Technology
NASA: two options for the SLS upper stage and a lighter “Sortie” suit for the 2028 Moon landing
For Artemis IV in 2028, NASA is weighing two upper-stage options for the SLS rocket and a lighter “Sortie” spacesuit…
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Microsoft: analysis of 383,000 vulnerabilities shows which ones attackers actually exploit
Microsoft’s analysis finds that only about 2,000 of roughly 383,000 disclosed software vulnerabilities, around 0.5%, have been tied to real…
Europe
ENISA and the Commission: cyberattacks on refrigeration systems in EU states and a new wave on November 1-2
ENISA, the European Commission, Europol’s EC3 and the national cyber networks say refrigeration systems in food retail have been hit…
Technology
ESA’s Hera: the ten mysteries of Dimorphos that the spacecraft will try to solve
Shortly before reaching the Didymos system in November, ESA’s Hera mission faces ten open questions about Dimorphos, from the DART…
Asia-Pacific
Kim Yo Jong denies North Korea was behind the Binance hack: “absurd rhetoric, nothing new”
North Korea denied it was behind the cyberattack on Binance, from which $6.3 billion in digital assets were stolen. Kim…
Technology
Siemens Mendix SAML: vulnerability CVE-2026-89209 allows authentication bypass, in a CISA republication of a Siemens advisory
Siemens disclosed CVE-2026-89209 in its Mendix SAML module, which can let an unauthenticated attacker log in remotely by replaying a…
Technology
Hitachi Energy TRO600: two high-severity vulnerabilities in the routers, fixed in version 9.2.2.1
Hitachi Energy disclosed two high-severity vulnerabilities in its TRO600 series wireless routers. Both are fixed by updating to firmware 9.2.2.1,…
Technology
ESA’s Brain-DTI experiment studies how space reshapes astronauts’ brains, with Sophie Adenot
The European Space Agency presented the Brain-DTI experiment, which studies how the brain adapts to microgravity and recovers back on…
Technology
NASA’s Dragonfly: send your name to Titan by January 15, 2027
NASA has opened its “Journey to Titan” campaign, inviting the public to register names to ride aboard the Dragonfly rotorcraft…
Politics & Diplomacy
Ukraine to Musk: it is “technically impossible” that its army violated the Starlink terms of use in drone strikes
Elon Musk said on October 24 that Ukraine’s army broke the Starlink terms of use by using it in offensive…
Technology
Artemis III: NASA engineers explain how the Blue Moon and Starship landers will be tested before the 2028 Moon landing
Two test vehicles, one about 16 metres tall and one about 52 metres, will dock with the Orion spacecraft in…
Technology
Hubble: NASA asks private industry for a mission to raise the telescope’s orbit and service it
NASA issued a Request for Information on October 29 asking companies what they could offer to boost, repair or safely…