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NASA astronaut comes home after circling Earth 3,920 times

Popular Science

Jonny Kim returned after eight months aboard the International Space Station. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. After 245 days in orbit aboard the International Space Station (ISS), one NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts have safely returned to Earth. NASA's Jonny Kim along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky landed near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on December 9, and are now undergoing the standard post-mission health screenings. Kim officially became an astronaut in 2017.


Hackers tricked ChatGPT, Grok and Google into helping them install malware

Engadget

GPU prices could follow RAM's big rise Using popular AI chatbots, attackers created search-friendly links that instructed a user to hack their own device. Ever since reporting earlier this year on how easy it is to trick an agentic browser, I've been following the intersections between modern AI and old-school scams. Now, there's a new convergence on the horizon: hackers are apparently using AI prompts to seed Google search results with dangerous commands. When executed by unknowing users, these commands prompt computers to give the hackers the access they need to install malware. The warning comes by way of a recent report from detection-and-response firm Huntress.



Navy secretary warns shipyards must 'act like we're at war' as China's AI-powered fleet races ahead

FOX News

Navy Secretary John Phelan warns the U.S. must treat shipbuilding with wartime urgency, launching a new office to address submarine delays and outdated acquisition processes.


2 Men Linked to China's Salt Typhoon Hacker Group Likely Trained in a Cisco 'Academy'

WIRED

The names of two partial owners of firms linked to the Salt Typhoon hacker group also appeared in records for a Cisco training program--years before the group targeted Cisco's devices in a spy campaign. Cisco's Networking Academy, a global training program designed to educate IT students in the basics of IT networks and cybersecurity, proudly touts its accessibility to participants around the world: "We believe education can be the ultimate equalizer, enabling anyone, regardless of background, to develop expertise and shape their destiny in a digital era," reads the first line on its website. That laudable statement, however, reads a bit differently when the "destiny" of those students appears to be owning a majority stake in companies linked to one of the most successful Chinese state-sponsored hacking operations ever to target the West--and many of Cisco's own products . That's the surprising conclusion of Dakota Cary, a researcher at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne and the Atlantic Council, who, like many security analysts, has closely tracked the Chinese state-sponsored hacker group known as Salt Typhoon . That cyberespionage group gained notoriety last year when it was revealed that the hackers had penetrated at least nine telecom companies and gained the ability to spy on Americans' real-time calls and texts, specifically targeting then-presidential and vice presidential candidates Donald Trump and JD Vance, among many others.


OpenAI's house of cards seems primed to collapse

Engadget

GPU prices could follow RAM's big rise OpenAI's house of cards seems primed to collapse In 2025, it fell behind the one company it couldn't lose ground to: Google. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors' Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2025. OpenAI is in a far less commanding position than it was following the public release of ChatGPT a few short years ago. Back in 2022, the sudden popularity of ChatGPT sent Google into a panic . The company was so worried about the possibility of the upstart chatbot disrupting its Search business, executives sounded a code red alert inside of the company and called Sergey Brin and Larry Page out of retirement to help it formulate a response to OpenAI.


Stephen Hawking's computer gets a glow up: AI-powered AVATAR creates new possibilities for people with severe disabilities

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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The space billboard that nearly happened

Popular Science

How a 1993 plan to launch ads into space turned into a national freakout. In the 1990s, space was for sale. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. In 1993, Mike Lawson, an aerospace entrepreneur based in Roswell, Georgia, unveiled his vision for a brave new future of advertising: space billboards. This wasn't a half-baked scheme: Lawson had meticulous plans for a proposed 1996 launch: His team of engineers would shoot a package of tightly-wound mylar into orbit about 180 miles above the Earth.


Why your holiday shopping data needs a cleanup now

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Democracies must fight for freedom, Nobel laureate Machado says

The Japan Times

Ana Corina Sosa (second from left), receives the Nobel Peace Prize for her mother, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, from the Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Jorgen Watne Frydnes next to a photo of Machado, in Oslo on Wednesday. OSLO - Democracies must be prepared to fight for freedom in order to survive, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado said on Wednesday, in a speech delivered by her daughter during a ceremony Machado could not attend. The Venezuelan opposition leader said that the prize held profound significance, not only for her country but for the world. "It reminds the world that democracy is essential to peace," she said, via her daughter Ana Corina Sosa Machado. "And the most important, the lesson Venezuelans can share with the world, is a lesson forged on a long and difficult path: If we want democracy, we must be prepared to fight for freedom."