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DealFlowAgent raises $750,000 to automate small business M&A

A seed-stage investment bank for small business M&A raises $750,000 from the backers of Uber and SpaceX. The market they’re targeting is enormous. The question is whether they’re early or right on time. Most people who sell a business do it once. They don’t know the going rate, they don’t know which buyers are serious, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Israel: Rocket interception debris sparks fire near Tel Aviv

Explosions were heard over Tel Aviv on Thursday after Iranian missiles were fired towards central Israel. No injuries were reported, though debris from intercepted rockets started a fire in a residential area.

Rocket Lab Deploys Commercial Satellite for Confidential Customer Aboard Electron's Fourth Launch of the Year

Rocket Lab has successfully launched and deployed a single commercial satellite to a 470 km low Earth orbit for a confidential customer aboard its Electron launch vehicle, making it two successful launches for Rocket Lab in less than a week from two different countries. The launch took place within 7 days of Rocket Lab’s most recent mission from its Launch Complex 2 on Wallops Island, Virginia, which deployed a hypersonic test flight for the Department of War’s Defense Innovation Unit with its

Space One Terminates Kairos Launch Shortly After Lift Off, Suffering Third Launch Failure

Japanese launch service provider, Space One has failed to launch its Kairos rocket into space for the third time, terminating the flight shortly after lift off. This was the company's third attempted launch after two failed attempts in March and December in 2024. The post Space One Terminates Kairos Launch Shortly After Lift Off, Suffering Third Launch Failure appeared first on SpaceWatch.GLOBAL.

Grumman F8F Bearcat – the Get Highest the Fastest Fighter to Never Die

4,000 pounds of airframe. 3,000 pounds of engine. It will reach 424 miles per hour and rocket off a carrier deck at nearly 5,000 feet per minute. By 1943, America is finally smashing its way across the Pacific. But there is still a problem no plane has solved. From the moment Japanese aircraft appear on […]

AegisUI: Behavioral Anomaly Detection for Structured User Interface Protocols in AI Agent Systems

arXiv:2603.05031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents that build user interfaces on the fly assembling buttons, forms, and data displays from structured protocol payloads are becoming common in production systems. The trouble is that a payload can pass every schema check and still trick a user: a button might say "View invoice" while its hidden action wipes an account, or a display widget might quietly bind to an internal salary field. Current defenses stop at syntax; they were never built

Zombie Agents: Persistent Control of Self-Evolving LLM Agents via Self-Reinforcing Injections

arXiv:2602.15654v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-evolving LLM agents update their internal state across sessions, often by writing and reusing long-term memory. This design improves performance on long-horizon tasks but creates a security risk: untrusted external content observed during a benign session can be stored as memory and later treated as instruction. We study this risk and formalize a persistent attack we call a Zombie Agent, where an attacker covertly implants a payload

Seraphim Space Investment Trust Posts Record Results

Seraphim Space Investment Trust ($SSIT) announced its financial results for H2 2025, revealing a successful portfolio of global space businesses that have seen valuations buoyed by geopolitical trends.   The post Seraphim Space Investment Trust Posts Record Results appeared first on Payload.

Exclusive: Viasat and Space42 Share Strategy for Equatys JV

The two companies cancelled a key roundtable at the Mobile World Conference, but Viasat CEO Mark Dankberg gave Payload an exclusive rundown. The post Exclusive: Viasat and Space42 Share Strategy for Equatys JV appeared first on Payload.

No Prank Here: NASA Lines Up April Fools' Day Window for First Crewed Moon Flight Since Apollo

NASA is targeting 1 April for the Artemis II Moon mission after engineers fixed a seal fault that forced the rocket back to the assembly building. The post No Prank Here: NASA Lines Up April Fools’ Day Window for First Crewed Moon Flight Since Apollo appeared first on Orbital Today.

Poland-based Liftero will provide chemical propulsion for Indian firm OrbitAID's in-orbit servicing mission

WARSAW — Polish chemical propulsion startup Liftero has signed a deal with India’s commercial in-orbit servicing specialist OrbitAID where Liftero will supply green chemical propulsion for OrbitAID’s in-orbit servicing spacecraft.  Under the contract, Liftero will supply two multi-thruster BOOSTER configurations for an upcoming OrbitAID mission expected in the fourth quarter of 2026. The mission will […] The post Poland-based Liftero will provide chemical propulsion for Indian firm OrbitAID’s in

NASA now officially has no plans to use new mobile launcher for Artemis

When NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the revamped approach to the Artemis moon program, it was unclear whether the new mobile launcher that has been constructed over the last two years at Kennedy Space Center would ever get used.

Artemis 2 inches closer to launch after helium fix

Finally, some good news for Artemis 2: NASA has fixed the helium flow issue that pushed the mission’s launch window from March to April. The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft are expected to roll back out to the pad later this month, with launch opportunities opening April 1. After rolling back toContinue reading "Artemis 2 inches closer to launch after helium fix" The post Artemis 2 inches closer to launch after helium fix appeared first on Astronomy Magazine.

FCC Wants 'Weird Space' Missions To Get Spectrum, Too

The FCC has a plan to support the space industry sectors that feel more science fiction than fact.  The post FCC Wants ‘Weird Space’ Missions To Get Spectrum, Too appeared first on Payload.

Branson Talks Virgin Galactic Return to Flight and Government Backing at Space-Comm Europe

LONDON — Virgin Galactic expects to start flying the next generation of its suborbital spaceship, the Delta Class, by the end of the year, Sir Richard Branson said this week during... The post Branson Talks Virgin Galactic Return to Flight and Government Backing at Space-Comm Europe appeared first on Via Satellite.

General Galactic aims to become "the galaxy's energy logistics company"

SAN FRANCISCO – Southern California startup General Galactic plans to launch a 500-kilogram satellite later this year to demonstrate a novel multimode propulsion system. When the Trinity mission travels to low-Earth orbit on the SpaceX Transporter-18 rideshare, no earlier than October, General Galactic will test its Genesis platform, which pairs chemical and electric engines. “We’re […] The post General Galactic aims to become “the galaxy’s energy logistics company” appeared first on SpaceNews.

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A New Kind of NFT Launcher

The new Traitor app lets you create and deploy an entire NFT collection in minutes.

MindsEye Studio CEO Remains Convinced That Espionage And Sabotage Killed The Game

Build a Rocket Boy has released a statement following another round of layoffs.

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines (grith.ai)

The grith.ai blog reports on an LLM prompt-injection vulnerability that led to 4,000 installations of a compromised version of the Cline utility. For the next eight hours, every developer who installed or updated Cline got OpenClaw - a separate AI agent with full system access - installed globally on their machine without consent. Approximately 4,000 downloads occurred before the package was pulled. The interesting part is not the payload. It is how the attacker got the npm token in the