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Learning from a satellite servicing mission's failure

In mid-August, NASA announced it was calling off an effort to reboost the orbit of its Swift space telescope because of ...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets

Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence (...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance

Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a develop...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
MTN Uganda Partners With Starlink to Bring Satellite Connectivity to Remote Areas

MTN Uganda has partnered with Starlink to extend satellite-enabled connectivity to enterprise customers operating in rem...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
SES Awards OHB €1 billion for IRIS2 MEO Satellites

European satellite operator SES has awarded OHB a contract worth almost €1 billion to develop and build satellite platfo...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Hiding Prompt Injection in Legal Filing

Someone hid AI instructions into a legal filing. Alternate link.

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Indonesia Investigating Reports of Citizens Recruited Into Russian Military

Ukraine last week published scans of seven e-visa applications and one migration card it said belonged to Indonesian men...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Chinese manufacturing activity falls for second consecutive month

Beijing’s export-oriented industries have helped buoy the country’s economy for years as domestic consumption has falter...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Africa turns to Asia for diesel as Iran war disrupts supplies

Before the start of hostilities, Africa relied on the Gulf for a large share of the fuel it consumes.

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Asian leaders gather amid China's efforts to expand influence

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation members will meet in Kyrgyzstan to discuss energy and security.

No location · Aug 31, 2026
ValleyRAT masquerading as adware

Threat actors are distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as adware. We analyze the infection chain, from the mali...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Drone Hits High-Rise Apartment Building in Yekaterinburg as Ukraine Targets Wildberries Hub

Local authorities said at least four people were injured during the drone barrage while several residential buildings we...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Trump’s trifecta of failure on Seoul hands Kim Jong Un the advantage

Editor’s note: The following article is an opinion piece by Bruce Klingner, a senior fellow at the Mansfield Foundation....

No location · Aug 31, 2026
China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs

A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors t...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Starlink Is Live in Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea just became Starlink’s 30th African country. On August 29, 2026, both the official Starlink account an...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
This month in security with Tony Anscombe – August 2026 edition

Details about the Hugging Face hack, critical infrastructure under attack, a spoofed in-flight Wi-Fi network, and more o...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
ROK taps veteran general for defense minister as North also names new top brass

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung nominated retired four-star Gen. Kang Shin-chul as defense minister, putting a form...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
The Quantum Stack and the Countdown to Q-Day

Quantum’s hype obscures a reality with real geopolitical stakes: the technology works and is advancing every day. Camero...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Actually, maybe: How German Angst could become Europe’s nightmare

Germany’s political centre is crumbling—but its leaders appear unable to get ahead of the impending crisis

No location · Aug 31, 2026
DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencie...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Stop Using AI. Start Commanding It

Walk into the Pentagon, climb the escalator, and an Uncle Sam-style poster points at you: “I want YOU to use AI.” It wor...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Roman lifts off on a mission to survey the infrared sky

Image: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Cen...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
India, UK Fire Up Defense Cooperation With Joint Development

An inter-governmental agreement to develop and incorporate integrated full electric propulsion for the Indian Navy’s fou...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Taiwan’s parliament finally passes drone bill to back hedgehog strategy

Belated parliamentary funding for Taiwan’s drone program isn’t likely to satisfy President Lai Ching-te. Nonetheless, pr...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Philippine Peso Slumps to Record Low Amid Rising Energy Prices

Like some of its regional counterparts, the Philippines continues to be buffeted by the economic shocks of the U.S.-Iran...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Trump designates protesters terrorists. How far will it go?

Protesting is terrorism. At least, that is the message that the Trump administration has communicated in a series of rec...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
After Iran, US signals major security shift in the Middle East

When President Donald Trump congratulated Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan for signing the Mecca Pact, describing it a...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
What do current US military ops in Latin America actually look like?

On Thursday, U.S. SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan met with the Colombian and Ecuadorian defense ministers in ...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Rocket Lab launches Japanese radar satellite to orbit on 'Owl Around the World' mission (video)

Rocket Lab launched a Japanese synthetic aperture radar satellite to orbit on Sept. 2 for Synspective, a Tokyo-based Ear...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
The Road Through Damascus

How Syria can capitalize on the post-Hormuz economy.

No location · Aug 31, 2026
The Price of Russian Paranoia

Spy hunting shores up Putin’s power—but paralyzes the state.

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Sri Lanka’s New Anti-Terrorism Legislation

A law that cannot turn intelligence into evidence will reproduce the central weakness of the Prevention of Terrorism Act...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
India Has a Complex Youth Unemployment Problem, And There Isn’t a Quick Fix

Education and skills don't match available jobs. The economy isn’t creating good-quality employment for an expanding and...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
A prime ministerial interpreter and interpreting risk

A weekend report in The Australian has raised questions about whether the foreign university affiliations of an interpre...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
Vietnam Demands ‘Immediate Cessation’ to Construction Activities in Paracel Islands

The request follows reports of extensive Chinese construction activities on Antelope Reef and a nearby islet.

No location · Aug 31, 2026
SLS picks up the pace, four vehicles in production

The NASA and contractor workforce continues to make progress ahead of next year’s Artemis III… The post SLS picks up the...

No location · Aug 31, 2026
USS Abraham Lincoln Passes Through Singapore Strait En route to Thailand

Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) passed through the Singapore Strait on Saturday en route to a planned port visit in...

No location · Aug 30, 2026
US strikes deal for 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves

US President Donald Trump announced Friday that the US had secured majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of...

No location · Aug 30, 2026
Nepal disaster highlights climate, geopolitical plight

Countries like Nepal are not large emitters but are disproportionately affected by climate change.

No location · Aug 30, 2026
OpenAI hack shows emergent AI risks

Rogue OpenAI agents’ unprecedented coordination during the Hugging Face attack significantly increases the risk of AI es...

No location · Aug 30, 2026

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