Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will test-launch an experimental reusable rocket, the RV-X, on Saturday from its Noshiro Rocket Test Center in Akita prefecture to cut launch costs and respond to SpaceX technology. The flight, originally planned for March, was delayed by bad weather and equipment faults. JAXA has been developing reusable launchers since 2016 and carried out multiple engine burn tests last year; it aims to field a lower-cost reusable rocket in the early 2030s to replace

Techradar reports European cloud provider Nextcloud left an unprotected database on the public internet, exposing sensitive internal and customer data that anyone with the access path could retrieve. Nextcloud is an open-source platform for building private clouds and is often used as an alternative to Google Drive or Microsoft 365 to control data location.

Meta unveiled Muse Spark 1.1 with a new paid developer tier—its first time charging businesses for model access—creating a potential new revenue stream. The non-open-source model will be distributed via a Meta Model API with a limited free token allowance; access beyond a token threshold will be paid. Meta says API pricing is roughly 25% of comparable OpenAI and Anthropic quotes. CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted marked improvements in agent inference, tool use and coding, and described the API launch and pricing as aggressive to broaden developer adoption.