Healthcare titan Abbott Laboratories is investigating two separate, unrelated cybersecurity incidents that hit its diagnostic infrastructure simultaneously. The twin disclosures arrived within days of each other, highlighted by an aggressive extortion threat from the prolific hacking collective ShinyHunters, which claims to have stolen millions of highly sensitive medical files and personal records from an internal company database. Editorial credit: Melnikov Dmitriy / Shutte

SpaceX was forced to halt the highly anticipated second launch of its upgraded Starship V3 configuration last week Thursday, after it failed to take off. The automated countdown reached the final three seconds, but an ignition anomaly inside the massive Super Heavy booster abruptly shut down the sequence, leaving the world’s most powerful rocket anchored to the pad amid billowing clouds of vapor. The mission, designated Flight 13, was designed to build upon the baseline struc