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SpaceX deaktiviert Starlink-Antennen bei mutmaßlichen Scam-Zentren in Myanmar
Im Bürgerkriegsland Myanmar werden unzählige Menschen festgehalten und gezwungen, mit Betrug online Geld einzutreiben. Nun ist auch SpaceX dagegen vorgegangen.

Starlink says it has reached 9M "active customers" across 155 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 8M on November 5 (Polly Thompson/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-customer-number…

Elon Musk's Starlink is adding 20,000 new users a day as it hits 9 million customers
Customer numbers for SpaceX's Starlink internet have surged by 1 million in the past six weeks, the company said on X.

Fusion: EU-Satellitenbetreiber wollen gemeinsam Musks SpaceX Paroli bieten
Airbus, Leonardo und Thales planen den Zusammenschluss ihrer Raumfahrtsparten. Die EU-Wettbewerbsbehörden müssen den Deal noch prüfen, OHB erhebt Einspruch.

In 2014, NASA awarded a Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to Boeing to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station with its #Starliner spacecraft; as part of its contract, Boeing was awarded up to six crewed flights to the orbital complex - after a thorough evaluation, the definitive order has been adjusted to four missions, with the remaining two available as options: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/11/24/nasa-boeing-modify-commercial-crew-contract/. The next Starliner flight, known as Starliner-1, will be used by NASA to deliver necessary cargo to the orbital laboratory and allow in-flight validation of the system upgrades implemented following the Crew Flight Test mission last year - NASA and Boeing are targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 pending completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities.

Here's another business AI fail. Check out the subject line from today's newsletter:
"Claude to suggest subject line"
A very disappointing effort from Her Canberra.
#AI #Email #Newsletter

University College London: Stop Sepsis Experiments on Rodents! #AnimalRights

University College London: Stop Sepsis Experiments on Rodents!
University College London is infecting rodents with bacteria to cause sepsis and then killing them in painful experiments. Urge the university to stop.

AST launches its largest-ever satellite from India, hosting the BlueBird Block-2, the first in a series of deployments to challenge SpaceX in satellite internet (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Starshield von SpaceX: Satelliten der US-Regierung nutzen gesperrte Frequenzen
Bei Starshield stellt SpaceX Regierungen Satelliten, viel ist dazu nicht bekannt. Nun wurde entdeckt, dass die offenbar auf einer gesperrten Frequenz funken.

Verbraucher stellen Ansprüche an digitalen Euro
Wer bargeldlos bezahlt, will auch bei einem digitalen Euro keine Kompromisse machen. Warum Banken und Sparkassen das EZB-Projekt trotzdem mit Skepsis begleiten.
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HTC startet globalen XR-Hackathon für Studierende mit Fokus auf WebXR
Studierende bauen bei HTCs erstem globalen XR-Hackathon eigene virtuelle Welten im Browser – von Spielen bis Social Spaces.
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