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While likely an accident, the consequences of FARRAH III's explosion could become serious. Credit: Grandfailure via Getty Images It’s still unclear why a Cold War-era spy satellite named after famed Charlie’s Angels actress Farrah Fawcett recently exploded above Earth . The secretive reconnaissance craft FARRAH III (officially designated USA-32) launched…

An immigration judge has ruled that the president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque can be deported under a controversial, cold-war era law the Trump administration has sought to wield against foreign nationals who have been outspoken about Palestinian rights. Salah Sarsour, a US permanent resident for nearly three decades, was detained…

News Investigators/ UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that humanity is facing its most dangerous nuclear moment since the end of the Cold War. Guterres sounded the alarm on Tuesday at the UN General Assembly’s plenary meeting commemorating the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. “We meet…

Nearly four decades after it was launched to secretly eavesdrop on the Soviet Union, an American spy satellite has suddenly shattered above Earth. What caused the Cold War relic to break apart remains unclear, but the debris now drifting through low Earth orbit (LEO) could create a very real problem…

A Wartburg 353 and Trabant cars parked beside the Berlin Wall while a queue of East German people wait to cross to the West after the Wall fell and travel restrictions were lifted, Berlin, December 1989. Credit: Steve Eason / Hulton Archive via Getty Images No matter what side you…

An American spy satellite deployed during the Cold War has exploded above our planet without warning — and, so far, scientists can't explain why. The debris cloud from this sudden fragmentation, which experts are still trying to measure, could pose a very "real threat" to other spacecraft in a highly…

Espionage existed long before the Cold War, but the decades-long standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union transformed it into a contest of cryptanalysis, surveillance, deception, and increasingly sophisticated technology. The operations from this period have inspired countless books and movies… or at least the operations we know…

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates called on the U.S. to be a leader in regulating the growth of artificial intelligence but warned that getting countries to agree on a global framework could be “more difficult” than Cold War-era negotiations to limit nuclear weapons. “This is more difficult than…

Earlier this month, the Trump administration released a politically charged clone of Tetris called Build the Wall. The Tetris Company (TTC), which owns the rights to the iconic video game, swiftly responded with a thinly veiled legal threat, writing on X: “We take copyright infringement very seriously.” Four days later,…

The US and China open a Cold War-style AI hotline as Britain tells staff to use less AI. See how close the race is. The post US and China Open Cold War-Style AI Hotline appeared first on BeInCrypto...Read More