Science

SpaceX adds a third ‘PayPal Mafia’ member to its board

MarketWatch

SpaceX adds a third ‘PayPal Mafia’ member to its board

Former PayPal CFO and venture capitalist Roelof Botha is joining SpaceX’s board and will serve on its audit committee.

MarketWatch

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Watched a Planet Get Absolutely Scorched

CNET

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Watched a Planet Get Absolutely Scorched

The exoplanet HD 80606 b has a weird, elliptical orbit that brings it perilously close to its home star, causing massive temperature fluctuations.

CNET

'A single cyber incident can lead to physical disruption, create safety hazards, or cause catastrophic downtime'

TechRadar

'A single cyber incident can lead to physical disruption, create safety hazards, or cause catastrophic downtime'

Cybersecurity researchers found vulnerabilities in power and cooling systems inside data centers that could allow attackers to disrupt physical infrastructure operations

TechRadar

Hanson faces backlash over ‘monoculture’ speech, Trump reveals Iran deal details, Maroons thrash Blues

The Guardian

Hanson faces backlash over ‘monoculture’ speech, Trump reveals Iran deal details, Maroons thrash Blues

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here , and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletter Morning everyone. Pauline Hanson’s incendiary speech about making Australia “monocultural” has drawn…

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Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.

Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.

Quantum computing news usually picks up near the end of the year, as companies try to provide evidence that they are hitting benchmarks on time. However, there have been interesting announcements as the summer starts this year, from…

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Brazil Diverges From Most G7 Documents, Says Texts Were Shaped to Avoid Upsetting Trump

Brazil joined only two of the five documents released by the French presidency on the second day of the G7 summit in �vian, France. For the Brazilian government, the texts were shaped to avoid President Donald Trump's veto of the United…

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TechCrunch

Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors

The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.

TechCrunch

Can Musk Pull Off a SpaceX-Tesla Merger?

Bloomberg

Can Musk Pull Off a SpaceX-Tesla Merger?

Should Elon Musk merge SpaceX and Tesla, into one company? There’s huge conflicts of interest here, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Liam Denning says. (Source: Bloomberg)

Bloomberg

Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks

Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks

Researchers have uncovered a massive breach of Fortinet firewalls that has given Russian-speaking attackers near-unrestricted access to some of the world’s largest and most powerful organizations, including Oracle, Chevron, Lenovo, Federal…

PsiQuantum breaks ground in Australia on what it says will be the world’s first utility-scale quantum computer

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