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Indonesia closes 2025 with rising disasters and stalled environmental reform https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/indonesia-closes-2025-with-rising-disasters-and-stalled-environmental-reform/

Indonesia closes 2025 with rising disasters and stalled environmental reform
JAKARTA — Indonesia closed 2025 facing an uncomfortable reality: climate disasters are escalating while policy direction has remained largely unchanged during President Prabowo Subianto’s first year in office, with the country still heavily dependent on fossil fuels and extractive industries such as palm oil and mining. One of the deadliest disasters in Indonesia in recent […]

Each Saturday, Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers a digest of the best infosec-related long reads we couldn't cover in the crazy mix of daily news.
This week's selection covers,
--Tracking down the culprits in the Polish energy cyberattack,
--How China uses geo-blocking as reverse censorship,
--How Russia maneuvered spy satellites alongside Western satellites,
--Secure provenance methods can maintain effective cybersecurity,

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 2/21/26
Tracking down the culprits in the Polish energy cyberattack, How China uses geo-blocking as reverse censorship, How Russia maneuvered spy satellites alongside Western satellites, Secure provenance methods can maintain effective cybersecurity, Uncovering UK crypto exchanges that moved money to Iran

heise | Weltraumschrott: Gefahr für Satelliten – und unseren Alltag
Gefahr im All: Millionen Trümmer bedrohen unsere Satelliten. Unsere Videoreportage zeigt die Risiken und Lösungen eines Experten vom DLR.

Starlink plans to lower its satellites orbiting at ~550km to ~480km in 2026 to improve space safety and reduce the likelihood of debris collisions (Rishabh Jaiswal/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defe…

SpaceX filed a request with the FCC on Friday seeking approval to put a constellation of 1 million data centersatellites into orbit.
While the FCC is unlikely to approve a network that expansive, SpaceX’s strategy has been to request approval for unrealistically large numbers of satellites as a starting point for negotiations.
The filing proposes establishing a network of solar-powered data centers in low Earth orbit that communicate with one another via lasers. The filling speak…

SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit
SpaceX claims putting data centers in orbit will be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than building them on land.

Space Forge erhitzt erstmals Fertigungsofen im Weltall auf 1000 Grad
Das Unternehmen Space Forge aus Cardiff konnte zum ersten Mal Plasma im Fertigungsofen ihres Satelliten ForgeStar-1 erzeugen.
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Filing: SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-de…

SpaceX filed a request with the FCC on Friday seeking approval to put a constellation of 1 million data centersatellites into orbit.
While the FCC is unlikely to approve a network that expansive, SpaceX’s strategy has been to request approval for unrealistically large numbers of satellites as a starting point for negotiations.
The filing proposes establishing a network of solar-powered data centers in low Earth orbit that communicate with one another via lasers.
The fillin…

SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit
SpaceX claims putting data centers in orbit will be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than building them on land.

A new space race could turn our atmosphere into a ‘crematorium for satellites’
https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366

A new space race could turn our atmosphere into a ‘crematorium for satellites’
Planned ‘megaconstellations’ of satellites could cause unforeseen harm to the ozone layer and climate systems. Global regulation is needed before it’s too late.