html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" Table of ContentsTable of ContentsHP DeskJet 2734e All-in-One Printer $40 $85 47% offHP Envy 6065e All-in-One Printer $55 $130 58% offEpson WorkForce Pro WF-3820 All-in-One Printer $100 $200 50% offCanon Pixma MegaTank G3270 All-in-One Printer $125 $230 47% offCanon ImageCLASS MF654Cdw Laser Printer $250 $400 38% offHow to choose a printer on Black FridayHow we chose these printer Black Friday dealsUpdate 11/28/24: Black Friday is the perfect time to grab yourself a new printer, and were happy to say that the deals have only been getting better. Thats why weve gone ahead and updated the deals to their latest information so you can buy with confidence. Also, be sure to check back regularly as we update these deals moving forward!There are some fantastic early Black Friday deals happening this weekend. Below, weve picked out our favorite Black Friday printer deals so you can print those all-important documents better than before. Its maybe not the most exciting of purchases, but its certainly an important one. If youve just snagged an Black Friday laptop deal or all-in-one PC deal, youre all set in your home office with this combo.Besides regularly updating this page with the latest printer deals, we also have some key buying advice to help you end up with the right option for your situation. Read on while we take you through everything from great deals to important buying tips.Related$85 47% offHPThe HP DeskJet 2734e All-in-One Printer is simple yet effective. It only has print speeds of up to 7.5 pages per minute in black or 5.5 pages per minute in color, but its inexpensive and comes with six months of HP Instant Ink.$130 58% offHPWith speeds of up to 10 pages per minute in black and white or 7.5 pages per minute in color, the HP Envy 6065e All-in-One Printer is fairly fast. It has automatic two-sided printing and simple setup. It comes with six months of HP Instant Ink too.$200 50% offEpsonBuilt for speed, the Epson WorkForce Pro WF-3820 All-in-One Printer boasts 21 pages per minute in black or 11 pages per minute in color. Designed with high volume in mind, theres auto two-sided printing and 1-sided 35-page ADF streamline workflow, as well as a large 250 sheet capacity.$230 47% offCanons MegaTank Pixma G3270 is easy to setup and use. Photo by Tracey Truly / Digital TrendsWith a backlit 1.35-inch LCD screen, the Canon Pixma MegaTank G3270 All-in-One Printer is super easy to figure out. It has a high page yield via one set of inks, and the ink bottles mean you never miss a drop. Up to 4800 x 1200 dpi color resolution ensures the Canon Pixma MegaTank G3270 All-in-One Printer produces great results.$400 38% offCanons color balance sheet fine-tunes the imageClass MF654cdws print quality. Photo by Tracey Truly / Digital TrendsMany people swear by laser printers, especially when dealing with a lot of printing. The Canon ImageCLASS MF654Cdw Laser Printer offers sharp print quality and up to 22 pages per minute with a quick first print in just 10.3 seconds. Its perfect for your home office.In an ideal world, head to our look at the best printers and simply buy one of those. In reality, theres more to it than that. For one thing, you need to think about what your budget is before you learn how to choose a printer or study the best printer brands. From there, think about how you plan on using your printer. Do you need it to also scan documents, or are you good with a basic printer? A scanner is useful but not everyone needs it. Similarly, fast speeds are nice but may not be essential if youre just printing a couple of documents.To simplify things, if youre a student or someone occasionally printing files, keep costs down and dont worry about speed. However, if you print a lot of documents for work from your home office, check for higher page print speeds and quality if the file is important. Dont forget about connectivity options as well. Printing via network can be very useful.We pick out these printer Black Friday deals the same way as we pick other deals: We scour the internet, checking all the best retailers, and narrowing things down to the very best deals. That means these printer deals are the best you can find, both in terms of quality and price. We dont just pick out the deepest discounts; we check that the product is actually worth owning. After all, a good deal is only good if its something you actually want to own. Otherwise, youre just wasting your money. We know our way around printer technology, so we know whats worth owning. These printer deals are all offers we would recommend to friends and family, as well as the printers we would use ourselves.Editors Recommendations

With deliveries of Volvos much-anticipated EX90 model finally coming through in the U.S., drivers who are also music fans may be heartened by discovering what the electric SUVs sound system is made of.They might even get a cosmic experience if they decide to play The Beatles 1965 classic hit Drive My Car on that sound system: The EX90 is the first vehicle ever to feature an Abbey Road Studios mode, providing a sound quality engineered straight out of the worlds most famous music recording studios. The Beatles enshrined Abbey Road in history, when they gave the studios name to their last album in 1969.Recommended VideosBesides The Beatles, countless artists from Pink Floyd and Radiohead to Kanye West and Lady Gaga have recorded at Abbey Road, which is located in London. The studios, where stereo was first patented in 1933, have to this day remained home to numerous innovations in recording technology.RelatedOver the years, Abbey Road engineers studied the sound architecture of the equipment used there before using the data to develop software plug-ins.Inside the EX90, the Abbey Road Studios mode is delivered via a 25-speaker Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) system, which promises to deliver an innovative new sound technology designed to transform the in-car listening experience.Our review of the EX90s B&W system found its Dolby Atmos feature produces an impressive 3D effect. That B&W system, however, is only available on the higher-level EX90 Ultra grade.This years launch of the EX90, along with that of the EX30, a smaller and more affordable electric SUV, is part of Volvos strategy to boost its otherwise slumping sales of EVs in the U.S.The EX90 is also the Swedish automakers first vehicle designed for the U.S. market and also built in the U.S. The first EX90s came out of the product line of Volvos South Carolina plant in June.Editors Recommendations

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Commits and Commitment Flour, water, salt, GitHub: The Bread Code is a sourdough baking framework My year of baking lessons, guided by a full-stack engineer who teaches patience. Kevin Purdy Nov 28, 2024 7:00 am | 42 Credit: Kevin Purdy Credit: Kevin Purdy Story textSizeSmallStandardLargeWidth *StandardWideLinksStandardOrange* Subscribers only Learn moreOne year ago, I didnt know how to bake bread. I just knew how to follow a recipe. If everything went perfectly, I could turn out something plain but palatable. But should anything changetemperature, timing, flour, Mercury being in ScorpioId turn out a partly poofy pancake. I presented my partly poofy pancakes to people, and they were polite, but those platters were not particularly palatable.During a group vacation last year, a friend made fresh sourdough loaves every day, and we devoured it. He gladly shared his knowledge, his starter, and his go-to recipe. I took it home, tried it out, and made a naturally leavened, artisanal pancake.I took my confusion to YouTube, where I found Hendrik Kleinwchters The Bread Code channel and his video promising a course on Your First Sourdough Bread. I watched and learned a lot, but I couldnt quite translate 30 minutes of intensive couch time to hours of mixing, raising, slicing, and baking. Pancakes, part three.It felt like there had to be more to this. And there wasa whole GitHub repository more.The Bread Code gave Kleinwchter a gratifying second career, and its given me bread Im eager to serve people. This week alone, Im making sourdough Parker House rolls, a rosemary olive loaf for Friendsgiving, and then a zaatar flatbread and standard wheat loaf for actual Thanksgiving. And each of us has learned more about perhaps the most important aspect of coding, bread, teaching, and lots of other things: patience. Hendrik Kleinwchter on his Bread Code channel, explaining his book. Resources, not recipesThe Bread Code is centered around a book, The Sourdough Framework.Its an open source codebase that self-compiles into new LaTeX book editions and is free to read online. It has one real bread loaf recipe, if you can call a 68-page middle-section journey a recipe. It has 17 flowcharts, 15 tables, and dozens of timelines, process illustrations, and photos of sourdough going both well and terribly. Like any cookbook, there's a bit about Kleinwchter's history with this food, and some sourdough bread history. Then the reader is dropped straight into "How Sourdough Works," which is in no way a summary."To understand the many enzymatic reactions that take place when flour and water are mixed, we must first understand seeds and their role in the lifecycle of wheat and other grains," Kleinwchter writes. From there, we follow a seed through hibernation, germination, photosynthesis, and, through humans' grinding of these seeds, exposure to amylase and protease enzymes.I had arrived at this book with these specific loaf problems to address. But first, it asks me to consider, "What is wheat?" This sparked vivid memories of Computer Science 114, in which a professor, asked to troubleshoot misbehaving code, would instead tell students to Think like a compiler, or Consider the recursive way to do it."And yet, "What is wheat" did help. Having a sense of what was happening inside my starter, and my dough (which is really just a big, slow starter), helped me diagnose what was going right or wrong with my breads. Extra-sticky dough and tightly arrayed holes in the bread meant I had let the bacteria win out over the yeast. I learned when to be rough with the dough to form gluten and when to gently guide it into shape to preserve its gas-filled form.I could eat a slice of each loaf and get a sense of how things had gone. The inputs, outputs, and errors could be ascertained and analyzed more easily than in my prior stance, which was, roughly, "This starter is cursed and so am I." Using hydration percentages, measurements relative to protein content, a few tests, and troubleshooting steps, I could move closer to fresh, delicious bread. Framework: accomplished.I have found myself very grateful lately that Kleinwchter did not find success with 30-minute YouTube tutorials. Strangely, so has he. Sometimes weird scoring looks pretty neat. Kevin Purdy Sometimes weird scoring looks pretty neat. Kevin Purdy I have tried doing decorative "leaves" and other little scoring designs, with varied results. Kevin Purdy I have tried doing decorative "leaves" and other little scoring designs, with varied results. Kevin Purdy Cross section. Kevin Purdy Cross section. Kevin Purdy I have tried doing decorative "leaves" and other little scoring designs, with varied results. Kevin Purdy Cross section. Kevin Purdy The slow bread of childhood dreamsI have had some successful startups; I have also had disastrous startups, Kleinwchter said in an interview. I have made some money, then Ive been poor again. Ive done so many things.Most of those things involve software. Kleinwchter is a German full-stack engineer, and he has founded firms and worked at companies related to blogging, e-commerce, food ordering, travel, and health. He tried to escape the boom-bust startup cycle by starting his own digital agency before one of his products was acquired by hotel booking firm Trivago. After that, he needed a breakand he could afford to take one.I went to Naples, worked there in a pizzeria for a week, and just figured out, What do I want to do with my life? And I found my passion. My passion is to teach people how to make amazing bread and pizza at home, Kleinwchter said.Kleinwchters formative bread experiencesweekend loaves baked by his mother, awe-inspiring pizza from Italian ski towns, discovering all the extra ingredients in a supermarkets version of the dark Schwarzbrotmade him want to bake his own. Like me, he started with recipes, and he wasted a lot of time and flour turning out stuff that produced both failures and a drive for knowledge. He dug in, learned as much as he could, and once he had his head around the how and why, he worked on a way to guide others along the path. Too thick to be a flatbread, too flat to slice for breakfast: The painful pancake. Kevin Purdy Too thick to be a flatbread, too flat to slice for breakfast: The painful pancake. Kevin Purdy You wanted avocado toast; now you've got this. Kevin Purdy You wanted avocado toast; now you've got this. Kevin Purdy Too thick to be a flatbread, too flat to slice for breakfast: The painful pancake. Kevin Purdy You wanted avocado toast; now you've got this. Kevin Purdy Bugs and syntax errors in bakingWhen using recipes, theres a strong, societally reinforced idea that there is one best, tested, and timed way to arrive at a finished food. Thats why we have Americas Test Kitchen, The Food Lab, and all manner of blogs and videos promoting food hacks. I should know; I wrote up a whole bunch of them as a young Lifehacker writer. I'm still a fan of such things, from the standpoint of simply getting food done.As such, the ultimate hack for making bread is to use commercial yeast, i.e., dried active or instant yeast. A manufacturer has done the work of selecting and isolating yeast at its prime state and preserving it for you. Get your liquids and dough to a yeast-friendly temperature and youve removed most of the variables; your success should be repeatable. If you just want bread, you can make the iconic no-knead bread with prepared yeast and very little intervention, and youll probably get bread thats better than you can get at the grocery store.Baking sourdoughor naturally leavened, or with levainmeans a lot of intervention. You are cultivating and maintaining a small ecosystem of yeast and bacteria, unleashing them onto flour, water, and salt, and stepping in after theyve produced enough flavor and liftbut before they eat all the stretchy gluten bonds. What that looks like depends on many things: your water, your flours, what you fed your starter, how active it was when you added it, the air in your home, and other variables. Most important is your ability to notice things over long periods of time.The Bread Code's depiction of how sourdough starters are born, developed, and refined. The Bread Code The Bread Code's depiction of how sourdough starters are born, developed, and refined. The Bread Code If you take nothing else from The Bread Code, take this: You can measure a sample of your dough in an easy-to-read container, rather than guess at a big bowl. The Bread Code If you take nothing else from The Bread Code, take this: You can measure a sample of your dough in an easy-to-read container, rather than guess at a big bowl. The Bread Code The Bread Code's depiction of how sourdough starters are born, developed, and refined. The Bread Code If you take nothing else from The Bread Code, take this: You can measure a sample of your dough in an easy-to-read container, rather than guess at a big bowl. The Bread Code When things go wrong, debugging can be tricky. I was able to personally ask Kleinwchter what was up with my bread, because I was interviewing him for this article. There were manypotential answers, including:I should recognize, first off, that I was trying to bake the hardest kind of bread: Freestanding wheat-based sourdoughYou have to watchand smellyour starter to make sure it has the right mix of yeast to bacteria before you use itUsing less starter (lower inoculation) would make it easier not to over-fermentEyeballing my dough rise in a bowl was hard; try measuring a sample in something like an aliquot tubeWinter and summer are very different dough timings, even with modern indoor climate control.But I kept with it. I was particularly susceptible to wanting things to go quicker and demanding to see a huge rise in my dough before baking. This ironically leads to the flattest results, as the bacteria eats all the gluten bonds. When I slowed down, changed just one thing at a time, and looked deeper into my results, I got better. The Bread Code YouTube page and the ways in which one must cater to algorithms. Credit: The Bread Code The Bread Code YouTube page and the ways in which one must cater to algorithms. Credit: The Bread Code YouTube faces and TikTok sausageEmailing and trading video responses with Kleinwchter, I got the sense that he, too, has learned to go the slow, steady route with his Bread Code project. For a while, he was turning out YouTube videos, and he wanted them to work. Im very data-driven and very analytical. I always read the video metrics, and I try to optimize my videos, Kleinwchter said. Which means I have to use a clickbait title, and I have to use a clickbait-y thumbnail, plus I need to make sure that I catch people in the first 30 seconds of the video. This, however, is not good for us as humans because it leads to more and more extreme content.Kleinwchter also dabbled in TikTok, making videos in which, leaning into his German heritage, the idea was to turn everything into a sausage. The metrics and imperatives on TikTok were similar to those on YouTube but hyperscaled. He could put hours or days into a video, only for 1 percent of his 200,000 YouTube subscribers to see it unless he caught the algorithm wind.The frustrations inspired him to slow down and focus on his site and his book. With his communitys help, The Bread Code has just finished its second Kickstarter-backed printing run of 2,000 copies. Theres a Discord full of bread heads eager to diagnose and correct each other's loaves and occasional pull requests from inspired readers. Kleinwchter has seen people go from buying what he calls Turbo bread at the store to making their own, and thats what keeps him going. Hes not gambling on an attention-getting hit, but hes in better control of how his knowledge and message get out.I think homemade bread is something thats super, super undervalued, and I see a lot of benefits to making it yourself, Kleinwchter said. Good bread just contains flour, water, and saltnothing else. A test loaf of rosemary olive sourdough bread. An uneven amount of olive bits ended up on the top and bottom, because there is always more to learn. Credit: Kevin Purdy A test loaf of rosemary olive sourdough bread. An uneven amount of olive bits ended up on the top and bottom, because there is always more to learn. Credit: Kevin Purdy You gotta keep doing itthats the hard partI cant say it has been entirely smooth sailing ever since I self-certified with The Bread Code framework. I know what level of fermentation Im aiming for, but I sometimes get home from an outing later than planned, arriving at dough thats trying to escape its bucket. My starter can be very temperamental when my house gets dry and chilly in the winter. And my dough slicing (scoring), being the very last step before baking, can be rushed, resulting in some loaves with weird ears, not quite ready for the bakery window.But thats all part of it. Your sourdough starter is a collection of organisms that are best suited to what youve fed them, developed over time, shaped by their environment. There are some modern hacks that can help make good bread, like using a pH meter. But the big hack is just doing it, learning from it, and getting better at figuring out whats going on. Im thankful that folks like Kleinwchter are out there encouraging folks like me to slow down, hack less, and learn more.Kevin PurdySenior Technology ReporterKevin PurdySenior Technology Reporter Kevin is a senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, covering open-source software, PC gaming, home automation, repairability, e-bikes, and tech history. He has previously worked at Lifehacker, Wirecutter, iFixit, and Carbon Switch. 42 Comments Prev story

Super cool Rocket Report: A good week for Blue Origin; Italy wants its own launch capability Blue Origin is getting ready to test-fire its first fully integrated New Glenn rocket in Florida. Stephen Clark Nov 28, 2024 7:00 am | 33 Blue Origin's first fully integrated New Glenn rocket rolls out to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin's first fully integrated New Glenn rocket rolls out to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Credit: Blue Origin Story textSizeSmallStandardLargeWidth *StandardWideLinksStandardOrange* Subscribers only Learn moreWelcome to Edition 7.21 of the Rocket Report! We're publishing the Rocket Report a little early this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. We don't expect any Thanksgiving rocket launches this year, but still, there's a lot to cover from the last six days. It seems like we've seen the last flight of the year by SpaceX's Starship rocket. A NASA filing with the Federal Aviation Administration requests approval to fly an aircraft near the reentry corridor over the Indian Ocean for the next Starship test flight. The application suggests the target launch date is January 11, 2025.As always, we welcome reader submissions. If you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.Another grim first in Ukraine.For the first time in warfare, Russia launched an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile against a target in Ukraine, Ars reports. This attack on November 21 followed an announcement from Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier the same week that the country would change its policy for employing nuclear weapons in conflict. The IRBM, named Oreshnik, is the longest-range weapon ever used in combat in Europe, and could be refitted to carry nuclear warheads on future strikes.Putin's rationale ... Putin says his ballistic missile attack on Ukraine is a warning to the West after the US and UK governments approved Ukraine's use of Western-supplied ATACMS and Storm Shadow tactical ballistic missiles against targets on Russian territory. The Russian leader said his forces could attack facilities in Western countries that supply weapons for Ukraine to use on Russian territory, continuing a troubling escalatory ladder in the bloody war in Eastern Europe. Interestingly, this attack has another rocket connection. The target was apparently a factory in Dnipro that, not long ago, produced booster stages for Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket.Blue Origin hops again.Blue Origin launched its ninth suborbital human spaceflight over West Texas on November 22, CollectSpace reports. Six passengers rode the company's suborbital New Shepard booster to the edge of space, reaching an altitude of 347,661 feet (65.8 miles or 106 kilometers), flying 3 miles (4.8 km) above the Krmn line that serves as the internationally-accepted border between Earth's atmosphere and outer space. The pressurized capsule carrying the six passengers separated from the booster, giving them a taste of microgravity before parachuting back to Earth.Dreams fulfilled ... These suborbital flights are getting to be more routine, and may seem insignificant compared to Blue Origin's grander ambitions of flying a heavy-lift rocket and building a human-rated Moon lander. However, we'll likely have to wait many years before truly routine access to orbital flights becomes available for anyone other than professional astronauts or multimillionaires. This means tickets to ride on suborbital spaceships from Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic are currently the only ways to get to space, however briefly, for something on the order of $1 million or less. That puts the cost of one of these seats within reach for hundreds of thousands of people, and within the budgets of research institutions and non-profits to fund a flight for a scientist, student, or a member of the general public. The passengers on the November 22 flight included Emily Calandrelli, known online as "The Space Gal," an engineer, Netflix host, and STEM education advocate who became the 100th woman to fly to space. (submitted by Ken the Bin) The Ars Technica Rocket Report The easiest way to keep up with Eric Berger's and Stephen Clark's reporting on all things space is to sign up for our newsletter. We'll collect their stories and deliver them straight to your inbox.Sign Me Up!Rocket Lab flies twice in one day. Two Electron rockets took flight Sunday, one from New Zealands Mahia Peninsula and the other from Wallops Island, Virginia, making Rocket Lab the first commercial space company to launch from two different hemispheres in a 24-hour period, Payload reports. One of the missions was the third of five launches for the French Internet of Things company Kinis, which is building a satellite constellation. The other launch was an Electron modified to act as a suborbital technology demonstrator for hypersonic research. Rocket Lab did not disclose the customer, but speculation is focused on the defense contractor Leidos, which signed a four-launch deal with Rocket Lab last year.Building cadence ... SpaceX first launched two Falcon 9 rockets in 24 hours in 2021. This year, the company launched three Falcon 9s in a single day from pads at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, and Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Rocket Lab has now launched 14 Electron rockets this year, more than any other Western company other than SpaceX. "Two successful launches less than 24 hours apart from pads in different hemispheres. Thats unprecedented capability in the small launch market and one were immensely proud to deliver at Rocket Lab," said Peter Beck, the company's founder and CEO. (submitted by Ken the Bin)Italy to reopen offshore launch site. An Italian-run space center located in Kenya will once again host rocket launches from an offshore launch platform, European Spaceflight reports. The Italian minister for enterprises, Adolfo Urso, recently announced that the country decided to move ahead with plans to again launch rockets from the Luigi Broglio Space Center near Malindi, Kenya. "The idea is to give a new, more ambitious mission to this base and use it for the launch of low-orbit microsatellites," Urso said.Decades of dormancy ... Between 1967 and 1988, the Italian government and NASA partnered to launch nine US-made Scout rockets from the Broglio Space Center to place small satellites into orbit. The rockets lifted off from the San Marco platform, a converted oil platform in equatorial waters off the Kenyan coast. Italian officials have not said what rocket might be used once the San Marco platform is reactivated, but Italy is the leading contributor on the Vega C rocket, a solid-fueled launcher somewhat larger than the Scout. Italy will manage the reactivation of the space center, which has remained in service as a satellite tracking station, under the country's Mattei Plan, an initiative aimed at fostering stronger economic partnerships with African nations. (submitted by Ken the Bin)SpaceX flies same rocket twice in two weeks.Less than 14 days after its previous flight, a Falcon 9 booster took off again from Florida's Space Coast early Monday to haul 23 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit, Spaceflight Now reports. The booster, numbered B1080 in SpaceX's fleet of reusable rockets, made its 13th trip to space before landing on SpaceX's floating drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The launch marked a turnaround of 13 days, 12 hours, and 44 minutes from this booster's previous launch November 11, also with a batch of Starlink satellites. The previous record turnaround time between flights of the same Falcon 9 booster was 21 days.400 and still going ... SpaceX's launch prior to this one was on Saturday night, when a Falcon 9 carried a set of Starlinks aloft from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The flight Saturday night was the 400th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2010, and SpaceX's 100th launch from the West Coast. (submitted by Ken the Bin)Chinese firm launches upgraded rocket. Chinese launch startup LandSpace put two satellites into orbit late Tuesday with the first launch of an improved version of the Zhuque-2 rocket, Space News reports. The enhanced rocket, named the Zhuque-2E, replaces vernier steering thrusters with a thrust vector control system on the second stage engine, saving roughly 880 pounds (400 kilograms) in mass. The Zhuque-2E rocket is capable of placing a payload of up to 8,800 pounds (4,000 kilograms) into a polar Sun-synchronous orbit, according to LandSpace.LandSpace in the lead ... Founded in 2015, LandSpace is a leader among China's crop of quasi-commercial launch startups. The company hasn't launched as often as some of its competitors, but it became the first launch operator in the world to successfully reach orbit with a methane/liquid oxygen (methalox) rocket last year. Now, LandSpace has improved on its design to create the Zhuque-2E rocket, which also has a large niobium allow nozzle extension on the second stage engine for reduced weight. LandSpace also claims the Zhuque-2E is China's first rocket to use fully supercooled propellant loading, similar to the way SpaceX loads densified propellants into its rockets to achieve higher performance. (submitted by Ken the Bin)NASA taps Falcon Heavy for another big launch. A little more than a month after SpaceX launched NASA's flagship Europa Clipper mission on a Falcon Heavy rocket, the space agency announced its next big interplanetary probe will also launch on a Falcon Heavy, Ars reports. What's more, the Dragonfly mission the Falcon Heavy will launch in 2028 is powered by a plutonium power source. This will be the first time SpaceX launches a rocket with nuclear materials onboard, requiring an additional layer of safety certification by NASA. The agency's most recent nuclear-powered spacecraft have all launched on United Launch Alliance Atlas V rockets, which are nearing retirement.The details Dragonfly is one of the most exciting robotic missions NASA has ever developed. The mission is to send an automated rotorcraft to explore Saturn's largest moon, Titan, where Dragonfly will soar through a soupy atmosphere in search of organic molecules, the building blocks of life. It's a hefty vehicle, about the size of a compact car, and much larger than NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter. The launch period opens July 5, 2028, to allow Dragonfly to reach Titan in 2034. NASA is paying SpaceX $256.6 million to launch the mission on a Falcon Heavy.(submitted by Ken the Bin)New Glenn is back on the pad. Blue Origin has raised its fully stacked New Glenn rocket on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of pre-launch testing, Florida Today reports. The last time this new 322-foot-tall (98-meter) rocket was visible to the public eye was in March. Since then, Blue Origin has been preparing the rocket for its inaugural launch, which could yet happen before the end of the year. Blue Origin has not announced a target launch date.But first, more tests Blue Origin erected the New Glenn rocket vertical on the launch pad earlier this year for ground tests, but this is the first time a flight-ready (or close to it) New Glenn has been spotted on the pad. This time, the first stage booster has its full complement of seven methane-fueled BE-4 engines. Before the first flight, Blue Origin plans to test-fire the seven BE-4 engines on the pad and conduct one or more propellant loading tests to exercise the launch team, the rocket, and ground systems before launch day.Second Ariane 6 incoming. ArianeGroup has confirmed that the first and second stages for the second Ariane 6 flight have begun the transatlantic voyage from Europe to French Guiana aboard the sail-assisted transport ship Canope, European Spaceflight reports. The second Ariane 6 launch, previously targeted before the end of this year, has now been delayed to no earlier than February 2025, according to Arianespace, the rocket's commercial operator. This follows a mostly successful debut launch in July.An important passenger While the first Ariane 6 launch carried a cluster of small experimental satellites, the second Ariane 6 rocket will carry a critical spy satellite into orbit for the French armed forces. Shipping the core elements of the second Ariane 6 to the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, is a significant step in the launch campaign. Once in Kourou, the stages will be connected together and rolled out to the launch pad, where technicians will install two strap-on solid rocket boosters and the payload fairing containing France's CSO-3 military satellite.Next three launchesNov. 29: Soyuz-2.1a | Kondor-FKA 2 | Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia | 21:50 UTCNov. 30: Falcon 9 | Starlink 6-65 | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida | 05:00 UTCNov. 30: Falcon 9 | NROL-126 | Vandenberg Space Force Base, California | 08:08 UTCStephen ClarkSpace ReporterStephen ClarkSpace Reporter Stephen Clark is a space reporter at Ars Technica, covering private space companies and the worlds space agencies. Stephen writes about the nexus of technology, science, policy, and business on and off the planet. 33 Comments

E-mails and pop-up messages encouraging the use of multi-factor authentication or complex passwords made users throughout the world aware that last month was cybersecurity awareness month. Many are also still being reminded of -- and becoming numb to -- the personal stakes of cybersecurity breaches, thanks to free credit monitoring offers in the aftermath of far-too-regular personal data theft from the financial, healthcare, and human resources institutions that we trust to keep our information safe. But just as we didnt address the automotive safety threats addressed in Unsafe at Any Speed through either blind trust in existing safety features or a defeatism around the hazards of automotive accidents, we shouldnt allow the mounting stakes of cybersecurity to go unchecked.Given the pervasiveness of personal data theft as a cybercrime, its easy to believe that the consequences of a cyberattack would be limited to individual harm that can be detected and remedied through free credit monitoring and a messy-but-doable identity recovery process following a breach. Its equally easy to believe that the nation-state hackers who use sophisticated attacks that can cause not only individual financial and corporate reputational damage, but also massive societal impact, have limited their hacking to high-level government-controlled systems. However, recent events have proven that this is not the case.Related:Americans got their first taste of the potential physical and economic impact of a cyberattack in May 2021, when Eastern European cyber criminals caused the shutdown of Colonial Pipelines operations due to ransomware in its IT systems -- a breach that did not even directly impact the critical operational technology (OT) systems that control the pipeline itself. The criminal actors responsible were able to extract a multimillion-dollar ransom, most of which was recovered thanks to law enforcement collaboration. Criminal attacks against utilities remain ongoing, as evidenced by the August cyberattack against Halliburton; moreover, utilities and even the government wont always be able to pay their way out of a cyberattack.The next time America, or one of its close allies, experiences a major infrastructure attack, our credibility on the world stage and the sovereignty of our partners abroad may be at stake. A China-affiliated cyber actor, codenamed Volt Typhoon, was conducting low-profile hacks to be able to orchestrate a massive everything, everywhere, all at once cyberattack that could impact the availability of power and water across the United States. Such an attack would be used to weaken American resolve to support Taiwan in the event of an invasion or other hostile action, warned US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly in January 2025.Related:CISA, in partnership with US law enforcement and intelligence agencies, has built unprecedented intelligence sharing and cybersecurity collaboration mechanisms with critical infrastructure providers to mitigate this capability, but the drumbeat of attacks has not stopped. In the midst of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an unattributed attack on American Water and a China-linked attack against US telecom providers that may have targeted lawful intercept capabilities were potent reminders that hackers arent just after our money --theyre also trying to jeopardize access to basic necessities and invade our privacy, even if theyre holding their full capabilities in reserve to strike at the moment thats most advantageous for them.As strong as the collaboration between government and critical infrastructure in the cybersecurity space has made us, its not enough to overcome the threat of highly sophisticated attackers using AI to target industrial systems, but also personal accounts and devices to gain a foothold in corporate networks. Software companies must incorporate more secure coding practices as CISA is encouraging with its Secure by Design and Default initiatives. Cybersecurity companies must keep innovating to create technologies that can defuse new types of attacks, like a browser-based attack developed in mid-2024 that could compromise a computer if a user so much as viewed a compromised image file.Related:But at the end of the day, its not enough that the US Government and corporations -- both those that deploy enterprise software and those who develop it -- emphasize cybersecurity. Each of us must realize that cybersecurity is a fundamental safety concern that merits due diligence in our day-to-day lives. In the automotive world, more than 60 years of life-threatening accidents occurred between the production of the Model T and the requirements for safety belts; it took 20 more years for laws requiring drivers and passengers to use them. Its been 30 years since the introduction of the World Wide Web to the public, and its evident that we dont have 80 years to only create, but also embrace, technology to enforce internet security and safety. The threats are accelerating, and neither the US Government nor free credit monitoring alone can save us.

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