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Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1

Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1

Published by skeptic

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Tuesday that it plans to begin attacking more than a dozen American companies across the Middle East on Wednesday in retaliation for the killing of Iranian citizens in the ongoing war with the US and Israel. The list of companies includes Apple, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Tesla, and Boeing, which the IRGC accused of enabling United States military targeting operations. The IRGC urged employees of the US firms to evacuate and civilians in the region to stay away. Tuesday’s warning, posted to the IRGC’s Telegram channel, extends a campaign of threats by Iran against American commercial infrastructure since the US and Israel launched their first attack on Tehran on February 28. Iranian drones struck two Amazon Web Services data centers and damaged another in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on March 1, in the first publicly confirmed attack on American-owned hyperscale cloud infrastructure. Banking sites, payment processors, and consumer services across the region crashed as redundancies meant to prevent outages were taken offline. Earlier this month, the IRGC-affiliated …

Did Trump Force China’s Hand? Beijing Nears 500-Jet Boeing Deal Ahead Of Xi Summit

Did Trump Force China’s Hand? Beijing Nears 500-Jet Boeing Deal Ahead Of Xi Summit

Published by Jenni Sidey

Boeing shares moved higher in late-afternoon trading in New York after Bloomberg News reported that the planemaker may be nearing one of the largest sales in its history, potentially to be unveiled during President Trump’s trip to China later this month. People familiar with the potential Boeing-China jet deal said it could be announced during President Trump’s trip to Beijing from March 31 to April 2. They said the deal includes a 500-plane order for 737 Max jets, with additional talks covering approximately 100 widebody aircraft, including 787 Dreamliners and 777Xs. Boeing aircraft have long been at the center of US-China trade talks, as well as tit-for-tat trade disputes. If the deal materializes, it would mark one of Boeing’s biggest sales ever and end years of a Chinese jet sales drought. Bloomberg offered a caveat: There’s a chance that the talks could reach an impasse and a deal not be completed, they cautioned. The nation’s leaders were closing in on a similar agreement last year and in 2023. The two sides are still negotiating the …

NASA head slams Boeing and space agency for Starliner’s failure : NPR

NASA head slams Boeing and space agency for Starliner’s failure : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

This view from the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shows Boeing’s Starliner docked to the International Space Station on July 3, 2024. NASA hide caption toggle caption NASA NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is blaming Boeing and his own agency for botching a test flight of the Starliner spacecraft, designed to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station. A 311-page report details the issues that led to the failure of Starliner’s first crewed test flight, which in June 2024 launched NASA astronauts Butch Willmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Space Force station in Florida. The duo’s launch was initially a success — but as their Starliner spacecraft approached the station, multiple thrusters failed, hampering the crew’s ability to steer toward the station and dock. After months of deliberation, NASA and Boeing made the decision to send Starliner back to Earth without Wilmore and Williams on board. Instead, the astronauts remained on the space station and returned home 9 months later — in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule. In a news …

NASA chief slams Boeing, agency’s failures in botched Starliner astronaut mission

NASA chief slams Boeing, agency’s failures in botched Starliner astronaut mission

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON, Feb 19 : NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on Thursday ripped into Boeing and agency leadership for their handling of the botched Starliner spacecraft mission that left two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station for nearly a year. The U.S. space agency convened a short-notice news conference and released a 300-page report examining the technical and oversight failures behind Starliner’s first crewed flight in 2024, a high-profile mission that kept NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on the ISS for nine months for a test mission initially planned to last roughly a week. “Starliner has design and engineering deficiencies that must be corrected, but the most troubling failure revealed by this investigation is not hardware,” Isaacman wrote in a letter to NASA employees, which he posted in full on X. “It is decision making and leadership that, if left unchecked, could create a culture incompatible with human spaceflight,” he added, echoing findings in the report’s “cultural and organizational” section. NASA retroactively classified the Starliner mission as a “Type A” mishap, the agency’s most …

Air Force None: Why Trump’s Big, Beautiful Boeings Can’t Fly Yet

Air Force None: Why Trump’s Big, Beautiful Boeings Can’t Fly Yet

Published by Sam Flores

Air Force One’s aborted flight to Davos last week was one more stage in a prolonged failure to modernize the large jets that serve American presidents. The current airplanes have been in use for 36 years and are increasingly hard to maintain. Their aging has accelerated as President Trump makes frequent weekend trips to Palm Beach. More crucially, the program to replace them has for a long time become ensnared in the downward spiral of Boeing. Nobody has been more aware of Boeing’s shortcomings than Trump. A month before he began his first term as president, in December 2016, he summoned Dennis Muilenburg, the former CEO of Boeing, to Mar-a-Lago to be grilled on the costs of the Air Force One program, having threatened to cancel it in a tweet. After the meeting, Muilenburg praised Trump’s “business headset” and said he had agreed to cap the program’s costs at $4 billion. After another meeting with Trump in January 2017, Muilenburg said Boeing would “streamline the process” and achieve “substantial cost reduction.” Muilenburg’s objectives were never …