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Blue Origin had a rough day in Florida, where its New Glenn rocket broke apart in a dramatic fireball during testing. The explosion raises serious questions about the company's timeline and its ability to compete in an increasingly crowded commercial launch market. Jeff Bezos has deep pockets, but setbacks like this cost more than money — they cost momentum.
Across the Atlantic, Proton's chief technology officer is sounding the alarm over the United Kingdom's new digital competition framework, calling it nothing more than words on a page without real enforcement. The concern is that rules targeting Apple and Google's grip on app stores and payment systems will simply gather dust while smaller tech companies continue to get squeezed out of fair market access.
And on the security front, a new survey finds eighty-two percent of IT professionals experienced a web-based security incident in the past year, with remote work, personal devices, and sprawling SaaS tools all contributing to the exposure. Perhaps most striking is that confidence among those same professionals remains high — which may itself be part of the problem.
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