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Quantum Networking Gets a Control Plane

Cisco introduces the Quantum Network Controller research prototype delivering entanglement as a service to heterogeneous, distributed quantum networks today.

Gibraltar imaged by IRIDE Eaglet II

IRIDE Eaglet II satellites launched earlier have returned first images, including a view of Gibraltar.

October 2026 Satellite Puzzler

October 2026 Satellite Puzzler: NASA challenges readers to identify the location and explain why the satellite image is interesting.

Bridging technical depth and usability: The story behind Radar’s redesign

Cloudflare redesigned Radar to make real-time global traffic and outage data accessible to journalists, researchers, and everyday users.

Sentinel-3C returns its first views of Earth

Sentinel-3C, launched two weeks prior, returned first images and measurements from two key instruments, confirming operational status for Earth monitoring.

The director’s take: telling Galileo’s story through film

ESA commissioned a 2025 documentary to celebrate thirty years of European satellite navigation and capture Galileo's history.

IBM Advances to Stage C of DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative

IBM advances to Stage C of DARPA's quantum benchmarking initiative for fault-tolerant computing.

NASA Glenn Invites Phase 1 Proposals for Aerospace Power Systems Laboratory

NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland seeks Phase 1 proposals for the Aerospace Power Systems Laboratory design and construction.

PTC acquisition positions Schneider Electric to challenge Siemens

Schneider Electric's acquisition of PTC provides a digital thread from design to operations, but integration of data and software is needed, says Interact Analysis.

“Superpowers can be learned”

EPFL assistant professor Clément Pit-Claudel wins best teaching award for 2026.

DefenseScoop: “White House, Anduril announce plans for new ‘software-defined’ shipyard to help build attack submarines”

Billions of dollars are slated to be invested in the Arsenal-2 facility in Baltimore County, Maryland.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: What’s Happening

Cisco Blogs marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month with valuable offers.

Jammertest pumps up the jam in Norway

Every September, airwaves over Andøya, Norway experience heavy jamming for one week.

Italy’s IRIDE completes Eaglet II constellation

Italy’s IRIDE programme completed its Eaglet II constellation with the final satellite batch reaching orbit, enhancing environmental, emergency and security data services.

Space Force laying groundwork to connect future satellite ‘enclaves’ as it prepares for additional launches

The Pentagon pursues multiple initiatives to enhance its space posture, including the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture and the Space Data Network.

The next generation’s guide to the new space economy

MIT student report provides guidance for aspiring space leaders and investors.

Earth from Space: Typhoon Surigae

Sentinel-1 radar reveals sea surface beneath Typhoon Surigae clouds in false-colour polarised image.

Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign

OpenAI disrupted a coordinated model-distillation campaign and is strengthening defenses against adversarial extraction.

DevNet Latin & Hispanic Heritage Month recap

Cisco DevNet celebrates Latin and Hispanic Heritage Month with a Spanish-language video series featuring four engineers shaping network automation, highlighting the value of multilingual tech education.

EarthCARE’s view of volcanic plume boosts air safety

EarthCARE satellite captured vertical profiles of volcanic plume constituents following Anak Krakatau eruption.

NASA, International Partners Advance Work on Space Crops

NASA, CSA, and the German Aerospace Center signed a joint statement to begin preparatory work for an Earth-based demonstrator to learn how to grow crops on the Moon.

NSTGRO 2026

NASA NSTGRO 2026 features PAM origami-inspired docking ports, intelligent cislunar constellations, photonic SNSPD readout, and compact magnetic heat switches for thermal management.

Preventing quantum downgrade attacks against IPsec

A sophisticated attacker with a quantum computer can exploit a protocol design flaw to downgrade post-quantum IPsec tunnels to classical crypto.

Automating Post-Quantum IPsec on Cisco Routers – IPsec Series, Part 12

Cisco blogs post demonstrates Ansible automation over NETCONF configuring IPsec with proof of ML-KEM and ML-DSA negotiation.

Under the Microscope: NASA-Made Material for Moon Manufacturing

NASA microscope images reveal a colorful, kaleidoscope-like crystal structure in a new material intended for future space manufacturing.

Is your domain using post-quantum encryption? Now you can see for yourself

Cloudflare added post-quantum encryption visibility into TLS 1.3 HTTP Analytics, Log Explorer, and Logpush.

Plastic Composition Analysis Workshop: Identifying reference material, data, and measurement needs

NIST hosts virtual workshop to identify critical challenges in plastic composition analysis and measurement needs

AMD to Acquire World Labs to Advance the Future of AI Compute

AMD acquires World Labs to integrate AI model research expertise and strengthen the open AI ecosystem.

How fast is the web? Explore billions of real-user measurements with BEACON

Cloudflare open-sources BEACON dataset, releasing billions of anonymized Real User Monitoring performance records on Google BigQuery.

New tests for rendezvous and docking interoperability

Space missions are currently one-shot affairs with satellites operating until fuel depletion.

ESA and the EU partner with Museo Galileo on new exhibition

ESA, Museo Galileo, and the European Commission partner to explore Galileo Galilei's surprising connections to Europe's satellite navigation system.

Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2026 Annual Minimum Extent

Arctic sea ice reached its 2026 annual minimum extent on Sept. 12, per NASA and NSIDC.

US-India Satellite Captures Time-lapse Video of Volcanic Eruption

Lava spreads like tendrils from Krasheninnikov's northern crater on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

Earth from Space: Venetian Lagoon

IRIDE satellites captured a 17 May 2026 image of the Venetian Lagoon in northern Italy.

NASA Tests Dual Mode Propulsion CubeSat Ahead of Launch

NASA tests a dual-mode propulsion CubeSat, replacing volatile fuels with integrated maneuvering systems ahead of launch.

2026-2027 DWU: High School Engineering Challenge

NASA and FAA partners seek ways to increase safety in the National Airspace System as aircraft numbers grow.

NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-14 Assignments for Space Station Mission

Four crew members from three agencies launch to the ISS in spring 2027 for a long-duration science expedition as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-14 mission.

IBM Acquires Logiq Consulting to Expand Secure Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity Capabilities in the UK

IBM acquires Logiq Consulting to enhance cybersecurity and sovereign technology capabilities for regulated UK clients.

PQC for Dummies—Cisco Special Edition: Why we wrote it

Cisco released PQC for Dummies to help IT teams address quantum computing complexities.

Improving synthesis prediction of small molecules at scale with RetroChimera

Custom-made molecules advance medicine, materials, and agriculture, but production remains slow and expensive.

Batteries that safely break down in the GI tract could improve ingestible devices

New ingestible batteries made from bioresorbable materials safely break down in the GI tract for drug delivery and sensing applications.

Arctic Melt Season Length Levels Off

Arctic melt season length stabilized around 2010 after dramatic lengthening during the satellite era.

Pentagon taps Northrop Grumman, True Anomaly for recon satellites that can monitor other space systems

Pentagon awards contracts to Northrop Grumman and True Anomaly for the GHOST-R initiative, enabling recon satellites to monitor other space systems.

Joint Chiefs chairman says U.S. forces must prepare to be ‘hunted’ by autonomous systems

Joint Chiefs chairman warns U.S. forces must prepare to be hunted by autonomous systems, jammed across the spectrum, and tracked in real time.

Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate: Names the speaker. Carries the meaning.

Qwen Research states simultaneous interpretation must hear clearly and translate accurately, not only translate fast.

MIT startups inspire with impressive presentations at Demo Day 2026

MIT startups presented ventures addressing manufacturing, cybersecurity, and healthcare spending at Demo Day 2026.

NASA Awards Launch Services for StarBurst Gamma-Ray Detector

NASA selected SpaceX to launch the StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to investigate neutron star mergers and short gamma-ray bursts.

ESA awards contracts for Europe’s EOGS blueprint

ESA awarded parallel architecture study contracts to ICEYE and Leonardo for Europe's future Earth Observation Governmental Service blueprint.

REVERSAL-BENCH: A Reversibility Axis and Reset Oracle for Measuring the Reset-Free RL Cliff

Apple ML research identifies continuous policy training without external resets as a central goal of autonomous reinforcement learning.

Galileo's first civil authenticated position fix in spoofing conditions

On 16 September, five Galileo satellites transmitted a new encrypted signal over Europe for two hours of testing.

Passion Meets Precision at NASA’s Flight Research Lab

Derek Abramson, Justin Hall, and Justin Link built radio-controlled aircraft in their garages and homes before joining NASA’s Flight Research Lab.

NASA Visits Schools Strengthening Florida’s Skilled Workforce

NASA awarded $10.5 million to seven organizations through its new State Hubs initiative.

NASA Watches Earth’s Weight, Finds Center of Mass

Seasonal changes redistribute enough water around Earth to shift the planet’s center of mass back and forth by fractions of an inch relative to its geometric center, NASA reports.

A new way to control infrared light in real time

EPFL researchers developed ultra-thin silicon structures enabling real-time infrared light control.

Cisco UCS Manager: Celebrating the legacy, shaping the future with Cisco Intersight

Cisco UCS Manager ends 17 years of infrastructure management, succeeded by Cisco Intersight with centralized visibility, automation, and scale.

NIST Awards More Than $30 Million for MEP Centers in 11 States and Puerto Rico

NIST awards over $30 million to MEP centers in 11 states and Puerto Rico to boost advanced manufacturing adoption among small and medium-sized manufacturers.

ESA's Celeste demonstrates 5G positioning signals from low Earth orbit

ESA's Celeste IOD-2 satellite successfully demonstrated 5G positioning signal transmission and reception in low Earth orbit, marking a key step toward integrating satellite navigation and mobile communications.

1.1.1.1 now supports post-quantum DNSSEC, all 2,420 bytes of it

Cloudflare Blog reports 1.1.1.1 now validates DNSSEC signatures using NIST's post-quantum ML-DSA-44 algorithm.

IBM, Lockheed Martin Announce Swiss Quantum Innovation Hub at ETH Zurich, Anchored by Switzerland’s First IBM Quantum Computer

IBM and Lockheed Martin will initiate research projects with select Swiss academic institutions, anchored by Switzerland's first IBM Quantum Computer at ETH Zurich.

Cisco Blogs: “The Honest Migration Playbook – IPsec Series, Part 11”

Cisco 8000 routers now run a fully quantum-safe IPsec tunnel with both live pillars on real hardware.

NIST-Developed Quantum Sensors Improve Nuclear Monitoring

NIST quantum sensors enable more accurate nuclear material monitoring at power plants and weapons facilities.

FLEX and Sentinel-3C launch highlights

ESA launched FLEX and Sentinel-3C together on a Vega-C rocket from French Guiana, marking a milestone in Europe's Earth Observation Programmes.

A team of teams like never before: rehearsing a unique launch at ESA mission control

On 15 September, two spacecraft will launch together from Kourou aboard the same launcher.

Introducing automatic remediation policies with Cloudflare CASB

Cloudflare CASB policies introduce a native automation engine on the developer platform to automatically remediate SaaS risks.

How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

MIT researcher uses GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run quantum computing experiments, analyze results, and calibrate qubits.

Now generally available: See how Stack Automation by Quali cuts deployment time

Stack Automation by Quali, co-developed with Cisco, is now generally available to reduce manual infrastructure deployment time from weeks to minutes.

Automate user-level custom permissions for Amazon Quick

Amazon Quick custom permissions enforce least-privilege access by toggling features per user.

Anak Krakatau Rumbles Again

Anak Krakatau eruption lofted ash, disrupting thousands of flights and degrading air quality.

Deploying Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM

Walkthrough covers cluster provisioning, NVFP4 quantization, OpenAI-compatible endpoint with reasoning, tool calling and speculative decoding.

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency

In this release the weights of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a multimodal MoE model, are opened. It serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4 and builds on the hybrid Gated DeltaNet + Gated Attention design introduced with Qwen3.

NASA updates its community-college aerospace challenge

The NCAS programme connects community-college studies with NASA's missions, experts and aerospace careers.

Cisco reports on latency monitoring at Black Hat

The event's network and security operations teams used ThousandEyes, Linux command-line tests and packet evidence.

OpenAI announces GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI presents the model as a new generation spanning computer use, coding, cybersecurity and science.

NASA probes the structure of radio-disrupting atmospheric layers

NASA reports that five probes sampled a sporadic E layer simultaneously.

Cloudflare presents adaptive rules for automated bot defence

Cloudflare describes Adaptive Intelligence as an engine that learns from live traffic signals and deploys disposable detection rules.

Intel Agentic PCs Give ASU Football an On-Field Edge

Intel's agentic PCs provided Arizona State University football with an on-field edge during competition.

From Release Days to Continuous Promotion: Building the Foundation for Agentic Promotions

Learn how ThousandEyes transformed its deployment culture from manual, fragmented release cycles to a centralized, GitOps-driven model, enhancing digital resilience and developer productivity, that is also being adopted by other Cisco business units.

AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)

AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes SQL directly against files like Parquet, CSV, and JSON.

OpenAI Announces GPT-6 Astra with Critical Cybersecurity Capability

OpenAI's most capable broadly deployed model reaches the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under its Preparedness Framework.

Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini

Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.

NASA selects Blue Origin for Mars Telecommunications Network contract

Blue Origin has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract to develop NASA's next-generation Mars communications infrastructure, enabling reliable high-bandwidth services for current and future Mars missions.

OpenAI winds down model contract with Cursor following SpaceX acquisition

OpenAI has decided to wind down its contract providing models to Cursor after the company was acquired by SpaceX.

From Isolated Agents to Collective Intelligence: Why A2A Is the Protocol the Agentic SOC Has Been Waiting For

The Agentic SOC needs two protocols, not one. Learn how MCP and A2A work together as the vertical and horizontal layers of multi-agent security operations.