{"slug": "amazon-leo-constellation-nears-400-satellites-as-broadband-launch-looms", "title": "Amazon Leo constellation nears 400 satellites as broadband launch looms", "summary": "Amazon's Project Kuiper satellite broadband constellation is nearing 400 satellites in orbit as the company prepares for commercial service launch. The milestone brings Amazon closer to competing with SpaceX's Starlink in the satellite internet market.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme\n\nWhat's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### Companies that add more AI also add more people\n\nBut doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training\n\nJapanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse\n\nCapabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI\n\nRisk factors galore\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up\n\nNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default\n\n-\n#### Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form\n\nRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK\n\n-\n#### Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'\n\nMore Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too\n\n-\n#### France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well\n\nNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another\n\n-\n#### History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system\n\nWhen a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'\n\n-\n#### Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it\n\nProject Headroom could save you big money, too", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amazon-leo-constellation-nears-400-satellites-as-broadband-launch-looms", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/07/03/amazon-leo-constellation-nears-400-satellites-as-broadband-launch-looms/5266588", "published_at": "2026-07-03 16:06:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-03 20:59:43.578429+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Amazon", "Project Kuiper", "SpaceX", "Starlink"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amazon-leo-constellation-nears-400-satellites-as-broadband-launch-looms", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amazon-leo-constellation-nears-400-satellites-as-broadband-launch-looms.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amazon-leo-constellation-nears-400-satellites-as-broadband-launch-looms.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amazon-leo-constellation-nears-400-satellites-as-broadband-launch-looms.jsonld"}}