wednesday local time). The first orbital rocket designed and manufactured in Australia had a less-than-ideal first showing. Footage showed Eris struggl

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Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-22 05:30:43

Researchers needed less than 48 hours with Google’s new Gemini CLI coding agent to devise an exploit that made a default configuration of the tool surreptitiously exfiltrate sensitive data to an attacker-controlled server. Gemini CLI is a free, open-source AI tool that works in the terminal environment to help developers write code. It plugs into Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google’s most advanced model for coding and simulated reasoning. Gemini CLI is similar to Gemini Code Assist except that it creates or

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Space Force bets on commercial entrants in $4B satcom contest

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-23 22:55:38

American warfighters need jam-proof communications, and the Space Force is planning to spend hundreds of millions to ensure they have them. As part of that effort, the service established the Protected Tactical Satcom program to build out secure battlefield communications via satellites. The Space Force has already awarded contracts to defense primes Boeing and Northrop Grumman to develop prototype payloads for satellites heading to far-away geostationary orbit. Now, the program is entering a

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SpaceX's Crew-11 Is Heading to the ISS on July 31. Here's How to Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 02:05:00

Who's ready for another space launch? The next cohort of astronauts is making their way to the International Space Station on Thursday, and the event will be live-streamed in more places than usual. SpaceX is sending up Crew-11 to relieve Crew-10. You may remember Crew-10 as being the crew that relieved Crew-9, which had two stowaways on board who had been stuck in space for months. The launch is scheduled for Thursday at 12:09 p.m. EST from Kennedy's Launch Complex 39A, barring any last-minute

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SpaceX Is Gearing Up for Starship’s Next Flight After a String of Explosive Setbacks

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-24 12:45:18

SpaceX is prepping the Starship rocket for its upcoming test flight, expected to take place in early August. The rocket’s last few launches did not go smoothly, leaving SpaceX in a bit of a slump as it rushes to develop a fully reusable Starship. The company desperately needs a win ahead of its planned uncrewed Mars launch in 2026, or at least for the rocket not to end up as burnt scraps at the bottom of the ocean. This week, SpaceX transported Starship to its launch site in Starbase, Texas, fo

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Former NASA Boss Says We May Be Destroying America’s Only Shot at Space

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-25 02:13:31

One of the driving personalities behind the Hubble Space Telescope is sounding the alarm on president Donald Trump's disastrous space policy. That former NASA associate administrator for spaceflight is Joe Rothenberg, who warns that the agency's current predicament — mass layoffs and deferred resignations resulting in a loss of 20 percent of its workforce and a complete overhaul of agency culture — may already be too bad to fix. "What is happening at NASA has long term and potentially unrecove

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Space Force’s Secretive X-37B Is Returning to Space With New Tech

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-25 03:55:45

Just a few months after wrapping up its seventh test flight in orbit, Space Force’s experimental vehicle known as X-37B is ready for another go. For its upcoming mission, the spaceplane will test new technologies meant to bolster military capabilities in space, such as a navigational sensor that could replace GPS. The U.S. Space Force is set to launch the Boeing-built orbital test vehicle, designated as OTV-8, on August 21 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket

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A Secretive US Space Plane Will Soon Test Quantum Navigation Technology

wired.com Eric Berger 2025-12-25 17:30:00

The X-37B, the US Space Force’s secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle–shaped vehicle on the program’s eighth mission next month. The launch of the vehicle, on a Falcon 9 rocket, is scheduled to occur no earlier than August 21 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There are two active X-37Bs in the Space Force fleet, both built by Boeing. The first made its debut flight in April 2010. Since then, the tw

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Google Workspace is rolling out a security update to stop token stealing attacks

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-25 17:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google Workspace is launching a new security measure to help prevent the same type of account takeover attack that impacted Linus Tech Tips. The feature, which is rolling out in beta for Chrome users on Windows, is designed to block bad actors from remotely stealing the cookies that keep you logged into your Workspace account. Google calls the feat

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Wish you could escape the planet? Too bad life in space would suck

news.ycombinator.com Levi Stallings 2025-12-25 21:38:46

Climate change, war and fascism got you down? Wish you could buy a ticket on the Europa Clipper spacecraft that’s on its way to check if there’s living slime on a Jupiterian moon? Before you decide to leave Earth behind and move to outer space, consider the life of an astronaut on the International Space Station. Imagine cohabitating with eight other people in an enclosed area the size of a large airplane. You live on a strict schedule broken into 15 minute increments, using a red marker on a c

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Union Pacific to buy Norfolk in $85B mega U.S. railroad deal

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 03:36:51

Union Pacific said on Tuesday it would buy smaller rival Norfolk Southern in an $85 billion deal, to create the nation's first coast-to-coast freight rail operator and reshape the movement of goods from grains to autos across the country. If approved, the deal would combine Union Pacific's stronghold in the western two-thirds of the U.S. with Norfolk's 19,500-mile network that primarily spans 22 eastern states. This would mark the largest-ever buyout in the sector, merging Union Pacific, the b

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Europe sets its sights on multi-billion-euro gigawatt factories as it plays catch-up on AI

cnbc.com April Roach 2025-12-26 12:02:29

Data storage tapes are stored at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) facility at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which will house the U.S. supercomputer to be powered by Nvidia's forthcoming Vera Rubin chips, in Berkeley, California, U.S. May 29, 2025. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Europe is setting its sights on gigawatt factories in a bid to bolster its lagging artificial intelligence industry and meet the challenges of a rapidly-changing sector. Buzz aroun

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Could aluminium become the packaging 'champion'?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-26 17:04:41

Could aluminium become the packaging 'champion'? 57 minutes ago Share Save MaryLou Costa Technology Reporter Share Save Meadow Some packaging firms are betting on aluminium In front of me is a line-up of aluminium cans, but not a drink in sight. Instead, these cans have been designed to hold toiletries like shampoo, shower gel and hand wash, condiments like ketchup and household cleaning products. I'm at the London research and development centre for Meadow, a start-up that has developed a ne

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Has 5G lived up to the hype? People are united in this survey.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-26 17:07:20

Eric Zeman / Android Authority 5G phones have been on the market for over five years, and I vividly remember how the entire industry hyped up this tech. From industrial applications and remote surgery to unforeseen advancements and cars that talk to each other, companies breathlessly declared how 5G would change the world. Now that the dust has settled, colleague Rob Triggs conducted a deep dive to find out whether 5G actually lived up to the hype. He also asked readers for their opinion, and

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How much pollution does AI create? Mistral breaks it down

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-27 17:55:00

What just happened? Mistral AI, a Paris-based venture focused on developing open-weight, open-source large language models, is now contributing to the AI discourse with a comprehensive lifecycle analysis of one of its models – guided by the same principles of openness that define its work. Mistral recently published an analysis of the environmental impact of one of its large language models. As chatbots and other AI-powered technologies become increasingly embedded in the global economy, Mistra

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Firefly Aerospace sets IPO range that would value rocket maker at $5.5 billion

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-27 17:06:25

Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim sits for an interview at the Firefly Aerospace mission operations center in Leander, Texas, on July 9, 2025. Firefly Aerospace will price shares at $35 to $39 each in its upcoming initial public offering, a deal that would value the rocket maker at about $5.5 billion. The Texas-based space company said in an updated prospectus Monday that it's planning to sell about 16.2 million shares. The offering could raise up to $631.8 million. Earlier this month, Firefly

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Elon Musk Is Furious That People Are Launching So Many Satellites, Even Though He's Personally Responsible for 60 Percent of All Satellites Currently in Space

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-28 02:43:14

SpaceX has launched over 9,000 satellites into orbit, and the vast majority of them are still in operation today. As a result of that massive constellation, the Elon Musk-led firm controls over 60 percent of all active satellites currently in orbit. And the company's actively working to launch tens of thousands more, in an effort to bring Starlink broadband satellite internet to the world, efforts that critics say could severely impact the world of astronomy and potentially result in catastroph

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Smithsonian Air and Space opens halls for “milestone” and “future” artifacts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-28 03:54:35

The National Air and Space Museum welcomed the public into five more of its renovated galleries on Monday, including two showcasing spaceflight artifacts. The new exhibitions shine modern light on returning displays and restore the museum's almost 50-year-old legacy of adding objects that made history but have yet to become historical. Visitors can again enter through the "Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall," which has been closed for the past three years and has on display some of the museum's m

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A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-28 12:38:12

The X-37B, the US Space Force's secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle-shaped vehicle on the program's eighth mission next month. The launch of the vehicle, on a Falcon 9 rocket, is scheduled to occur no earlier than August 21 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There are two active X-37Bs in the Space Force fleet, both built by Boeing. The first made its debut flight in April 2010. Since then, the tw

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These Are the First FireSat Images for Finding Wildfires From Space

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-28 20:51:00

At Google I/O in May, Google revealed that it's working with the Earth Fire Alliance on FireSat, a program that combines new high-resolution satellites with AI analysis to pinpoint wildfires in their earliest stages and help responders knock them down before they grow. This week the alliance released the first images captured by the initial satellite, showing how fires as small as 5-by-5 meters -- about the size of a classroom -- can be detected from space. FireSat identified this small roadsid

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Ars spoke with the military’s chief orbital traffic cop—here’s what we learned

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-28 21:00:45

Agrawal was in the room, too. "I was on the crew that needed to count the pieces," he told Ars. "I didn’t know the significance of what was happening until after many years, but the Chinese had clearly changed the nature of the space environment." The 2007 anti-satellite test also clearly changed the trajectory of Agrawal's career. We present part of our discussion with Agrawal below, and we'll share the rest of the conversation tomorrow. The text has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity

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These Are the First FireSat Images for Finding Wildfires from Space

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 08:51:03

At Google I/O in May, Google revealed that it's working with the Earth Fire Alliance on FireSat, a program that combines new high-resolution satellites with AI analysis to pinpoint wildfires in their earliest stages and help responders knock them down before they grow. This week the alliance released the first images captured by the initial satellite, showing how fires as small as 5-by-5 meters -- about the size of a classroom -- can be detected from space. FireSat identified this small roadsid

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16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 08:12:35

Sixteen Colors is an online archive for ANSI and ASCII artpacks. The artform was originally intended for display on computer textmode consoles. It gained popularity in the early nineties with the rise of dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). At one point artists started to group together and release their work in collections released monthly, these collection are called artpacks. Rivalry resulted in fierce competition between these artgroups which only boosted activity. ACiD and iCE are example

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Scientists Find Evidence That Original Life on Earth Was Assembled From Material in Space

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-28 16:00:55

The molecules that form the building blocks to life may be far more common in space than once thought, according to researchers from the Max Planck Institute. Their work, published in The Astrophysical Journal, reports the detection of over a dozen types of complex organic molecules swimming closely around a protostar in the constellation Orion, suggesting that the chemicals can survive the violent processes that give birth to stars and thus may abound in space, instead of having to wait for a

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The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 21:03:01

The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner. Every now and then, while exploring a new programming language, I inevitably stumble upon a heated debate, often buried deep in a GitHub issue thread, where contributors are passionately arguing over whether the language’s formatter should default to tabs or spaces. Over the past few months, as I’ve been immersing myself in Zig, I encountered one such discussion. It got me thinking: After decades of writing code, how i

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Tabs vs. Spaces: The War Is Over

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 03:03:01

The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner. Every now and then, while exploring a new programming language, I inevitably stumble upon a heated debate, often buried deep in a GitHub issue thread, where contributors are passionately arguing over whether the language’s formatter should default to tabs or spaces. Over the past few months, as I’ve been immersing myself in Zig, I encountered one such discussion. It got me thinking: After decades of writing code, how i

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Elon Musk Swipes Back at Trump After Apparent Peace Offering

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-30 08:20:05

Yesterday, President Trump seemed to offer an olive branch to his former “first buddy,” Elon Musk, amidst their ongoing spat. In a post made to Truth Social, Trump claimed that he didn’t wish any harm on Elon or his businesses. “Everyone is stating that I will destroy Elon’s companies by taking away some, if not all, of the large-scale subsidies he receives from the U.S. Government. This is not so! I want Elon, and all businesses within our Country, to THRIVE, in fact, THRIVE like never before!”

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Head of Russian Space Program Touches Down in Texas

SpaceX faces two new lawsuits alleging safety‐related retaliation

A short post on short trains

Australia’s First Rocket Crashes and Burns Seconds After Liftoff

Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands

Space Force bets on commercial entrants in $4B satcom contest

SpaceX's Crew-11 Is Heading to the ISS on July 31. Here's How to Watch

SpaceX Is Gearing Up for Starship’s Next Flight After a String of Explosive Setbacks

Former NASA Boss Says We May Be Destroying America’s Only Shot at Space

Space Force’s Secretive X-37B Is Returning to Space With New Tech

A Secretive US Space Plane Will Soon Test Quantum Navigation Technology

Google Workspace is rolling out a security update to stop token stealing attacks

Wish you could escape the planet? Too bad life in space would suck

Union Pacific to buy Norfolk in $85B mega U.S. railroad deal

Europe sets its sights on multi-billion-euro gigawatt factories as it plays catch-up on AI

Could aluminium become the packaging 'champion'?

Has 5G lived up to the hype? People are united in this survey.

How much pollution does AI create? Mistral breaks it down

Firefly Aerospace sets IPO range that would value rocket maker at $5.5 billion

Elon Musk Is Furious That People Are Launching So Many Satellites, Even Though He's Personally Responsible for 60 Percent of All Satellites Currently in Space

Smithsonian Air and Space opens halls for “milestone” and “future” artifacts

A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology

These Are the First FireSat Images for Finding Wildfires From Space

Ars spoke with the military’s chief orbital traffic cop—here’s what we learned

These Are the First FireSat Images for Finding Wildfires from Space

16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

Scientists Find Evidence That Original Life on Earth Was Assembled From Material in Space

The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious

Tabs vs. Spaces: The War Is Over

Elon Musk Swipes Back at Trump After Apparent Peace Offering

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