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After a nationwide outage last week left tens of thousands of frustrated AT&T and Verizon customers without wireless cellphone service, many were left wondering what caused the interruption.

Faulty equipment? Hackers? Solar flares?

As it turns out, the answer was bad coding on the part of AT&T, the company said late last week.  Before that announcement, rumors circulated online that solar flares might've been responsible for the outage, which caught the attention of scientists at the National Oc

The Russia-based actor Star Blizzard (formerly known as SEABORGIUM, also known as Callisto Group/TA446/COLDRIVER/TAG-53/BlueCharlie) continues to successfully use spear-phishing attacks against targeted organizations and individuals in numerous global geographical areas of interest for information-gathering activity.

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US National Security

The US military’s secretive X-37B robot spaceplane has blasted off from Florida on its seventh mission, the first launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket capable of delivering it to a higher orbit than ever before.  As on previous missions, there are no humans on board the reusable plane, which resembles a mini space shuttle and carries classified experiments.  The Falcon Heavy, composed of three rocket cores strapped together, took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral more

https://youtu.be/8QL0l7hcHgc A laser communications experiment flying aboard NASA’s Psyche mission has beamed back a video to Earth from nearly 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away and the short clip stars a cat named Taters.  It is the first time NASA has streamed a video from deep space using a laser.  In the ultra-high definition video, the playful orange tabby cat chases, of all things, the elusive red dot from a laser pointer as it moves across a couch.  The cat video was transmitt

Voyager Space and Airbus Defense and Space are expanding their relationship via a new joint venture (JV) focused on the design, build, and operation of the Starlab commercial space station.  The two companies recently announced they will partner on Voyager’s Starlab space station in January 2024, saying that Airbus would provide “technical design support and expertise.” Still, little else was disclosed at the time.  Today’s news marks a considerable uptick in commitment from Airbus and a signal

The head of Russia’s space agency has extended an offer to Moscow’s partners in the BRICS group Brazil, India, China, and South Africa to participate in constructing a joint module for its planned orbital space station, state media reported on 24 July 2023.

See: https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/the-brics

Construction of the planned space station follows Moscow’s decision last year to end its decades-long partnership with NASA and withdraw from the aging International Space Station, one of th