Month: June 2025

Nach 14 Jahren vergibt die Icann 2026 wieder Top-Level-Domains. Ein neues Handbuch zeigt, wie man das macht - und wie die Icann aus Fehlern gelernt hat. Ein Ratgebertext von Katrin Ohlmer (Icann, DNS)

Der Tracker von Atuvos ist wieder erhältlich und bietet eine praktische Lösung für alle, die im Alltag den Überblick behalten wollen. (Technik/Hardware, Airtag)

Rick Moranis verlässt den Ruhestand, um in Spaceballs 2 wieder Lord Helmchen zu spielen. (Science-Fiction, Film)

As artificial intelligence has advanced, AI tools have emerged to make it possible to easily create digital replicas of lost loved ones, which can be generated without the knowledge or consent of the person who died.

Trained on the data of the dead, these tools, sometimes called grief bots or AI ghosts, may be text-, audio-, or even video-based. Chatting provides what some mourners feel is a close approximation to ongoing interactions with the people they love most. But the tech remains controversial, perhaps complicating the grieving process while threatening to infringe upon the privacy of the deceased, whose data could still be vulnerable to manipulation or identity theft.

Because of suspected harms and perhaps a general repulsion to the idea of it, not everybody wants to become an AI ghost.

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Welcome to Edition 7.48 of the Rocket Report! The shock of last week's public spat between President Donald Trump and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has worn off, and Musk expressed regret for some of his comments going after Trump on social media. Musk also backtracked from his threat to begin decommissioning the Dragon spacecraft, currently the only way for the US government to send people to the International Space Station. Nevertheless, there are many people who think Musk's attachment to Trump could end up putting the US space program at risk, and I'm not convinced that danger has passed.

As always, we welcome reader submissions. If you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets, as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.

Quebec invests in small launch company. The government of Quebec will invest $10 million Canadian dollars ($7.3 million) into a Montreal-area company that is developing a system to launch small satellites into space, The Canadian Press reports. Quebec premier François Legault announced the investment into Reaction Dynamics at the company's facility in Longueuil, a Montreal suburb. The province's economy minister, Christine Fréchette, said the investment will allow the company to begin launching microsatellites into orbit from Canada as early as 2027.

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Der in Euskirchen ansässige Serviettenhersteller Fasana hat nach einem Cyberangriff Zahlungsprobleme. Hacker haben den Betrieb vollständig lahmgelegt. (Cybercrime, Cyberwar)

Mit einem Milliardeninvestment sichert sich Meta eine große Beteiligung an Scale AI sowie die Dienste des CEO und Gründers Alexandr Wang. (Meta, KI)

Irres Gerücht - aber nicht unglaubwürdig: Angeblich entsteht ein weiteres offizielles Add-on für den Rollenspielklassiker The Witcher 3. (The Witcher 3, Rollenspiel)

Eine Action Cam von DJI mit 4K, Ultraweitwinkelobjektiv und zwei Farb-Touchscreens ist bei Amazon inklusive Zubehör stark reduziert. (DJI, Kameras)

Ein Paper in Nature zeigt, dass die Akkus bei CATL große Fortschritte machen. Aber ihnen fehlen sowohl Energiedichte als auch Stabilität. Eine Analyse von Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer (Akku, Lithium)