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Blue Origin has received FAA clearance to fly its New Glenn rocket again, following an investigation into a previous mission. The company can now begin preparations for the vehicle's fourth flight, a meaningful step as it works to establish New Glenn as a credible player in the heavy-lift launch market alongside SpaceX.
Shifting to Europe, The Register raises a pointed question about the EU's digital sovereignty ambitions. The uncomfortable reality is that the cloud infrastructure underpinning that vision runs almost entirely on Intel and AMD chips, both of which carry deeply embedded management subsystems that operate below the operating system and remain largely invisible to administrators. It is a significant blind spot in a project built on the premise of independence.
And in financial services, a new warning from TechRadar highlights how AI agents are quietly accumulating far more system access than they actually need to do their jobs. These overprivileged agents are introducing compliance gaps and security risks that institutions are only beginning to reckon with, raising hard questions about governance in an industry where trust is the entire product.
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