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A significant question is hanging over one of science fiction's most beloved franchises. Star Trek is celebrating sixty years, with events this week at Rome's MIA Market, but Roddenberry Entertainment's Trevor Roth is calling it a crossroads moment for the franchise following the Paramount and Warner Bros. merger. The path forward remains genuinely uncertain.
On the cybersecurity front, a pair of vulnerabilities discovered in the PHP programming language sent shockwaves through the internet this week, taking down services from Pokémon HOME to Sleep to Champions. The Pokémon Company's apps are now coming back online, but the incident is a reminder of how deeply interconnected our digital infrastructure really is.
And perhaps the most consequential story today involves Palantir and NATO's AI systems. The American software firm is confirming there is no kill switch on AI tools it has deployed for NATO, a disclosure that lands with particular weight in Europe, where concerns about dependence on American technology have been growing since disruptions to Ukraine's Starshield satellite access. The question of who controls critical AI infrastructure is no longer theoretical.
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