6 hours ago · The European Space Agency (ESA) has inked a deal worth €862 million with Thales Alenia Space to develop a lunar lander. The lander, called Argonaut, is designed to carry cargo to the lunar surface and will consist of three parts: the Lunar Descent Element (LDE), which will be responsible for the journey to the Moon and landing on the lunar surface, a cargo platform which will provide an ...

1 day ago · Scientists analyzing samples from asteroid Bennu have found something remarkable: Despite being a cold, lifeless rubble pile that formed around 65 million years ago, it holds a rich inventory of organic molecules - key ingredients for life. The Nature Astronomy paper reports that Bennu contains 14 ...

2 days ago · An early morning post by US President Donald Trump caused some furrowed brows in the space community after he instructed Elon Musk to "go get" the crew of Boeing's Starliner, who are currently enjoying an unexpected stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In the post, Trump wrote: "I have just asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to 'go get' the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually ...

3 days ago · A murder case in Cleveland, Ohio, could collapse because the city's police relied on AI-based facial recognition software to obtain a search warrant. This despite a specific warning from the provider of that artificial intelligence – our old friends Clearview AI – that results from its facial recognition search software should not be "used as …

4 days ago · Scientists mistook Elon Musk's Tesla roadster for an asteroid in a debacle that highlights the problem of tracking near-Earth objects. Discovery of the suspected asteroid was announced in the Minor Planet Electronic Circular on January 2. However, the entry was swiftly deleted when space boffins realized it was actually the Tesla roadster launched on SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy mission. Less ...

3 days ago · US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has frozen nearly all foreign aid cash for a full-on government review, including funds to defend America's allies from cyberattacks as well as steer international computer security policies. The pause applies to "all US foreign assistance funded by or through the State Department and US Agency for International Development" while these programs undergo a ...

Jan 21, 2025 · China appears to have softened its stance on the possible sale of TikTok’s US operations and is now perhaps open to the idea. The change emerged in the daily briefing of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a daily Q&A between a Ministry spokesperson and media from around the world. Beijing ...

Jan 17, 2025 · Decades-old legislation requiring American telcos to lock down their systems to prevent foreign snoops from intercepting communications isn't mere decoration on the pages of law books – it actually means carriers need to secure their networks, the FCC has huffed. On Thursday, the US regulator ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Microsoft is releasing an out-of-band patch to deal with a problem that prevented some Windows Server 2022 machines from booting. KB5052819 is related to servers with two or more Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) nodes. Affected servers failed to start up. NUMA is a memory architecture commonly used in multiprocessing systems. In Windows Server, it is routinely used in systems with multi-core ...

Jul 12, 2024 · There's another way to go. New frameworks such as Shared Signals can help, alongside the judicious application of machine learning to identity threat detection and response systems (ITDR). And there's also digital, verifiable credentials which offer hope for a new approach to identity security that can keep users and organizations safer and better protected.