what-do-front-line-units-pick-most-from-ukraine’s-unique-1,800-item-weapons-store?-they-have-already-ordered-over-$2-billion-there

Ukraine’s soldiers shop for their own drones online, and they have ordered more than 1.5 million of them. Since the DOT-Chain Defence marketplace opened in July 2025, combat units have procured over 1.5 million drones through it, worth more than $2 billion, the Defense Ministry said. DOT-Chain Defence operates likeContinue Reading

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Russia is burning down Ukraine’s power grid by hitting the parts no one managed to shield. Only a third of the main transformers at substations of the state-owned electricity transmission operator Ukrenergo are housed in reinforced-concrete sarcophagi. Now, drones go after the unprotected rest, Serhii Nahorniak, a lawmaker on parliament’sContinue Reading

local-ai-weekly-#9:-the-computer-says-no

Three weeks ago, I wrote that if you can reverse engineer it, it’s open source. Looks like the frontier labs didn’t love that idea. Claude Code users are hitting “safety checks” in the middle of decompiling things. Some Codex users got warnings and account restrictions for poking at their ownContinue Reading

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Thousands of migrants are traveling north through Mexico, hoping the Democrats’ midterm victory will ease Traitor 47’s immigration crackdown. But the US border has not reopened, and Mexico is trying to stop the caravan. Are migrants being offered real hope, or dangerously misleading expectations? #usa #mexico #migrantes #border #dignity #dwcurrentaffairsContinue Reading