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SpaceX said it experienced an anomaly with one if its Starlink satellites that was likely caused by a small explosion. “The anomaly led to venting of the propulsion tank, a rapid decay in semi-major axis by about 4 km [2.5 miles] and the release of a small number of trackable low relatively velocity objects,” Starlink wrote in a post on X. Orbital tracking company LeoLabs assessed that the issue was caused by an “internal energetic source rather than a collision with space debris or another object.”SpaceX said it’s working with NASA and the US Space Force to track the remains…
Anbarasan Ethirajan,Global Affairs Correspondent,Toaha Faroque,BBC Bangla, DhakaandKelly NgWatch: Large crowd burns rubble after death of Bangladesh youth protest leaderStaff at two leading Bangladeshi newspapers say they were “gasping for air” as protesters, roused by the death of a prominent activist, set their offices alight on Thursday.Sharif Osman Hadi, who had emerged as a key figure after last year’s anti-government protests that ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was shot in Dhaka last week and died of his injuries on Thursday.Hundreds of protesters stormed the offices of English newspaper The Daily Star and Bengali daily Prothom Alo on Thursday night and…
Chelsea have been told to bring legendary Brazilian defender Thiago Silva back to Stamford Bridge amid rumours he could return to AC Milan. Silva terminated his contract at Brazilian top-flight side Fluminense on Tuesday and officially became a free agent ahead of the January transfer window. A statement read on the Fluminense social media sites: ‘Fluminense FC announces that defender Thiago Silva formalized, on the afternoon of this Tuesday (12/16), at the Carlos Castilho Training Center, his contract termination with the club. ‘Formed in the youth categories of the Tricolor, Thiago ends his second stint with the club’s professional team.…
The government procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) are gearing up for the 2026 launch of the 15th iteration of the government’s G-Cloud procurement framework, having treated the purchasing agreement to the biggest revamp in its history. The framework’s value and length are both markedly larger and longer, respectively, compared with previous iterations of the framework, with CCS introducing changes to seemingly make G-Cloud better suited for larger cloud deals. For example, the estimated framework value for G-Cloud 15 is tipped to be £14bn, with the agreement set to run for four years to September 2030. In…
If you want to hear Apple Music’s lossless catalog the way it was meant to sound, you will need a little extra hardware. iPhones and most wireless headphones still have limitations when it comes to high-resolution audio, which means a good DAC can make a real difference in clarity and detail. Whether you listen through wired earbuds, studio headphones or a home speaker setup, the right DAC can bring out far more texture in your music.Lossless audio can be confusing at first, especially with different formats and file sizes to consider, but you do not need a complicated setup to…
The Chinese owner of TikTok, ByteDance, has struck a deal with US and global investors to operate its business in America, TikTok’s boss told employees on Thursday.ByteDance has been under pressure from Washington to sell its US operations over national security concerns.As BBC Asia business correspondent Suranjana Tewari explains, it is still unclear what sort of experience TikTok users in the US will get.Read more on this story here.
Gary Lineker is the ‘woke man scorned’ who is playing an incredibly extended and expensive long game in search of ‘revenge’ against the poor BBC. But first, join us in being absolutely stunned at one Manchester City ‘contingency plan’. And in confusion at Ruben Amorim apparently becoming Gareth Southgate. Enzo the world as we know it The news that Enzo Maresca would be considered a viable candidate to replace Pep Guardiola at Manchester City has caused some actual heads to fall off across the football media world. Not least at The Sun, who write that ‘ENZO MARESCA has been named…
Not the ferry in question. Image: Unsplash Remote-access malware discovered aboard an Italian passenger ferry has triggered a major international cybersecurity investigation. Whether it’s a watertight case remains to be seen, but French authorities have arrested a Latvian crew member suspected of installing sophisticated spyware capable of hijacking vessel control systems. The unprecedented cyber infiltration of a ferry carrying over 2,000 passengers has exposed alarming vulnerabilities in maritime infrastructure and sparked fears about state-sponsored attacks targeting civilian transportation networks. French intelligence agencies uncovered what appears to be a coordinated foreign interference operation targeting the GNV Fantastic while docked at the…
President Donald Trump has suspended the US green card lottery scheme in the wake of a mass shooting at Brown University last week in which two people were killed.The suspect, a Portuguese man who was found dead on Thursday, entered the country through the diversity lottery immigrant visa programme (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she has paused the visa scheme under Trump’s direction to “ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous programme”.US officials said they believe the suspect, 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, also killed Portuguese Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
Liverpool striker Alexander Isak will be sold in the summer if he doesn’t improve by March or April, according to former Reds midfielder Didi Hamann. The Reds spent over £400m on new signings in the summer transfer window with big transfers for Isak and Florian Wirtz headlining their deals. It has not quite gone how Isak and Liverpool would have expected after the Swede’s £125m move from Newcastle United, who he scored 62 goals for in 109 appearances. Isak, who took a while to get up to speed after having no pre-season at Newcastle, has scored two goals in 15…