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Blue Origin’s New Glenn explosion is a setback for NASA’s Moon plans

While Blue Origin investigates the root cause behind last night’s spectacular explosion of its New Glenn rocket, it’s already clear that this will be a major setback for NASA’s Moon base plans and Amazon’s fledgling Leo space internet constellation. The incident occurred at about 9pm at Blue Origin’s Florida launch site during a hot-fire test, […]

RBI plans cross-border CBDC pilots amid digital currency experiments | Finance News

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said it would explore bilateral and multilateral cross-border central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilots in 2026-27, as the central bank expands experiments around digital payments, asset tokenisation and programmable money.   The RBI, in its annual report for 2025-26, said it would pursue cross-border CBDC pilots “with […]

Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks

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Hackers are targeting Signal users in an attempt to steal their chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign, TechCrunch has learned.  On Wednesday, Washington Post analyst Josh Rogin posted a screenshot of a new kind of attack against Signal users, where hackers pretend to be the app’s support team and warn the target […]

Bluesky embraces long-form content to counter X Articles

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Elon Musk’s X lets you write long-form content on the platform through its Articles feature, but only if you’re a paid subscriber or business. The decentralized social networking startup Bluesky has a different idea. On Thursday, Bluesky rolled out a new version of its app that integrates with Standard.site, a community project for building long-form […]