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After two hundred and forty-one days aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams and his two Roscosmos crewmates are preparing to come home. Their Soyuz MS-twenty-eight spacecraft is set to undock and begin the journey back to Earth, closing out a mission measured in months of science, endurance, and international cooperation at altitude.
Closer to home, cybersecurity researchers at Kaspersky are sounding the alarm over a genuinely unsettling new tactic. A group calling itself XEntry Team has been locking victims' drives with BitLocker and then printing ransom demands directly to office printers. The attacks, documented in Colombia and Mexico, exploited misconfigured systems — a reminder that the weakest link is often the one nobody thought to check.
On the gaming front, Microsoft has quietly made a meaningful move for PC players, launching an official backward compatibility program that brings original Xbox titles to Windows for the very first time. The games are available to purchase or through Xbox Game Pass, and the announcement is already prompting a familiar question — if the library follows you to the PC, why buy the box at all.
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