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NASA and Amazon Web Services made history this week, streaming the first ever four K video from the Moon to twenty five million viewers. The signal traveled over two hundred fifty thousand miles at two hundred sixty megabits per second — a remarkable feat that puts your home Wi-Fi struggles in sharp perspective.
Shifting from outer space to office life, Microsoft has confirmed that Publisher, its long-running desktop publishing tool, will reach end of support in October of two thousand twenty six. It's a quiet farewell to software that once anchored school newsletters and small business flyers across a generation of Windows users — a reminder that even the most familiar tools eventually age out.
And in a story that needs no embellishment, a rogue squirrel briefly took over a Meta office in Bangkok after apparently arriving inside a delivery package. One employee was injured before the animal was finally caught. It raises a genuine question about what, exactly, Meta's threat modeling looks like for wildlife-based disruptions.
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