SpaceX Starship V3 lifts off on Flight 12 after last-second pad glitch delay
On 22 May 2026, SpaceX successfully launched its upgraded 124-m Starship V3 from Starbase a day after a hydraulic-pin failure halted the countdown at T-40 s.
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Washington Trades $2 Billion for Minority Stakes in Nine U.S. Quantum Start-Ups and Foundries
On 21 May 2026 the Commerce Department signed letters of intent to invest $2.013 billion from the CHIPS Act in nine quantum-computing firms in exchange for non-controlling equity, marking the first time the U.S. has tied federal R&D money for the sector to government ownership positions.
Eurojust-Backed Raids Dismantle CINEMAGOAL Credential-Hijack Streaming Ring
On 22 May 2026, “Operazione Tutto Chiaro” carried out over 100 synchronized raids in Italy, France, and Germany, seizing servers that let the CINEMAGOAL app rebroadcast Sky, DAZN, Netflix and others by cycling fake subscription credentials every three minutes.
SpaceX Scrubs Inaugural Starship V3 Launch Minutes Before Liftoff
Starship Flight 12’s maiden V3 launch was aborted at T-40 seconds on 21 May 2026 after a pad-tower hydraulic pin failed, delaying the long-awaited test to at least the following day.
TeamPCP Heist: Malicious VS Code Extension Breaches 3,800 GitHub Internal Repositories
On 20 May 2026 GitHub revealed that a single poisoned Visual Studio Code plugin on an employee laptop let the TeamPCP supply-chain gang siphon off roughly 3,800 of its private repositories, which the hackers are now offering for at least US $50,000 on underground forums.
Trump Abruptly Shelves Voluntary AI Cybersecurity Order Minutes Before Signing
On 21 May 2026, only hours before an Oval Office ceremony, President Trump cancelled the signing of an executive order that would have asked AI developers to give the U.S. government and critical-infrastructure firms 90-day pre-release access to their most advanced models for security testing.
ESA–China SMILE Satellite Finally Lifts Off to Image Earth’s Magnetosphere
On 19 May 2026 a Vega-C rocket from Kourou launched SMILE, the first full ESA–Chinese Academy of Sciences science mission, kicking off a three-year campaign to capture the world’s first global X-ray views of Earth’s magnetic shield.
Colossal Hatches 26 Chicks in 3D-Printed Egg, Opening Path to Giant Moa Project
On 19 May 2026, Colossal Biosciences revealed it had reared 26 healthy chickens entirely inside a silicone-membrane, 3D-printed “egg,” claiming the scalable system clears the surrogate barrier to reviving New Zealand’s extinct giant moa.
Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash Turns Search Into an Agentic AI Platform
On 20 May 2026, Google replaced its classic keyword-based Search experience with a Gemini 3.5 Flash–powered ‘Intelligent Search Box’ and background information agents, marking the product’s largest redesign since 1998.
Colossal Hatches 26 Chicks in 3-D Printed “Shells,” Pushing Moa De-Extinction Bid Forward
On 19 May 2026, Colossal Biosciences announced it successfully raised 26 healthy chickens inside open-top, silicone-membrane eggs—its first proof that a fully synthetic, size-scalable incubation vessel can replace a natural shell.
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