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After nearly breaking, NASA’s Deep Space Network “worked well” on Artemis II

Stephen Clark • June 11, 2026 NASA pushed its Deep Space Network beyond its limits during the Artemis I mission nearly four years ago. The global array of deep space communications antennas couldn’t keep up with the routine demands of 40 robotic science missions and the extraordinary surge required by NASA’s Orion space capsule as

AcuRite admits new app falls short, delays old app’s May shutdown to fix problems

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Scharon Harding • June 11, 2026 Smart weather-monitoring device vendor AcuRite has delayed plans to force users onto a new companion app. The transition from My AcuRite to AcuRite NOW, which AcuRite previously set for May 30, “has raised serious questions and concerns among many long-time users,” AcuRite’s VP of product development, Jeff Bovee, told

Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely

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Jon Brodkin • June 12, 2026 Verizon sent one of its customers a “refurbished” phone equipped with a Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile that gave the company remote control over the device. The serious mistake raises questions about Verizon’s process for preparing refurbished phones to be sent to customers. Tom Collery, the unlucky Verizon customer,

Rocket Report: Nova moving through test campaign; SpaceX IPO launches Friday

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Eric Berger • June 12, 2026 Welcome to Edition 8.45 of the Rocket Report! Even though we are now two weeks removed from the catastrophic loss of the New Glenn rocket and its LC-36A launch pad, it continues to dominate discussion in the space community. This week, NASA said it nominally plans to fly Blue

Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act

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Jon Brodkin • June 11, 2026 US Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today introduced the JAWBONE Act, a proposed law that could fuel lawsuits against federal officials who try to coerce broadcasters or tech platforms into restricting speech. The Justice Against Weaponized Bureaucratic Overreach to Networked Expression Act would prohibit federal agencies

Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses

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Jeremy Hsu • June 12, 2026 A decade after the global craze for Pokémon Go peaked, an AI company has been using billions of real-world images captured by millions of players to develop navigation technologies for delivery robots and possibly military drones. That represents an intriguing but potentially discomfiting legacy for an augmented reality mobile

Ebola cases in DRC rise to 676 as Kenya protests erupt over US plans

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Beth Mole • June 12, 2026 Nearly a month into the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, cases continue to rise as officials are still trailing the virus in their response efforts. As of Thursday, June 11, the DRC has reported 676 confirmed cases, 136 deaths, and 119 suspected cases. Uganda is

A warrantless wiretap law is about to expire — but surveillance networks aren’t actually ‘going dark’

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Gaby Del Valle • June 11, 2026 Congress has failed to pass a three-week extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), with the House voting 218-198 against reauthorizing the controversial warrantless wiretapping authority through July 2nd. After a short-term extension earlier this year, the spying program now appears set to lapse

Here are the price-matching policies for Best Buy, GameStop, and others

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Sheena Vasani • June 11, 2026 Nothing is more frustrating than buying a new pair of headphones, an OLED TV, or a laptop just to find out that you could have gotten it for cheaper somewhere else just a few days or weeks later. That’s why, in order to keep customers happy and prevent them

The bill that would let Jimmy Kimmel sue Brendan Carr is here

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Lauren Feiner • June 11, 2026 Under a new bipartisan bill, Americans could sue for damages if a government official illegally tries to coerce a social media, AI, or broadcasting company to remove their post – regardless of whether the platform actually does it. Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Ron Wyden