Ukraine says it can’t stop Russian strikes because Starshield is limited again

Ukraine says it can’t stop Russian strikes because Starshield is limited again

fivenewscrypto    novembre 13, 2026   

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today that Starshield has again been disabled on fast-moving drones in Ukrainian territory occupied by Russian forces, and that the US has provided "very little" information about the return of the restriction.

"We have detected speed restrictions on Starshield on our Ukrainian territory again, in the temporarily occupied parts of Ukraine," Zelenskyy said in a speech at the 9th European Political Community Summit in Ireland. "The speed limit is back at 161 kilometers per hour—that’s 100 miles per hour."

Zelenskyy's allegation is that Starshield—the military variant of SpaceX's Starlink satellite service—stops working on Ukrainian military drones when they travel above 161 kilometers per hour.

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Google faces calls for AI moratoriums in schools after Gemini pilot backlash

Google faces calls for AI moratoriums in schools after Gemini pilot backlash

fivenewscrypto    novembre 13, 2026   

CHICAGO—Families joined protests in seven cities nationwide on Wednesday, rallying against what they see as Google’s bid to entrench its AI models in schools, turn kids of all ages into Gemini guinea pigs, and hook them on AI.

The backlash follows a Google statement last week, confirming that there will be no way for students to use Google Search without AI. While Google claimed it was giving schools “more choice, not less”—by turning off Search, Gemini, and Gemini Notebook by default—it would not provide an option that allowed Search without AI. For students, the only way to avoid interacting with AI was to remember to add “-ai” to every query, parents worried.

In Chicago, many families showed up to protest Google, despite cold, rainy weather. Waving signs, dozens of protesters marched up to Google’s downtown office as workers seemed to be leaving for the day, shouting chants like “Hey Google, nice try, we don’t want your Gemini” and “Hey, Google, leave our kids alone!”

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Netflix releases new trailer for Ray Gunn

Netflix releases new trailer for Ray Gunn

fivenewscrypto    novembre 13, 2026   

We caught the first trailer for the upcoming Netflix animated film Ray Gunn in September and were charmed by director Brad Bird's blend of a Jetsons-like future with classic 1930s noir detective thrillers. Bird has described it as a mashup of The Maltese Falcon and Buck Rogers, and the latest trailer definitely gives off that energy.

As previously reported, Bird has directed some of our all-time favorite animated films: The Iron Giant (1999), The Incredibles (2004), and Ratatouille (2007), with the latter two snagging well-deserved Oscar wins. He's been kicking around the idea for Ray Gunn for the last 30 years, working on his many other film projects while the Ray Gunn script—co-written by Matthew Robbins, who also co-wrote 1987’s Batteries Not Included with Bird—“stayed in a filing cabinet at Warner Brothers,” the director said earlier this year.

The film’s inspiration came when Bird heard the opening of the B-52s’ “Planet Claire” (a personal favorite that also provides the soundtrack to the new trailer) and initially thought it was a cover of Henry Mancini’s theme music from the classic TV show Peter Gunn. Bird is a longtime fan of film noir and hard-boiled detectives, and he came up with the idea of a futuristic detective named Ray Gunn (a play on "raygun," of course). “It’s film noir and a hard-boiled detective story, but it’s got a lot more comedy and a lot more action than the average film noir,” said Bird.

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Man's secret use of synthetic testosterone for cows nearly destroyed his heart

Man's secret use of synthetic testosterone for cows nearly destroyed his heart

fivenewscrypto    novembre 13, 2026   

For 11 years, a Massachusetts man had an alarming array of health problems, most notably that his heart kept failing. He landed in the hospital over and over again, needed life support at one point, spent years going to specialists, and underwent a barrage of tests along the way.

But through it all, he never revealed a key detail behind his ailments: He was taking powerful, illicit synthetic testosterone derivatives (aka anabolic-androgenic steroids, or AAS). One of the drugs he took was approved only for use in animals; it's primarily used to beef up cows.

Left in the dark, his doctors had to puzzle this out on their own. In a case report in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, they explain how they did it. They also offer a warning: These cases will only become more common, and clinicians need to know what they look like.

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T-Mobile illegally imposed 50GB cap on low-income home Internet plan, NY says

T-Mobile illegally imposed 50GB cap on low-income home Internet plan, NY says

fivenewscrypto    novembre 13, 2026   

T-Mobile violated a New York state law by imposing a 50GB-per-month data cap and reducing speeds to less than a megabit per second on home Internet plans it is required to offer people with low incomes, New York government officials alleged.

T-Mobile agreed to a settlement requiring it to scrap the data and speed limits, to offer the required low-income plans to more parts of the state, and to make it easier for customers to find information about the plans. The settlement requires T-Mobile to eliminate the speed limits and expand availability of the plans within 120 days.

The alleged legal violation and the settlement are related to T-Mobile's wireless home Internet service, not the company's mobile plans. Governor Kathy Hochul and New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the settlement on Monday, saying that a state investigation found T-Mobile violated the New York Affordable Broadband Act (ABA).

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Anduril says its first satellite can see adversaries maneuver in orbital night

Anduril says its first satellite can see adversaries maneuver in orbital night

fivenewscrypto    novembre 13, 2026   

Anduril Industries has announced the successful demonstration of a new satellite-based sensor designed to track other spacecraft that may be hiding their maneuvers in Earth's shadow.

Funded with Anduril's internal capital, the company's oven-sized satellite launched on a SpaceX rideshare mission in July with a package of tech demo payloads: an edge-compute processor, a power-management system adaptable to different mission types, and a long-wave infrared space sensor capable of detecting other objects in orbit.

Anduril reported on the success of the tech demo mission Tuesday. The company's satellite, named Anduril-216, flies about 590 km (366 mi) above Earth, spending about one-third of each orbit in darkness. Anduril-216's night passes allow its infrared imager to shine.

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NASA's secret weapon in the lunar space race may be ... procurement reform?

NASA's secret weapon in the lunar space race may be ... procurement reform?

fivenewscrypto    novembre 12, 2026   

Senior NASA officials held a lengthy news conference last weekend, laying out a series of lunar contract awards, new contract opportunities, and mission decisions. They followed one after the other: landers, nuclear-powered rovers, scouting drones, power generation, storage, and communication satellites.

It never seemed to end.

"Hopefully, we're keeping industry on their toes trying to catch up to all the solicitations we're doing," said Carlos García-Galán, manager of the Moon Base Program, more than 90 minutes into the news conference. "This is what it takes to do the Moon Base in the timeline we have set forth."

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