Month: August 2025
NASA plans to place a Nuclear reactor on Moon
NASA already has plans to put a small nuclear reactor on the moon but this directive would create a timeline despite the agency’s heavy budget cut.President Donald Trump’s administration has focused on manned spaceflight and has proposed a 2026 budget that would increase funds for human spaceflight, while it pushes to cut budgets for other
China cites ‘backdoor safety risk’ in Nvidia’s H20 AI chip
The H20 chip was designed specifically to comply with U.S. export restrictions on advanced semiconductors. Washington recently lifted some of those curbs, reportedly in return for increased access to Chinese rare earth minerals, just as trade talks in Stockholm aimed to extend a temporary tariff truce. Chinese authorities have summoned U.S. chip giant Nvidia Corp.
Scientists plot to change our weather
Rainmaker, a California company which specialises in “cloud seeding” technology using chemical compounds sprayed from an aircraft to induce localised rainfall, found itself the target of online finger pointing after one of its flights had dispersed 70g of silver iodide some 100 miles from the site of the disaster a full two days before it
ICE-Europol operation seizes BlackSuit servers
A joint U.S.-European operation has seized infrastructure belonging to the BlackSuit ransomware gang, a notorious hacking group blamed for several major cyberattacks in recent years.BlackSuit has been one of the more prolific ransomware operations in recent years, targeting U.S. cities like Dallas, as well as organizations in the manufacturing, communications and healthcare industries. At the
India to penalised Higher learning institutions due to high rates of research retractions
India’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) assesses higher-education institutions every year. It takes into account factors including teaching, engagement and research-impact metrics such as publication and citation counts.India’s national university ranking will start penalizing institutions if a sizable number of papers published by their researchers are retracted — a first for an institutional ranking system.
Google to allow games of skill to be advertised
Google has proposed to allow real money games on Google Play in India as part of addressing anti-competition concerns.Besides, the technology major has suggested changes to Google Ads Policy and permits games of skill to be advertised in India, subject to certain conditions.With respect to its Ads Policy, Google said it will allow games of