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Ukraine Says Starlink and Starshield Speeds Are Restored, as Musk Claims Kyiv Broke the Terms

After more than a week of speed caps that hampered drone defence, Kyiv reports normal service on both networks. Musk says the military violated the rules, and Ukrainian officials deny it.

Oct 24, 2026/2 min read

A stack of Starlink satellites on a launch dispenser above the Earth, photographed by SpaceX on 24 May 2019, a file photograph of the satellites and not of Ukrainian equipment

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SpaceX Reportedly Wants 80,000 US Cell Sites for a Fourth Wireless Network, and Carrier Stocks Tumble

A Bloomberg report that SpaceX is negotiating tower access for a nationwide phone network hit AT&T and T-Mobile hard on Friday, while Crown Castle jumped. Nothing is confirmed on the record.

Oct 24, 2026/2 min read

Cellular antennas and radio units clustered on a pole against an overcast sky, photographed on 18 May 2019, a file photograph illustrative of cell tower equipment and not of any site named in the report

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Just 3% of the World's Glaciers Account for Over Half of Glacier Ice Loss, Study Finds

Glaciers that end in lakes, oceans or ice shelves lost 134 billion tonnes a year from 2000 to 2019, and lake-ending ones lost ice about 57 percent faster for their size.

Oct 23, 2026/2 min read

Tasman Lake in New Zealand filled with floating ice blocks beneath snow-capped mountains, photographed on 5 October 2010, a file photograph of a glacier that ends in a lake and not of the study's data

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Microsoft's Diagnostic AI Solves 83% of Hard Cases in Science Paper, but Only in a Simulation

MAI-DxO, an orchestrator of several AI agents, beat generalist doctors on 304 published case reports. Microsoft's own tests show how much of the gain comes from the model underneath.

Oct 23, 2026/2 min read

A glass-fronted Microsoft building with a wide canopy and the company sign at its base at the Redmond headquarters, photographed on 30 May 2016, a file photograph of the campus and not of the diagnostic study

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NASA's Roman Space Telescope Enters Final Commissioning as Hubble Maps Lenses for It

Roman has finished its initial checkout and can guide, image and slew, NASA says. On the same day Hubble released a lens image meant to teach astronomers how to read Roman's wide views.

Oct 23, 2026/2 min read

An artist's illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope spacecraft against a starry sky, uploaded on 20 May 2020, an illustration of the observatory and not an image taken by it

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Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox Join the Agentic AI Foundation

At AGNTCon in San Jose, the Linux Foundation project took in four projects from Anthropic, OpenAI, Hugging Face and Alibaba, bringing the foundation to ten.

Oct 23, 2026/2 min read

The plaza and glass-fronted facade of the San Jose McEnery Convention Center under a blue sky with visitors on the steps, photographed on 25 June 2014, a file photograph of the venue and not of this week's conference

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Outside Red Team Found Gaps in OpenAI's Monitor for Its Own Coding Agents

A METR and Redwood Research pilot spent three weeks inside OpenAI and found traffic that went unwatched, including about a tenth of internal Codex use for three months. OpenAI says it patched them.

Oct 23, 2026/2 min read

Rows of wire shelving holding computer servers in a large server room, photographed on 23 January 2008, a file photograph illustrative of computing infrastructure and not of OpenAI's systems

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Nvidia Signs Six Suppliers to Expand Chip Substrates, Packaging and Testing

At GTC Berlin the chipmaker named Ibiden, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Unimicron, Amkor, KYEC and SPIL, with prepaid reservations and a plan to raise substrate capacity 2.5 times.

Oct 23, 2026/2 min read

The glass and white-panel facade of an Nvidia office building in Santa Clara with the green company sign, trees and parked cars in the foreground, photographed on 19 April 2008, a file photograph of the company's headquarters and not of any supplier plant

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What PHP2Shell Reveals About Maintaining the Code Behind Most of the Web

A bug seen in 2024 went unfixed, a leak scrambled the embargo, and hundreds of thousands of hosts run branches with no upstream patch. Reported views on what failed and what held.

Oct 22, 2026/3 min read

A brass padlock beside a pair of keys on a wooden table, photographed on 16 January 2018, a file photograph illustrative of security and not of PHP or anything in the story

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PHP2Shell for Hosts, Developers and Security Teams: Backports, WAF Rules and Incident Response

Firewall rules buy time, distributions ship backports under old version numbers, and containers need rebuilding. What each vendor advised and where the limits are.

Oct 22, 2026/3 min read

A 19-inch rack of Ethernet switches and patch panels with grey patch cables looped neatly down the sides, photographed on 23 October 2009, a file photograph illustrative of hosting infrastructure and not of any provider named

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PHP2Shell: What Website Owners and Small Businesses Should Do Right Now

Update PHP first, find every copy you run, treat old versions as a risk, and use stopgaps with their costs in mind. A plain checklist for sites that cannot wait.

Oct 22, 2026/3 min read

An Acer laptop showing a Linux terminal in the middle of a package update, photographed around 7 March 2026, a file photograph illustrative of updating server software and not of a PHP update