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Two astronauts have stepped outside the International Space Station to begin the first of two spacewalks, scheduled one week apart, aimed at completing a long-running upgrade to the station's aging power system. It's painstaking, high-stakes work carried out roughly two hundred fifty miles above Earth.
On the ground, Ukrainian forces are leaning heavily on remote-controlled wheeled robots to lay defensive wire across exposed battlefield terrain — keeping engineers out of direct fire. The numbers tell the story: missions jumped from roughly seven thousand five hundred in January to nearly twenty thousand by July of two thousand twenty six, a near tripling in just months.
And a cautionary tale for anyone downloading financial apps: a fake cryptocurrency trading platform called Padre Terminal made it onto Apple's App Store and was linked to the theft of roughly twenty three thousand dollars from twenty seven Solana wallets. It's a reminder that app store review processes, however rigorous, are not foolproof — and that bad actors are getting more convincing.
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