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Tom Cruise appeared to be in jovial spirits as he landed in London on his helicopter with his 'new love' Ana de Armas.

"A Chinese mega-constellation of communications satellites is facing serious delays," reports the South China Morning Post, "that could jeopardise its ambitions to compete with SpaceX's Starlink for valuable orbital resources." Only 90 satellites have been launched into low Earth orbit for the Qianfan broadband network — also known as the Thousand Sails Constellation or G60 Starlink — well short of the project's goal of 648 by the end of this year... Shanghai Yuanxin Satellite Technology, the company leading the project, plans to deploy more than 15,000 satellites by 2030 to deliver direct-to-phone internet services worldwide. To stay on track, Yuanxin — which is backed by the Shanghai municipal government — would have to launch more than 30 satellites a month to achieve its milestones of 648 by the end of 2025 for regional coverage and 1,296 two years later for global connectivity. The New York Times reports that "the other megaconstellation, Guowang, is even farther behind. Despite plans to launch about 13,000 satellites within the next decade, it has 34 in orbit." A constellation has to launch half of its satellites within five years of successfully applying for its frequencies, and complete the full deployment within seven years, according to rules set by the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency that allocates frequencies. The Chinese megaconstellations are behind on these goals. Companies that fail to hit their targets could be required to reduce the size of their megaconstellations. Meanwhile SpaceX "has about 8,000 Starlink satellites in orbit and is expanding its lead every month," the Times writes, citing data from the U.S. Space Force and the nonprofit space-data group CelesTrak. (The Times has even created an animation showing Starlink's 8,000 satellites in orbit.) Researchers for the People's Liberation Army predict that the network will become "deeply embedded in the U.S. military combat system." They envision a time when Starlink satellites connect U.S. military bases and serve as an early missile-warning and interception network.... One of the major reasons for China's delay is the lack of a reliable, reusable launcher. Chinese companies still launch satellites using single-use rockets. After the satellites are deployed, rocket parts tumble back to Earth or become space debris... Six years after [SpaceX's] Falcon 9 began launching Starlink satellites, Chinese firms still have no answer to it... The government has tested nearly 20 rocket launchers in the "Long March" series.

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Replying to a question from Lord Lamont, Reeves claimed the LGPS was managed by '96 different administering authorities' which she wants to reduce to 'eight pools'.

He has been hospitalised with a head wound

One has been charged with violent disorder and assault by beating of an emergency worker and another was charged with failing to remove an item worn

Johnny Depp, 62, is renting a stunning historic mansion in the heart of the East Sussex countryside after opting for life in rural England over Hollywood, MailOnline can reveal.

The Princess of Wales is a longtime fan of Self-Portrait's signature bouclé dresses, having worn several versions over the years.

There's plenty to do at this Essex water park

Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan has waded into the controversy surrounding 22-year-old William McNeil Jr's now viral February arrest.

Martine McCutcheon 's estranged mother Jenny Tomlin has emotionally reached out to the star to beg for a reconciliation after having cut her off following the tragic death of her son.

Leah Williamson files into a packed-out press conference with a level of assuredness fitting for a player who will wear the captain's armband on the night of a major tournament final.

It offers the perfect way to take in the most spectacular views

Trump suggested he would prosecute Democrats for paying celebrities like Oprah and Beyoncé - claiming they were illegally bribing the A-listers to endorse Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

Caitlin Burdi, a passenger aboard a Southwest flight that was forced to make an evasive maneuver to avoid a mid-air collision, said screams filled the cabin as they narrowly missed another aircraft.

Each morning, whenever she opens the kitchen door onto her flower-filled patio, Teresa Marshall de Paoli is forced to relive her trauma all over again.

Though it is almost forgotten today - suppressed, perhaps, by some squeamish historians - the Muslim trade in both black African and white European slaves was deeply feared.

A 23-year-old model has revealed the shock moment she discovered she was dating a CIA agent, who gifted her with lavish designer items and a luxury penthouse. 

The vulnerability-watching "Zero Day Initiative" was started in 2005 as a division of 3Com, then acquired in 2015 by cybersecurity company Trend Micro, according to Wikipedia. But the Register reports today that the initiative's head of threat awareness is now concerned about the source for that exploit of Microsoft's Sharepoint servers: How did the attackers, who include Chinese government spies, data thieves, and ransomware operators, know how to exploit the SharePoint CVEs in such a way that would bypass the security fixes Microsoft released the following day? "A leak happened here somewhere," Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, told The Register. "And now you've got a zero-day exploit in the wild, and worse than that, you've got a zero-day exploit in the wild that bypasses the patch, which came out the next day...." Patch Tuesday happens the second Tuesday of every month — in July, that was the 8th. But two weeks before then, Microsoft provides early access to some security vendors via the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP). These vendors are required to sign a non-disclosure agreement about the soon-to-be-disclosed bugs, and Microsoft gives them early access to the vulnerability information so that they can provide updated protections to customers faster.... One researcher suggests a leak may not have been the only pathway to exploit. "Soroush Dalili was able to use Google's Gemini to help reproduce the exploit chain, so it's possible the threat actors did their own due diligence, or did something similar to Dalili, working with one of the frontier large language models like Google Gemini, o3 from OpenAI, or Claude Opus, or some other LLM, to help identify routes of exploitation," Tenable Research Special Operations team senior engineer Satnam Narang told The Register. "It's difficult to say what domino had to fall in order for these threat actors to be able to leverage these flaws in the wild," Narang added. Nonetheless, Microsoft did not release any MAPP guidance for the two most recent vulnerabilities, CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771, which are related to the previously disclosed CVE-2025-49704 and CVE-2025-49706. "It could mean that they no longer consider MAPP to be a trusted resource, so they're not providing any information whatsoever," Childs speculated. [He adds later that "If I thought a leak came from this channel, I would not be telling that channel anything."] "It also could mean that they're scrambling so much to work on the fixes they don't have time to notify their partners of these other details.

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Kylie Jenner and her famous family dined at the upscale Los Angeles restaurant The Ivy on Saturday, in honor of her grandmother's 91st birthday.

John Wayne is arguably one of the greatest American actors of all time. While filming his 1953 western Hondo, Wayne reportedly 'bullied' and berated one of the child actors in the film