Elon Musk’s SpaceX Bails on Starlink Funding for Ukraine
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SpaceX claims it can no more money Starlink satellite web solution in war-torn Ukraine, according to records gotten by CNN. Greater than 20,000 Starlink terminals have actually been contributed to the nation given that Russia attacked in February, as well as the solution has actually been a lifeline for Ukrainian armed forces initiatives. However the $120 million it will certainly require to money the solution with completion of the year is way too much for SpaceX, as well as the firm has actually apparently asked the Pentagon to select up the expense moving forward.
The move to pull funding comes at an inauspicious time for Elon Musk, SpaceX’s outspoken CEO. The leaked letter asking the Pentagon to pay for Ukraine’s Starlink terminals and service is dated September 8. Less than a month later, on October 3, Musk got into a fight on Twitter with Ukrainian officials after suggesting the country end the war by largely agreeing to Russia’s demands. While a report said that Musk had a call with Russian president Vladimir Putin prior to his tweet about Ukraine appeasing Russia, both the billionaire and the Kremlin deny the call took place.
Update 11:10 pm ET, 10-15-22: On Saturday afternoon, following publication, Musk tweeted that SpaceX would continue to money Starlink for Ukraine. “The hell with it,” Musk wrote, “even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.”
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (often known as LDS or the Mormon Church) revealed this week that hackers breached its systems in late March. In a statement, the church said that it did not disclose the intrusion until now at the request of law enforcement. While LDS says that donation histories and payment card information were not accessed, the data may include “your username, membership record number, full name, gender, email address(es), birthdate, mailing address, phone number(s), and preferred language.” According to the church, federal authorities believe the breach was “part of a pattern of state-sponsored cyberattacks aimed at organizations and governments around the world that are not intended to cause harm to individuals.”
Signal users on Android collectively groaned this week after the Signal Foundation announced that it would no longer support SMS and MMS messaging in the app. The convenient feature allowed Android users to message anyone, regardless of whether they were on Signal, with the app. (Signal’s iOS version did not support this feature.) Signal said in its announcement that the move was due to the inherent insecurity of SMS as well as the potential for users to forget that they weren’t sending end-to–end encrypted messages to non-Signal contacts. Signal’s lead Android developer, Greyson Parrelli, added in a forum post that part of the reason Signal was ditching SMS as well as MMS was because Signal “doesn’t play well” with RCS, Google’s new messaging protocol.
Not even bear-based elections are safe these days. On Sunday, authorities behind Katmai National Park’s annual Fat Bear Week contest discovered that someone had monkeyed with the vote by flooding it with some 9,000 fake ballots in favor of a bear named 435. Fat Bear election integrity officials soon discovered thousands of fake email addresses linked to the bogus ballots, corrected the tally, as well as added a captcha to the site to fend off the spammers. Ultimately, a 1,400-pound grizzly aptly named 747 overtook 435 by some 7,000 votes as well as won the competition. “Bears don’t actually get anything from competing in or winning Fat Bear Week,” Amber Kraft, who helps run the competition at the park, told Bloomberg. “Despite which bear wins the most ballots in the Fat Bear Week competitors, they are all champions.”
