
DeepMind and WRI publish ForTy, a global 2020 forest-type map
ForTy labels six land classes at 10-meter resolution and was judged correct on 90.2 percent of 8,190 sites.
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ForTy labels six land classes at 10-meter resolution and was judged correct on 90.2 percent of 8,190 sites.

Onboard TPUs completed a space haiku prompt; Google next plans thermal and radiation tests and twin satellites in 2027.
Only PairWatch kept one threshold that separated real rendezvous from operational negatives in every bootstrap resample.
Demand-proportional sharing raised under-served users by up to 34%; equal sharing limited that increase to 13%.
Researchers find severe flaws in COTS satellite communication modules, linking at least 28 in-orbit missions to takeover risk.
Self-supervised encoder plus anomaly detection pipeline compresses hyperspectral satellite imagery onboard to flag oil spills and algal blooms.

Red Hat fixed Satellite flaw CVE-2026-96659, which can leak host root passwords and enable Foreman command execution.

Google will launch a TPU satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 on October 1 to test AI compute in orbit.
MimicSat is a reconfigurable cyber-physical testbed for comparing small-satellite behavior under attacks and faults.
Researchers propose cooperative jamming so a ground transmitter can reach a satellite while degrading adversarial TDOA localization.
A task-oriented semantic transmission framework sends remote-sensing features instead of images, improving classification and detection over low-SNR satellite channels.
Study of 126 onboard satellite OSS repositories finds 2,827 security findings, 72% medium severity or higher, dominated by memory safety and code quality weaknesses.
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