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Nasa is analysing a piece of space debris that smashed through a Florida man’s roof, narrowly missing his son.

Better Late The first crewed test launch of Boeing's much-maligned Starliner spacecraft has been delayed yet again. This time, however, it's seemingly not about the aerospace giant's massive technical difficulties in getting its astronaut shuttle off the ground — with or without a crew on board. "Following a review of the International Space Station operations, […]

A maintainer for a Linux-based database identified malicious code hidden in a tool called XZ Utils and stopped a global security breach in its tracks.

NASA said Tuesday it was analyzing an object that crashed from the sky into a Florida man's home – which could well be a piece of debris jettisoned from the International Space Station.

The object tore through the roof and both floors of a two-story home. NASA will investigate whether it’s space junk.

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Discord is implementing ads this week, a significant departure from its No Ads stance of years past. How will it work? Let's talk about it.

A backdoor that seems to have been purposely placed in the open source XZ Utils data compression library could have led to widespread compromise across the Linux ecosystem, and the community is on the trail of an individual developer who seems to be behind it.

Discord is now offering targeted ads on the platform called Sponsored Quests, but you may opt out. After a long time of preventing ads, Discord's new plan for boosting its platform is to bring targeted ads to users' streams to the instant messaging app.

In this week’s newsletter: An unknown attacker carefully infiltrated Linux over Easter, and very nearly gained access to millions of computers – were it not for one mildly inconvenienced developer