A rocket booster and a dead satellite might collide tonight, illustrating the ‘ticking time bomb’ of space debris
If it happens, the collision would likely produce thousands of pieces of space debris, the most since an active communications satellite operated by Iridium and a dead Russian satellite crashed into each other in 2009. https://wapo.st/2H8ggOG
Google hired the co-founders of prominent AI start-up Character.ai, in a deal similar to recent transactions by Microsoft and Amazon that drew antitrust scrutiny. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/02/google-character-ai-noam-shazeer/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Born at least in part of idealism, WikiLeaks’ aid to a Russian influence operation succeeded so well that it ushered in a golden era of hacking and leaking. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/26/wikileaks-leaks-reveals-hacking-influence/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
