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Japan's Environment Ministry says six hours a day went wrong for three months. Its own API puts a number on it: 10,213,104 deleted forecasts

Japan's Environment Ministry pulled the WBGT heat-index forecasts it issued in the 0, 1, 2, 12, 13 and 14 o'clock hours between 22 April and 22 July. Its own API measures the hole: 132 of 492 records per station-day, 92 days, 841 stations — 10,213,104 forecasts.

Amazon is 97 per cent of the surge in the EU’s content-moderation database — twelve straight days at a level it had reached nine times all year

Filings to the European Commission’s Digital Services Act database rose by 9.78 million a day this month. Amazon Store supplied 9.44 million of the increase, after eight days in June when it filed fewer than 2,200 a day.

The newest GPS satellite has been flagged unusable for 110 days. The four before it took 26 to 38

GPS III SV-10 launched on 21 April. The Master Control Station’s own status file still carries it as unusable until further notice, and it holds the only bad health word among 32 broadcasting satellites.

China has left 27 Long March 6A upper stages in orbit since 2022. Not one has come down

The satellite catalogue holds a rocket body from every Long March 6A flight since March 2022. All 27 are still up, and 22 sit above 600km, where a spent stage stays for centuries.

The satellite catalogue ran out of five-digit numbers. A docked Soyuz is now invisible to the old TLE format

The US Space Force catalogue crossed into six digits on 11 July, and the two-line element set — the format most tracking software still reads — has no room for them. Ask for the space stations as TLEs and the crew ferry is missing.

Federal agencies now get three days to patch. CISA’s own catalogue shows the deadline started tightening months before the rule that set it

A binding directive issued on 10 June replaced a patch clock that had been almost exactly 21 days for four years. Recomputing every entry in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue shows the collapse happened in two steps, and the first one came three months early.

Europe switched on a new Galileo satellite last week and announced it in a status table

GSAT0234 entered active service on 23 July. The only public notice is a row in the EU’s constellation feed marked “usable as from” that date.

NASA’s Madrid deep-space antennas are tracking spacecraft again after a wildfire crossed the site

NASA’s Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex is back on the air after a wildfire forced its evacuation, with four of its six dishes tracking spacecraft on Monday.

New York becomes the first state to hit pause on big new data centers

Governor Kathy Hochul ordered a pause of up to a year on state permits for large data centers — those drawing 50 megawatts or more — making New York the first US state to brake the AI-driven buildout over energy and cost concerns.

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