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NASA Swift boost mission ends without raising observatory’s orbit
NASA says Katalyst Space's LINK servicing spacecraft hit communications and attitude control problems and re-entered on Sept. 25 without grappling the Swift observatory.
NASA
AWS to cut European Sovereign Cloud off from global backbone Oct. 24
Amazon says the Brandenburg-based region will run for several hours without its global network backbone to produce evidence of EU operational independence.
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft details NeedyMantis malware in targeted intrusions
Microsoft Threat Intelligence says the modular post-compromise framework has hit telecom firms, universities, nonprofits and government contractors since at least October 2025.
Microsoft
NASA sets Oct. 1 launch for SpaceX Crew-13 mission to ISS
NASA says four astronauts will lift off from Cape Canaveral aboard the Dragon spacecraft Grace for a long-duration research stay on the International Space Station.
NASA
Cloudflare launches cf, an agent-first CLI for its whole API
Cloudflare says its new cf command-line tool exposes more than 3,000 API operations to coding agents, versus about 280 in Wrangler, and defaults to JSON output.
Cloudflare
Top 10 vulnerabilities of the week (Sep 22–28, 2026): 5 actively exploited
This week's 10 most urgent vulnerabilities, including 5 CISA confirmed as actively exploited, ranked from CISA and NIST data.
CISA
NASA Maps 1,943 Hidden Valleys Beneath Greenland’s Ice Sheet
A NASA-led study says a new satellite-based method revealed a vast subglacial valley network that could sharpen long-term projections of how Greenland's ice will retreat.
NASA
Cloudflare ships EmDash 1.0 CMS with decentralized plugin registry
Cloudflare says its open source Astro-based CMS is now stable, with sandboxed plugins and a registry built on AT Protocol rather than a central marketplace.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare open-sources Forge pipeline for SDKs, CLIs and docs
Cloudflare says its new Apache 2.0-licensed generation pipeline builds SDKs, CLIs, docs and Cap'n Web bindings from API specs, and runs in CI on every pull request.
Cloudflare
Red Hat backs NVIDIA agent safety platform with OpenShell, BlueField
Red Hat's CTO says model guardrails alone cannot secure AI agents, and outlines layered controls spanning identity, sandboxing, network policy and hardware isolation.
Red Hat