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On 18–19 Dec 2025, ISRO and DRDO fired a rocket-propelled sled at Chandigarh’s RTRS track, cleanly deploying and reefing two 5.8 m drogue parachutes, officially qualifying this critical deceleration stage for India’s first crewed flight.
On 17 Dec 2025 SpaceX lost control of Starlink satellite 35956 when its propulsion tank unexpectedly vented, dropping the craft 4 km and scattering slow-moving debris that will burn up within weeks.
On 19-21 Dec 2025, CERT-In and Hyderabad police publicly flagged a new “GhostPairing” exploit that lets attackers gain full control of WhatsApp accounts via the Linked-Devices feature—no OTP, SIM swap, or password required.
On 17 Dec 2025, Starlink satellite 35956 suffered a propulsion-tank anomaly at 418 km that shattered the craft, cut communications, and set it on a weeks-long tumble toward atmospheric burn-up.
On 19 Dec 2025 Samsung moved the 10-core Exynos 2600 into mass production on its own 2 nm GAA line, jumping a full process node ahead of rivals still shipping 3 nm chips.
On 16 Dec 2025, Webb spectroscopy exposed PSR J2322-2650b—a Jupiter-mass body circling a millisecond pulsar—as the first known world with a helium-and-molecular-carbon atmosphere and a 38 % tidal stretch, overturning existing planet-formation models.
Beijing’s covert six-year project produced an operational extreme-ultraviolet lithography machine in early-2025—China’s first ability to generate EUV light without ASML hardware.
On 17 Dec 2025, the U.S. Senate ended a year of acting leadership by confirming billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman as NASA’s 15th administrator in a 67–30 vote.
On 17 December 2025 OpenAI pushed GPT Image 1.5 live to all ChatGPT users and API clients, adding a standalone Images hub with four-times faster generation and pinpoint, instruction-faithful editing.
On 17 December 2025 the European Commission unveiled draft rules replacing the bloc’s total 2035 ban on new internal-combustion cars with a looser target that requires only a 90 % CO₂ reduction versus 2021, letting automakers keep selling hybrids and range-extenders.
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