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The Space Station circles the planet every 90 minutes, seeing 16 sunrises a day

A single flaw in the WordPress plugin Everest Forms lets attackers seize full control of a website, and thousands are exposed

Google just patched a record 429 security bugs in a single Chrome update, the most the browser has ever fixed at once

More than 95% of internet traffic travels through cables lying on the ocean floor

The FBI warns that a ransomware crew called the Silent Ransom Group is hunting law firms, posing as IT staff to talk its way inside

Hackers are actively exploiting a flaw in Trend Micro’s Apex One software, the very tool companies installed to keep malware out

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from California just after midnight Sunday, carrying a fleet of Starshield satellites built for the US military

The first text message ever sent, in 1992, simply read “Merry Christmas”

A single strand of fiber-optic cable can carry millions of phone calls at once

The ShinyHunters extortion gang just dumped data it claims to have stolen from Charter, the cable giant behind Spectrum

A $1,000 AI agent just found 21 security holes in FFmpeg, the video engine inside almost every app — and one bug had hidden for 23 years

A modern smartphone holds more computing power than all of NASA’s Apollo program

Hackers are breaking into corporate networks through a Palo Alto VPN flaw, forging login cookies to walk straight past the password screen

The International Space Station circles the Earth about 16 times every day

SpaceX is set to launch the SiriusXM SXM-11 radio satellite and a Globalstar batch from Cape Canaveral in the second half of June

A single modern undersea cable can carry hundreds of terabits of internet traffic every second