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SpaceX to Deorbit 100 Starlink Satellites Due to Potential Flaw

SpaceX says the maneuver won’t affect any Starlink users. The satellites should burn up without a trace in the Earth’s atmosphere.

As a precaution, SpaceX plans on deorbiting 100 first-generation Starlink satellites, citing a potential flaw that could one day cause the satellites to completely fail.

As a result, the satellites will descend toward Earth before disintegrating in the planet’s atmosphere. “Starlink satellites are also fully demisable by design, meaning that the risk to those on the ground, in the air, or at sea from a deorbiting satellite is effectively zero as the satellites burn up during reentry,” SpaceX said on Monday.

The deorbiting will have no impact on Starlink customers, SpaceX says. Even though the network is losing 100 satellites, the network overall has more than 5,400 working satellites.

The company made the announcement while highlighting SpaceX’s “commitment to space sustainability.” Over the years, the satellite network’s growing size has attracted scrutiny over potential orbital hazards to other space projects, or even dangerous debris falling to Earth.

However, SpaceX says the Starlink network was designed to prevent itself from becoming a space risk. Each satellite features an “autonomous collision avoidance” system, along with ion thrusters, so that it can maneuver in Earth’s orbit. Atmospheric drag will also cause all Starlink satellites to deorbit and burn up in the atmosphere in five years or less, even if engine maneuverability is lost.

Starlink didn’t elaborate on the flaw in these early satellites. It said only that the “Starlink team identified a common issue in this small population of satellites that could increase the probability of failure in the future.”

Although the 100 satellites continue to function, SpaceX decided to deorbit them while it still can, rather than risk losing its ability to do so should a complete failure arise.

– https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-to-deorbit-100-starlink-satellites-due-to-potential-flaw

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EU opens formal probe of TikTok under Digital Services Act, citing child safety, risk management & other concerns
– https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/19/tiktok-dsa-probe/

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Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes
– https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/19/24077233/wyze-security-camera-breach-13000-customers-events

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Nvidia is now worth more than Amazon thanks to the AI chip boom

It’s a sign of how strong demand is for chips that can run cutting-edge AI, as well as the investor appetite for the companies that make the semiconductors.

– https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/13/nvidia-market-cap-passes-amazon-on-strength-of-ai-boom.html

 

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A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
– https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/11/24069251/waymo-driverless-taxi-fire-vandalized-video-san-francisco-china-town

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Neural networks are reportedly helping criminals create cheap virtual fake IDs online
– https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/12/ai_news_roundup/

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OpenAI tries to trademark ‘GPT’. US patent office says nope
– https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/19/ai_in_brief/

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Apple faces €500m fine from EU over Spotify complaint
– https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/18/24076526/apple-music-antitrust-fine-brussels-eu-spotify

Apple says Spotify wants ‘limitless’ access to its tools without paying
– https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/22/apple-says-spotify-wants-limitless-access-to-its-tools-without-paying

 

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Neuralink’s first human patient, implanted with the company’s N1 brain chip, can now control a mouse cursor with their thoughts following a successful procedure.
Elon Musk, CEO of Neuralink, announced the patient has fully recovered without any adverse effects and is working towards achieving the ability to click the mouse telepathically.
Neuralink aims to enable individuals, particularly those with quadriplegia or ALS, to operate computers using their minds, using a chip that is both powerful and designed to be cosmetically invisible.

– https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-claims-neuralinks-first-human-patient-can-control-cursor-with

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Adobe launches AI assistant that can search and summarize PDFs
– https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/20/adobe-launches-ai-assistant-that-can-search-and-summarize-pdfs.html

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LockBit ransomware group taken down in multinational operation
– https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/lockbit-website-seized-fbi

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Google engineers modded a PlayStation Portal to emulate PSP games
– https://www.engadget.com/google-engineers-modded-a-playstation-portal-to-emulate-psp-games-152256608.html

 

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FDA warns against smartwatches, rings claiming blood glucose measurement capability

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a safety warning to patients, consumers, and healthcare professionals in the US. It states that no smartwatch or smart ring has been authorized, cleared, or approved for measuring or estimating blood glucose values on its own. This warning comes as wearable technology claiming noninvasive blood glucose measurement capabilities gains more attention. The FDA has urged to be cautious of such claims and report any suspicious devices through its MedWatch Voluntary Reporting Form.
– https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/fda-issues-warning-not-to-use-certain-smartwatches-and-rings/story

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Vision Pro owners are reporting a mysterious crack in the front glass
– https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/23/24080886/apple-vision-pro-cracks-damage-glass

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Microsoft tried to sell Bing to Apple in 2018
– https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/microsoft-offered-to-sell-bing-to-apple-in-2018-google/story

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Apple’s decision to drop iPhone web apps comes under scrutiny in the EU.#
– https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/26/24083511/apple-eu-investigation-web-app-support

 

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PlayStation to axe 900 jobs and close studio
– https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68404704

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Dell promises ‘every PC is going to be an AI PC’ whether you like it or not
– https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/26/dell_ai_pc/

 

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Apple shuts down its secretive electric car project
– https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/27/24084907/apple-electric-car-project-titan-shuts-down

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Odysseus landed on the Moon without any altimetry data
– https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/it-turns-out-that-odysseus-landed-on-the-moon-without-any-altimetry-data/

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Intel’s 1nm node is coming in 2027 with “double-digit” improvements in performance and efficiency.
– https://www.techspot.com/news/102058-intel-1nm-node-coming-2027-double-digit-improvements.html

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Three more publishers (The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet) sue OpenAI
– https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/28/24085973/intercept-raw-story-alternet-openai-lawsuit-copyright
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Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘betrayal’
– https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/1/24087473/elon-musk-openai-lawsuit-nonprofit-mission
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OpenAI ‘categorically disagrees’ with Elon Musk’s lawsuit against it, suggests Tesla CEO has ‘regrets’.
– OpenAI ‘categorically disagrees’ with Elon Musk’s lawsuit against it, suggests Tesla CEO has ‘regrets’.
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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for potentially misleading investors.
– https://futurism.com/the-byte/sam-altman-openai-sec-investigation

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Facebook will discontinue its News tab in the US and Australia in April 2024, halting payments to news publishers and abstaining from creating new news-specific products.
– https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/29/24087220/facebook-news-tab-united-states-australia

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US launches ‘unprecedented’ investigation into Chinese connected cars, citing national security concerns.
– https://siliconangle.com/2024/02/29/us-launches-unprecedented-investigation-chinese-connected-cars-citing-national-security-concerns/
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Autonomous vehicle technology vulnerable to road object spoofing and vanishing attacks.
– https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-autonomous-vehicle-technology-vulnerable-road.html

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