Palantir rallies 15% for the week as Iran war boosts prospects, muting Anthropic concern
cnbc - Palantir's stock had its best week since August and outperformed all of its large-cap tech peers after the U.S. attacked Iran.
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Vast Raises $500M for Haven Commercial Space Stations
Ekemini / ventureburn - Vast, a space startup out of California, just pulled in $500 million to speed up work on its Haven commercial space stations. That’s a huge step forward for private companiesThe post Vast Raises $500M for Haven Commercial Space Stations appeared first on …
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Fibionic Raises €3M To Advance Bionic Lightweight Technology
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Austrian deeptech startup fibionic has secured €3 million in seed funding in a round led by Redstone, alongside Euregio+, Caesar, and Leap435, with additional backing from angel investors. Lightweight materials are critical across sectors such as sports e…
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Europe’s push for space autonomy gains momentum as Spain’s PLD Space secures €180 million Series C
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - PLD Space, an Elche-based space transportation scale-up, has closed a €180 million Series C equity funding round to support its transition to commercial operations and the scaling of its industrial and launch capabilities. The round was led by Japanese ma…
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Intelligence Sharing and Counterterrorism Preparedness at the Local Level
Peter Simpson / hstoday - In the early morning hours of February 28, the United States and Israel launched a coordinated military campaign against targets in Iran, raising existing concerns about threats to homeland security — including the potential for retaliatory terror attacks…
- Cloud infrastructure under fire — AWS data centers hit, outages widespread (8)
- Crypto exodus from Iran — Traders scramble for liquidity, withdrawals spike (6)
- Energy and defense market surge — Oil and satellite stocks rally (17)
- Regional escalation and logistics strain — Drones, munitions shortages, shipping disruptions (14)
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Cloud infrastructure under fire — AWS data centers hit, outages widespread
Crypto exodus from Iran — Traders scramble for liquidity, withdrawals spike
Energy and defense market surge — Oil and satellite stocks rally
Regional escalation and logistics strain — Drones, munitions shortages, shipping disruptions
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US Military Accidentally Shoots Down Border Protection Drone With Laser
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The U.S. military used a laser Thursday to shoot down a "seemingly threatening" drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It turned out the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection, law…
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NASA overhauls Artemis program, delaying Moon landing to 2028
Igor Bonifacic / engadget - NASA is making major changes to its Artemis Moon program. On Friday, Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the space agency would carry out an additional flight in 2027 to test commercial lunar landers from SpaceX and/or Blue Origin. The new mission will…
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Archer teams up with Starlink to bring internet access to its Midnight air taxi
Max Knoblauch / sherwood - The announcement marks an “industry-first collaboration,” says Archer.
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ISPTech Raises €5.5M Seed To Improve In-Orbit Mobility
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - InSpacePropulsion Technologies (ISPTech), a German space technology company focused on fast and agile in-orbit manoeuvring, has raised €5.5 million to accelerate deployment of its non-toxic propulsion systems for operational missions. The funding round wa…
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Poland’s FlyFocus Raises €4.5M To Scale European-Made Drone Production
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - FlyFocus, a Warsaw-based defence technology company, has secured €4.5 million in funding. The round was led by ffVC, with participation from the NCBR Investment Fund, the VC arm of Poland’s National Centre for Research and Development. The company will us…
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Seraphim Space surpasses €84 million target with latest close of early-stage SpaceTech fund
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Seraphim Space, a London-based SpaceTech investment group, today announces the latest closing of its oversubscribed early-stage venture fund to support ventures at the Seed and Series A stage – exceeding its previous €84 million ($100 million) target. Inv…
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Uber shows how your first air taxi ride could be booked
techspot - Uber is positioning itself as the booking layer. Joby supplies the aircraft and, eventually, the operations. The preview suggests that the companies believe they're close enough to a working air service to start showing off the booking system. If air taxi…
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Frankenburg Technologies Raises €30M in Series A Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Frankenburg Technologies, a Tallinn, Estonia-based company which specializes in missile systems designed for mass production and rapid regeneration, raised €30M in Series a funding. The round was led by Plural and followed by SmartCap. The raise brought t…
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After a Near-Perfect Test, NASA’s Artemis 2 Rocket Is Rolling Back to the Garage
Ellyn Lapointe and Passant Rabie / gizmodo - NASA has delayed the launch of this historic mission to April, but repairs could take even longer.
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Aalyria Raises $100M in Series B Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Aalyria, a Livermore, CA-based aerospace communications company, raised $100M in Series B funding, at $1.3 Billion valuation. The round was led by Battery Ventures and J2 Ventures, with participation from DYNE and other investors. The company intends to u…
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NASA moon rocket hit by new problem, putting March launch with astronauts in jeopardy
abcnews - NASA's new moon rocket has suffered another setback, putting next month's planned launch with astronauts in jeopardy
- Boeing Starliner failures shake confidence in crewed Artemis support (2)
- Helium flow fault forces Artemis II delay, schedule uncertain (5)
- SLS rolled back to hangar for detailed repairs (3)
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Boeing Starliner failures shake confidence in crewed Artemis support
Helium flow fault forces Artemis II delay, schedule uncertain
SLS rolled back to hangar for detailed repairs
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NASA targets March 6 for Artemis 2 launch to take astronauts around the Moon
Kris Holt / engadget - The Artemis 2 launch is edging closer as NASA has now set a target date for the 10-day mission to get underway. The agency is aiming to launch as soon as March 6 following a successful wet dress rehearsal on Thursday. The first attempt, which took place i…
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NASA chief classifies Starliner flight as "Type A" mishap, says agency made mistakes
Eric Berger / arstechnica - "The most troubling failure revealed by this investigation is not hardware."
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Saudi Arabia Invests $3B in Elon Musk’s xAI Empire
eWEEK Staff / eweek - Money talks.In AI, it also buys megawatts. Humain says it has poured $3 billion into Elon Musk’s xAI, a move that spotlights how the AI race is shifting from splashy launches to buildout math: capital, compute, power, and the places you can actually build…
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Dutch defense chief claims F-35 could be "jailbroken like an iPhone" to bypass US approval
techspot - In an interview with NR Nieuwsradio, Tuinman was asked if the F-35's software could be altered by European forces without the United States' consent should they lose the US as an ally – a prospect that has been repeatedly raised as tensions between the co…
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