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Marcin Frąckiewicz

CEO of TS2 Space and founder of TS2.tech. Expert in satellites, telecommunications, and emerging technologies, covering trends in space, AI, and connectivity.

Ransomware Topples 158-Year-Old Company, Nuclear Agency Hacked, and Breaches Expose Millions – Cybersecurity Roundup (July 21–28, 2025)

Ransomware Topples 158-Year-Old Company, Nuclear Agency Hacked, and Breaches Expose Millions – Cybersecurity Roundup (July 21–28, 2025)

UK Co-op confirmed a data breach affecting 6.5 million members, with attackers stealing an Active Directory database after a social‑engineering password reset on April 22 and deploying the DragonForce ransomware. KNP Logistics, a British transport firm founded in 1865, collapsed into administration after the Akira ransomware breached it in June 2024 via a guessed weak password, costing 730 jobs. Louis Vuitton disclosed data breaches in South Korea, Turkey, the UK, Italy, and Sweden beginning in early July 2025, linked to the ShinyHunters group, exposing names, birthdates, addresses, emails, and purchase history while stating no payment data was compromised. Allianz Life
28 July 2025
See Your House from Space? Inside the World of Live Satellite Maps and Weather from Orbit

See Your House from Space? Inside the World of Live Satellite Maps and Weather from Orbit

Google Earth was downloaded over one billion times in its first six years. Google Earth’s Time Machine covers 1984 to 2022 in a 4D interactive map built from millions of satellite photos. The Landsat program began in 1972 and offers a 50+ year global land-surface data record, with Landsat 8 and 9 providing 30-meter resolution imagery. Sentinel-2A and 2B image the entire Earth’s land every 5 days at 10-meter resolution (20 meters for some infrared bands). Maxar’s WorldView-3 and WorldView-4 offer 30-centimeter imagery, and the upcoming WorldView Legion aims for up to 15 revisits per day at 30 cm. Planet
28 July 2025
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From the Original iPhone to iPhone 17: The Epic Evolution of Apple’s Iconic Smartphone (2007–2025)

From the Original iPhone to iPhone 17: The Epic Evolution of Apple’s Iconic Smartphone (2007–2025)

The original iPhone, released June 29, 2007, featured a 3.5″ multitouch display, 2G EDGE data, a 2 MP camera, iPhone OS 1.0, and no App Store, selling roughly 300,000 units in its first weekend. iPhone 3G arrived July 11, 2008, adding 3G data and GPS, launching the App Store, with 8GB or 16GB storage and a $199 price on contract. iPhone 3GS released June 19, 2009, offering faster CPU and more RAM, up to 32GB storage, a 3 MP camera with video, and Voice Control. iPhone 4, launched June 24, 2010, introduced a new glass-and-metal design, Retina Display at 960×640
28 July 2025
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Quantum Leap: Inside SuperQ’s Mission to Be the “ChatGPT of Quantum Computing”

Quantum Leap: Inside SuperQ’s Mission to Be the “ChatGPT of Quantum Computing”

From March 21, 2025 to July 10, 2025, Atco Mining pivoted to quantum computing by acquiring Staque’s Super platform, rebranding as SuperQ Quantum Computing Inc., completing a 10-for-1 share consolidation, and listing on the CSE as QBTQ with Staque owning about 37.8%. The Super platform is a cloud-based hybrid quantum-classical computing system with a natural-language, ChatGPT-like interface. It coordinates quantum annealing from D-Wave, gate-model QPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, and CPUs via AI-driven workload management. Verge Ag project produced SuperQ’s first revenue in mid-2025, via a quantum-optimized robotic motion planning module on Verge’s Launch Pad, with revenue recognized on July 24, 2025.
28 July 2025
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Lasers vs Radio: Inside the Laser Satellite Communication Revolution (2025)

Lasers vs Radio: Inside the Laser Satellite Communication Revolution (2025)

NASA’s TBIRD CubeSat achieved a 200 Gbps laser downlink in 2023, transmitting 4.8 terabytes in under five minutes. SpaceX’s Starlink had over 4,000 satellites in orbit by early 2024, with inter-satellite laser links moving about 42 petabytes per day (roughly 5.6 terabits per second). Amazon’s Project Kuiper demonstrated 100 Gbps inter-satellite laser links in late 2023 over distances of about 1,000 km, with production satellites planned to launch in 2025 and each carrying multiple laser terminals. Europe’s European Data Relay System (SpaceDataHighway) uses Tesat laser terminals on two GEO satellites, delivering up to 1.8 Gbps links and as much as
28 July 2025
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AI in Business: How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing Every Industry

AI in Business: How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing Every Industry

78% of companies now use AI in at least one business function, and 83% say AI is a top strategic priority. The global AI market is about $390 billion today and is forecast to reach $1.8 trillion by 2030. By mid-2025, 71% of companies regularly use generative AI, up from 65% six months earlier. Netflix reportedly derives about $1 billion annually from AI-driven personalized recommendations. AI-driven forecasting in operations can lift revenue by 3–4% through shorter lead times and fewer stockouts. Yahoo Japan mandated daily generative AI use for all employees in July 2025, with a goal to double productivity
28 July 2025
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AI vs. the Fakes: Inside the 2025 Race to Spot ChatGPT, Deepfakes and More

AI vs. the Fakes: Inside the 2025 Race to Spot ChatGPT, Deepfakes and More

GPTZero, created by a Princeton student in early 2023, was among the first famous AI text detectors and highlights AI-written sentences with color-coding and an “AI probability” score. OpenAI discontinued its AI-written text detector in 2023 after finding a low rate of accuracy. In a Washington Post test, Turnitin’s AI detector got over half the essays at least partly wrong and flagged 8% of a student’s original essay as AI. The European Union’s AI Act of 2024 requires AI-generated content to be disclosed, with providers mandated to watermark or clearly indicate AI origin starting in 2026. Google announced SynthID in
27 July 2025
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Ultimate AI Showdown: Best Tools, Apps, and Websites of 2025 Revealed

Ultimate AI Showdown: Best Tools, Apps, and Websites of 2025 Revealed

ChatGPT Enterprise offers unlimited, faster GPT-4 access, a 32K-token context window, and data-privacy controls for organizations. Claude 2 can ingest up to 100,000 tokens in context; Claude Pro costs $20/month; Claude API pricing is $0.008 per 1K input tokens and $0.032 per 1K output tokens. Google Gemini is a family of models (Gemini Pro and Gemini Ultra) with DeepThink-style reasoning and tools like Mariner, announced at Google I/O 2025; access is limited and Google introduced a $30/month Google AI Ultra consumer add-on in research preview. Mistral 7B released in late 2023 as a 7B-parameter open model; by 2025, plans include
27 July 2025
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AI Assistant Showdown: ChatGPT vs Siri vs Alexa – Inside the 2025 Personal AI Revolution

AI Assistant Showdown: ChatGPT vs Siri vs Alexa – Inside the 2025 Personal AI Revolution

Siri debuted in 2011 on the iPhone 4S as the first widely used voice assistant. Alexa launched in 2014 with the Echo, popularizing voice-controlled smart home devices. ChatGPT, built on GPT-4, launched in late 2022 and reached 100 million users by January 2023. Google introduced Gemini in 2024 as a major overhaul of its AI assistant, with multi-turn reasoning and deep Android integration, and by July 2025 Gemini could proactively interface with apps like Gmail and WhatsApp. Microsoft rolled out 365 Copilot and Windows Copilot in 2023, embedding GPT-powered copilots in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Windows, with 365 Copilot
27 July 2025
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Minecraft’s AI Revolution: From Smart Creepers to GPT-4 Agents

Minecraft’s AI Revolution: From Smart Creepers to GPT-4 Agents

In 2016, Microsoft Research launched Project Malmo, an open-source AI experimentation platform built on top of Minecraft. Around NeurIPS 2019, MineRL released an OpenAI Gym interface for Minecraft with a large dataset of human gameplay and the flagship ‘Obtain Diamond’ task. In 2022, OpenAI trained a Video PreTraining (VPT) model on 70,000 hours of YouTube Minecraft videos, enabling the agent to craft wooden and stone tools and a diamond pickaxe after 24,000 actions. Baritone is an open-source Minecraft bot with advanced pathfinding, using an A-like search and reportedly 30× faster path calculation than its predecessor. In early 2025, Ryan Boulds
27 July 2025
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Augmented AI Revolution: How Human-AI Collaboration is Reshaping 2025

Augmented AI Revolution: How Human-AI Collaboration is Reshaping 2025

1955: John McCarthy coined “artificial intelligence” as a term while early thinkers debated augmenting human intelligence. 1960: J.C.R. Licklider outlined “man-computer symbiosis” in which humans and computers cooperate to solve problems. 1962: Douglas Engelbart published a framework for augmenting human intellect to increase problem-solving capability. 1990: Steve Jobs described computers as a “bicycle for our minds,” illustrating how technology multiplies human capability. 2019: Stanford University launched the Institute for Human-Centered AI to focus research on AI that improves the human condition. 2020: Amazon Web Services announced “Amazon Augmented AI” to manage workflows that involve AI plus human reviewers via Mechanical
27 July 2025
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AI vs Data Science: Shocking Differences, Surprising Overlaps, and the 2025 Showdown

AI vs Data Science: Shocking Differences, Surprising Overlaps, and the 2025 Showdown

In 2024, 78% of organizations reported using some form of AI, up from 55% in 2023, according to Stanford’s AI Index. Stanford’s 2025 AI Index notes that the inference cost for running models at GPT‑3.5 level fell about 280× from late 2022 to late 2024, enabling cheaper deployment. The European Union’s AI Act entered into force in August 2024, banning systems posing an unacceptable risk and requiring high‑risk AI to disclose AI‑generated content and publish summaries of copyrighted training data, with full compliance by 2026. JPMorgan’s COiN (Contract Intelligence) AI system reviews legal documents and has reduced the time lawyers
27 July 2025
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The 2025 Google Cloud AI Revolution: New Services, Strengths, and Surprising Developments

The 2025 Google Cloud AI Revolution: New Services, Strengths, and Surprising Developments

Vertex AI is Google’s unified platform for developing, training, and deploying machine learning models at scale, integrating data preparation, pipelines, MLOps, and model monitoring with AutoML. Gemini is Google’s multimodal foundation family for text, code, and images, with Gemini 2.5 “Flash” announced in 2025 as a smaller, cost-efficient variant, plus Lyria for music and Imagen for images and Veo for video. Vertex AI Model Garden lets customers deploy Google’s own models or popular open-source models on Google Cloud. Google Cloud’s AI hardware includes Cloud TPU v5e for training and the upcoming 7th‑generation TPU named “Ironwood” for inference, with TPU v5e
27 July 2025
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AI vs. Robotics Revolution: How Smart Algorithms and Machines Are Reshaping 2025

AI vs. Robotics Revolution: How Smart Algorithms and Machines Are Reshaping 2025

In 1961, the first industrial robot, Unimate, was installed on a General Motors assembly line. From 1966 to 1972, Stanford Research Institute’s Shakey became the first mobile robot to reason about its actions using AI. In 1973, Kawasaki introduced the first robot arm with six electromechanical axes. In 1981, IBM introduced a robotic arm controlled by a microcomputer. In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. In 2002, iRobot released the Roomba, the first widely adopted consumer robot. In 2012, AlexNet achieved a breakthrough in image recognition, signaling the deep learning renaissance. In 2016, Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo
27 July 2025
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GPT-5 vs Gemini: Inside 2025’s High-Stakes Frontier AI Showdown

GPT-5 vs Gemini: Inside 2025’s High-Stakes Frontier AI Showdown

Gemini Ultra achieved 90.0% on the MMLU benchmark, the first AI to exceed human expert performance. GPT-4 Omni (GPT-4o) was introduced by 2025, handling text, images, and audio with about 232 ms response times and powering the free ChatGPT tier in mid-2025. Claude Opus 4 is billed as the world’s best coding model, achieving 72–73% on coding benchmarks and enabling extended tool use. Claude Sonnet 4 emphasizes efficiency and reliability with improved instruction-following and memory through local-file storage for long-term recall. Meta released LLaMA 4 in April 2025, featuring a Mixture-of-Experts design and reportedly over 400 billion parameters. Gemini 1.0
27 July 2025
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AI Art Revolution: How Free AI Painting Generators Are Transforming Creativity in 2025

AI Art Revolution: How Free AI Painting Generators Are Transforming Creativity in 2025

DALL·E 3, released in late 2023 and integrated into Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator, generated over 1 billion images in its first months. Craiyon (formerly DALL·E mini) launched in 2022 and has produced over 10 million images. StarryAI uses the backend Argo (powered by Stable Diffusion) and offers 1000+ stylistic presets, with a free plan of up to 25 images per day, watermarked outputs, and a daily 5-credit limit. Stable Diffusion, launched in 2022 as an open-source model, underpins tools like NightCafe, Leonardo.ai, and Hugging Face Spaces and supports user-trained custom models. In February 2025, Christie’s held a dedicated AI-generated art
27 July 2025
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Mach 2 Marvels: The Epic Saga of Dassault’s Mirage Fighter Jets

Mach 2 Marvels: The Epic Saga of Dassault’s Mirage Fighter Jets

In 1958, the Mirage III became the first Western European combat aircraft to exceed Mach 2 in level flight. The Mirage IIIC entered French service by 1961. The Mirage F1 first flew in 1966 and could land about 60 knots slower than the Mirage III. The Mirage 2000 first flew in 1978 and introduced fly-by-wire control with the Snecma M53-P2 engine delivering 64 kN dry and 95 kN with afterburner. The Mirage 4000 first flew in 1979 as a twin-engine “Super Mirage” with canards and a potential load up to 8 tons, but only one prototype was built and it
25 July 2025
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Wall Street Shocked by AI Surge: What Happened on July 24–25?

Wall Street Shocked by AI Surge: What Happened on July 24–25?

On July 24, 2025, the S&P 500 rose 0.07% to a fresh record close, its fourth consecutive such close. The Nasdaq Composite gained 0.18% to its own all-time high on July 24, 2025. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.7% on July 24, 2025. <liAlphabet (GOOGL) posted a strong Q2 beat and announced a $10 billion boost to its 2025 capital expenditure budget, now $85 billion, to expand AI chips and data centers. Alphabet’s cloud division revenue jumped about 32% in the quarter. Nvidia rose 1.7% on July 24, 2025, providing the biggest lift to the S&P 500. Intel unveiled
25 July 2025
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2025–2026 Smartphone Mega-Preview: Flagships, Foldables, Gaming & Future Phones

2025–2026 Smartphone Mega-Preview: Flagships, Foldables, Gaming & Future Phones

Apple plans the iPhone 17 lineup for September 2025, including iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max and the new iPhone 17 Air, with a 3nm A19 chip and 120Hz ProMotion across all models. The iPhone 4 SE (SE 4) is expected in Spring 2025 as a 6.1-inch OLED budget iPhone with an A18 3nm chip, Face ID, possibly an in-house 5G modem, and a price around $499. Samsung released the Galaxy S25 Ultra in January 2025, featuring a 6.8-inch display, Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy SoC, a 200MP main camera, and S‑Pen support, priced about $1,199. Samsung also rolled
25 July 2025
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Starlink Coverage in 2025: Full Global Map, Reviews, and What’s Coming Next

Starlink Coverage in 2025: Full Global Map, Reviews, and What’s Coming Next

By early 2025, Starlink was available in over 100 countries across every inhabited continent. In the past year, Starlink launched in 42 new countries and territories and surpassed 6 million active customers worldwide. In the United States, the standard Starlink plan costs about $90 per month with a $599 equipment kit. SpaceX added about 2,300 satellites in the past year, bringing the total in orbit to over 7,000. By early 2025, Starlink was adding about 5 terabits per second of capacity per week to the constellation. Starlink typically delivers 50–200 Mbps download speeds, with the US median peak around 200
25 July 2025
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Stock Market Today

Wall Street Feels the Heat (and Thrill): Fed Cuts, Tariffs & Mega-Mergers Set NYSE Buzz

Stock Market Today 08.02.2026

8 February 2026
LIVEMarkets rolling coverageStarted: February 8, 2026, 12:00 AM ESTUpdated: February 8, 2026, 12:19 AM EST Sprinklr (CXM) Undervalued Amid Share Price Drop, AI Growth Potential Assessed February 8, 2026, 12:11 AM EST. Sprinklr (CXM) shares hover near $6, reflecting a 21% drop over 30 days and nearly 31% decline year-to-date. Despite negative returns stretching back three years, some analysts see an intrinsic value of around $11, suggesting the stock may be undervalued. The AI-driven customer experience platform is integrating advanced AI functionalities across marketing and customer service products to capitalize on rising demand for AI-powered analytics. Key risks include potential
Tower Semiconductor stock jumps again on Nvidia optics tie-up as earnings near

Tower Semiconductor stock jumps again on Nvidia optics tie-up as earnings near

8 February 2026
Tower Semiconductor shares rose 7.7% to $139.04 Friday after announcing a collaboration with Nvidia on AI data-center networking. The stock touched $141 intraday and gained another 1% after hours. Investors await Tower’s Feb. 11 earnings for details on its silicon photonics work. No financial terms or shipment timeline were disclosed.
Longsys Electronics stock heads into Monday after new guarantees; what 301308 investors watch next

Longsys Electronics stock heads into Monday after new guarantees; what 301308 investors watch next

8 February 2026
Longsys disclosed new guarantees for a 100 million yuan Hong Kong loan and a $9 million Brazil credit line, bringing its total approved guarantee quota to 11 billion yuan and outstanding guarantees to 5.81 billion yuan. The company said all guarantees are for consolidated subsidiaries and within approved limits. Shares closed at 288 yuan Friday, down 1.6%. China inflation and credit data are due this week.
MACOM stock price steadies near highs into Monday after earnings pop and fresh filings

MACOM stock price steadies near highs into Monday after earnings pop and fresh filings

8 February 2026
MACOM shares rose 3.5% to $235.87 Friday after the company reported fiscal Q1 revenue of $271.6 million and raised its full-year data center growth outlook to 35–40%. Fidelity’s FMR LLC disclosed a 10.7% stake, while shareholder Susan Ocampo filed to potentially sell up to 100,000 shares. Stifel raised its price target to $255. MACOM expects to repay $161 million in convertible notes in March.
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