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Technology News 21 June 2025 - 24 June 2025

Lyon’s Bold Digital Revolution: 7 Reasons the City’s Break‑Up With Microsoft Will Rock Government IT

Lyon’s Bold Digital Revolution: 7 Reasons the City’s Break‑Up With Microsoft Will Rock Government IT

On 23 June 2025, Lyon announced Territoire Numérique Ouvert (TNO) and a progressive migration from Microsoft Office to OnlyOffice, Linux, and PostgreSQL across municipal workstations. Territoire Numérique Ouvert is an open-source collaborative suite developed with SITIV and the Lyon Metropole. TNO is hosted in regional datacentres. TNO received a €2 million grant from the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion (ANCT). TNO already serves several thousand agents in nine local authorities. Civil servant training for the switch began in June 2025. The initiative aims to escape American software dependency. Zimbra integration by Axess reduces maintenance costs by at least 50%. Over
24 June 2025
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The Digital Desert Awakens: Inside Tunisia’s Expanding Internet Frontier

The Digital Desert Awakens: Inside Tunisia’s Expanding Internet Frontier

As of early 2024, about 9.96 million Tunisians were internet users, roughly 79.6% of the population. In January 2024, Tunisia had 16.73 million active mobile connections, equal to 133.7% of the population. 99.9% of the population is covered by mobile signals, with 4G reaching about 94.9% of inhabitants. Tunisie Telecom’s fiber backbone spans roughly 50,000 km, and late-2024 initiatives connected 2,900 homes in Tataouine (~7,000 users) via fiber at about $160,000. International bandwidth capacity grew from 82.5 Gbps in 2012 to about 1,710 Gbps in 2023. 5G licensing occurred in September 2024, initial licenses were granted in November 2024, and
24 June 2025
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Singapore Drone Laws 2025 – Everything You Need to Know (Updated Guide)

Singapore Drone Laws 2025 – Everything You Need to Know (Updated Guide)

Drones weighing more than 250 grams must be registered in Singapore, a rule in effect since 2020, with penalties up to S$10,000 or 6 months’ imprisonment for unregistered flights. Registration involves two steps: purchasing a S$25 registration label and completing online registration on the CAAS UA Portal, with the label uniquely tied to the aircraft and non-transferable. As of February 14, 2025, Singapore removed the registration cap, allowing unlimited drones above 250 g to be registered to a single owner via the Centralised Flight Management System (CFMS). Recreational drones weighing 1.5 kg to 7 kg require at least a UA
24 June 2025
Peering Through Clouds: Microwave Radiometry’s Crucial Role in Weather Prediction

Peering Through Clouds: Microwave Radiometry’s Crucial Role in Weather Prediction

Microwave radiometers measure brightness temperature from natural microwave emissions, enabling all-weather, day‑and‑night sensing through clouds, haze, and light rain. Oxygen absorption bands around 60 GHz (with a separate line at 118 GHz) are used for temperature sounding, while water vapor absorbs near 22.235 GHz and 183 GHz for humidity profiling. Nimbus-7 SMMR, launched in 1978, was the first conical-scanning microwave imager with five channels at 6, 10, 18, 21 and 37 GHz. DMSP SSM/I, launched in 1987, carried seven channels from 19 to 85 GHz and provided all-weather ocean winds, rain rates, and snow cover. NOAA’s MSU/AMSU family began with
24 June 2025
Latest Satellite News & Insights 24.06.2025

Latest Satellite News & Insights 24.06.2025

Vodafone becomes the first operator to commercially deploy satellite-guided GPS sensors in 4G/5G antennas, starting in Albania to improve alignment and signal quality. Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) will launch to the International Space Station on June 25, 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying ISRO’s Shubhanshu Shukla as the first ISRO astronaut on a commercial ISS flight. ESA will launch MTG-S1 on July 1, 2025, the first European geostationary satellite capable of atmospheric sounding, enabling extreme weather prediction with Sentinel-4 data. NASA’s Relay-2, inactive since 1967, emitted a powerful radio signal detected in June 2024, highlighting ongoing concerns about space
23 June 2025
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AI Revolution 2025: 17 Breaking Stories You Must Read Before Anyone Else

AI Revolution 2025: 17 Breaking Stories You Must Read Before Anyone Else

OpenAI’s GPT-5 is slated for release this summer, with Sam Altman calling it “materially better” than GPT-4 and hinting limited advertising outside the output stream. Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 in May, claiming top SWE-bench scores and improved memory with built-in tool use. Google DeepMind’s Gemini evolves into a “universal assistant” at Google I/O 2025, offering browser actions, multimodal context, and deeper Google ecosystem integrations. Meta released Llama 4 in April as a fully open-source multimodal model with Scout and Maverick variants, already live on Hugging Face for commercial fine-tuning. Nvidia announced Rubin, a family of GPUs
23 June 2025
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Tech Trends and Breaking News: June 23, 2025 Edition

Tech Trends and Breaking News: June 23, 2025 Edition

Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro, expected in 2026, is rumored to debut with under-display Face ID and a tiny camera punch-hole. Apple plans an all-screen iPhone by 2027, featuring edge-to-edge glass with no notch or Dynamic Island. In 2025, Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup is tipped to include the ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air and the high-end iPhone 17 Ultra. Samsung will unveil the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 at Unpacked on July 9–10, 2025, with a thinner chassis and likely no built-in S Pen. Honor will unveil the Magic V5 foldable in China on July 2, 2025, billed as
23 June 2025
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Oceanography and the Eye in the Sky: How Satellites Are Redefining Our Oceans

Oceanography and the Eye in the Sky: How Satellites Are Redefining Our Oceans

Since 1993, TOPEX/Poseidon and the Jason series have produced a continuous global mean sea level record, showing a rise of about 3.1–3.3 millimeters per year with acceleration to over 4 millimeters per year in the last decade and by 2023 the global mean sea level was over 100 millimeters higher than in 1993. Seasat (1978) carried a radar altimeter and, during its 105-day mission, provided ocean data that followed GEOS-3’s 1975 testing of radar altimetry. TOPEX/Poseidon, launched in 1992, carried two altimeters (NASA Ku/C-band and CNES Poseidon) and achieved sea-surface height accuracy of about 2–3 centimeters on a 10-day repeat
23 June 2025
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Mauritius Online: How a Paradise Island is Beaming Broadband (Even from Space)

Mauritius Online: How a Paradise Island is Beaming Broadband (Even from Space)

As of early 2025, about 1.01 million Mauritians used the internet, representing roughly 79.5% of the population. By 2024 Mauritius had over 2.2 million internet subscriptions, about 178 per 100 inhabitants, indicating many people hold multiple connections. Mauritius completed 100% fiber‑to‑the‑home coverage in 2017, with 100% of households passed by fiber and fixed broadband speeds around 55 Mbps on average. The island is connected by five major undersea cables—SAFE, LION/LION2, METISS, MARS, and T3—with capacities including ~800 Gbps on SAFE, ~1.28 Tbps on LION, 24 Tbps on METISS, 8 Tbps on MARS, and 18 Tbps (upgradable to 54 Tbps) on
22 June 2025
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Dubai’s Drone Law Shake-Up 2025: New Rules, No-Fly Zones & How to Stay Legal

Dubai’s Drone Law Shake-Up 2025: New Rules, No-Fly Zones & How to Stay Legal

January 7, 2025, the UAE partially lifts the nationwide recreational drone ban, but Dubai keeps its local hobby drone ban in place for now. From 2025, all drone pilots—recreational or commercial—must complete a GCAA-approved training and obtain a drone training certificate after a background security clearance of about 3–4 weeks. The regulatory framework rests on two authorities: the federal General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA), with both sets of rules applying in Dubai. Recreational drone use in Dubai is suspended, with the DCAA halting new hobbyist permits; when allowed, hobbyists must register with the
22 June 2025
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The Real Wi-Fight: Romania’s Race to Connect Every Corner of the Country

The Real Wi-Fight: Romania’s Race to Connect Every Corner of the Country

Romania’s first Internet connection was established in 1993 via ici.ro. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, urban residents built “rețele de cartier” by stringing Ethernet cables between buildings, helping the country leapfrog DSL. By 2020 Romania ranked third in the world for fastest fixed internet speeds, behind Singapore and Hong Kong. As of 2024, 88.6% of Romanian households had internet at home, with 92.5% of urban and 83.2% of rural households online. Fiber dominates the fixed network, with about 93% of localities passed by FTTH/B and about 93% of localities able to access gigabit speeds. Digi (RCS&RDS) had about
22 June 2025
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100 Semiconductor Giants Powering the Modern World

100 Semiconductor Giants Powering the Modern World

TSMC is the world’s largest contract chip fab, handling about 61% of global foundry revenues. NVIDIA is the largest fabless chip company in 2024, with data-center GPUs and AI accelerators generating $124.3 billion in revenue. Samsung Electronics is the world’s largest memory chip maker and, in 2024, regained the #1 position in overall semiconductor revenue at US$66.5 billion, with its foundry division offering 5nm and 4nm processes. Intel Corporation is an IDM (logic, x86 CPUs) with $49.2 billion in 2024 revenue, pursuing a dual IDM and external-foundry strategy via Intel Foundry Services and advancing 3nm and 2nm process technology. Synopsys
22 June 2025
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Top 100 Robotics and Drone Companies Shaping the Future of Automation (2025)

Top 100 Robotics and Drone Companies Shaping the Future of Automation (2025)

Amazon Robotics (formerly Kiva Systems) operates over 500,000 mobile robots in its fulfillment centers to power rapid order fulfillment. DJI remains the world’s largest drone manufacturer, commanding over 70% of the global market with flagship Phantom and Mavic series. SoftBank Robotics’ Pepper humanoid, launched in 2014, was the world’s first full-scale consumer-facing humanoid robot and became an iconic retail assistant. Intuitive Surgical dominates robotic surgery with the da Vinci system, boasting more than 7,500 installed robots worldwide and over 10 million surgeries performed. Zipline operates autonomous fixed-wing medical delivery drones with more than 500,000 deliveries and flight ranges up to
22 June 2025
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Sky Watchers: The 2025–2033 Boom in Weather & Climate Satellite Constellations

Sky Watchers: The 2025–2033 Boom in Weather & Climate Satellite Constellations

Over 5,400 Earth observation satellites are projected to be launched globally from 2024 to 2033, nearly triple the previous decade. NOAA’s GeoXO program will deploy at least three geostationary satellites (with options up to four more) to upgrade GOES-R and extend Western Hemisphere coverage, following a $2.27 billion contract awarded to Lockheed Martin in 2024. NOAA/NASA plan JPSS-3 for 2027 and JPSS-4 for 2032 to provide critical morning-orbit polar data for numerical weather models. Europe’s MTG and MetOp-SG programs will deliver six MTG satellites (four MTG-I imagers and two MTG-S sounders) and the MetOp-SG A1/B1 pair by 2025, with MTG
21 June 2025
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Apple’s Internal Talks on Acquiring Perplexity AI: Strategy, Reactions, and Implications

Apple’s Internal Talks on Acquiring Perplexity AI: Strategy, Reactions, and Implications

Apple mergers chief Adrian Perica and services lead Eddy Cue have met with Perplexity’s team multiple times to evaluate the technology, with no formal offer or bid discussed as of June 2025. Perplexity’s latest funding round closed in 2025 and valued the company at about $14 billion, making an Apple acquisition by far the largest deal in Apple’s history, surpassing Beats’ $3 billion purchase. Apple is reportedly considering acquiring Perplexity to bolster its AI talent and tech portfolio and to potentially offer its own AI-powered search engine. Perplexity AI was co-founded in 2022 by Aravind Srinivas and others as an
21 June 2025
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Latest News and Developments in Satellites (2024–2025)

Latest News and Developments in Satellites (2024–2025)

In the first four months of 2025, over 1,200 satellites were launched, roughly a 50% increase from the same period in 2024. SpaceX’s Starlink had more than 7,000 small satellites in orbit by late 2024, with 573 Starlinks launched in Q1 2025 and about 9,000 laser inter-satellite links moving some 42 petabytes of data per day. In October 2024, SpaceX completed the final batch of OneWeb’s first-generation broadband satellites, bringing the constellation to roughly 634 LEO satellites. Amazon’s Project Kuiper launched its first 27 satellites in April 2025 on a ULA Atlas V, starting a planned 3,236-satellite network with a
21 June 2025
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No Signal? No Problem: Why Satellite Phones Are Booming in 2025

No Signal? No Problem: Why Satellite Phones Are Booming in 2025

In June 2025, T-Mobile began a nationwide beta of its “T-Satellite” service built on SpaceX Starlink technology, with a July 2025 rollout and plans to include it at no extra cost on high‑end plans and about $10/month for others. On June 19, 2025, Vodafone Idea and AST SpaceMobile announced a partnership to deliver 4G/5G access from space in India using AST’s BlueWalker 3 satellites to reach remote areas. The FCC Space Bureau accepted Globalstar’s petition in early June 2025 to launch a second‑generation LEO constellation called “C‑3” for direct‑to‑device services, with Apple owning about 20% of Globalstar and a 50‑satellite
21 June 2025
10,000 Satellites and 5 Million Users: Inside the Satellite Internet Revolution of 2025

10,000 Satellites and 5 Million Users: Inside the Satellite Internet Revolution of 2025

Starlink has launched over 8,000 satellites since 2019 and serves more than 5 million users across 125+ countries as of 2025. Amazon’s Project Kuiper launched its first 27 satellites in April 2025 on an Atlas V, aiming for a 3,236-satellite constellation with Ka-band and user terminals around $400. The EU’s IRIS² plan is a €10.6 billion multi-orbit network targeting about 300 satellites by 2030. China began launching the first of 13,000 Guowang satellites, with 64 craft launched by the end of 2024. OneWeb has about 650 satellites and merged with European operator Eutelsat in September 2023 to form a GEO-LEO
21 June 2025
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Space Force’s Secret 480-Satellite MILNET: Inside SpaceX’s New Military “Starlink” Revolution

Space Force’s Secret 480-Satellite MILNET: Inside SpaceX’s New Military “Starlink” Revolution

MILNET is a secret Space Force project that will be a government-owned, contractor-operated LEO satcom constellation of about 480 satellites, announced in June 2025. On June 18, 2025, Breaking Defense revealed that Space Force is funding MILNET in partnership with SpaceX, with SpaceX building and flying the satellites while Space Force Delta 8 oversees operations and the NRO manages the program. MILNET will use SpaceX’s Starshield platform, delivering enhanced encryption and security, with Starshield ground terminals derived from Starlink hardware able to interoperate with Starlink via laser cross-links. The network is designed as a hybrid mesh that will fuse DoD
21 June 2025
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Elon Musk’s Starlink vs. Iran’s Blackout: Fact-Checking the 20,000 Secret Dishes Reconnecting a Nation

Elon Musk’s Starlink vs. Iran’s Blackout: Fact-Checking the 20,000 Secret Dishes Reconnecting a Nation

On June 14, 2025, after Israeli strikes, Iran imposed a nationwide internet blackout, and Elon Musk tweeted that Starlink was “The beams are on,” effectively activating Starlink over Iran. The activation made Starlink connectivity available only to users with Starlink terminals, not to the entire Iranian population. Estimates by late 2024 placed roughly 10,000 to 20,000 clandestine Starlink terminals operating inside Iran. Reuters reported in December 2022 that nearly 100 Starlink terminals were active in Iran as SpaceX began enabling Starlink there. By January 2025, Iran International reported up to 100,000 Iranian users benefiting from satellite internet, with official figures
21 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

Amazon stock tumbles on $200 billion AI spend plan — what to know before Monday

Amazon stock tumbles on $200 billion AI spend plan — what to know before Monday

7 February 2026
Amazon shares fell 5.6% to $210.32 on Friday after the company projected about $200 billion in 2026 capital expenditures, triggering investor concern over AI spending. The stock had already dropped 11.5% after-hours Thursday. Amazon forecast Q1 net sales of $173.5–$178.5 billion and operating income of $16.5–$21.5 billion. Analyst Gil Luria downgraded Amazon, citing rising investment as its cloud lead narrows.
AMD stock jumps 8% in chip rebound — what investors are watching before Monday

AMD stock jumps 8% in chip rebound — what investors are watching before Monday

7 February 2026
AMD shares jumped 8.2% to $208.44 Friday, trading on heavy volume as chip stocks rebounded and the Dow closed above 50,000 for the first time. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose 5.7% after Amazon’s AI spending plans lifted sector estimates. Nvidia’s CEO cited surging AI chip demand. AMD’s rally followed a weak revenue outlook earlier in the week.
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