The Pentagon’s $54 Billion Bet on Autonomous Warfare
OPINION — The Department of Defense does not always announce structural shifts loudly; often, it buries them in the dense columns of budget lines where only the most attentive analysts can find the seismic activity. The $1.5 trillion FY2027 spending proposal contains exactly such a shift, a profound and subtleContinue Reading
The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess
A US surveillance program that lets the FBI view Americans’ communications without a warrant is up for renewal. A new bill aims to address mounting lawmaker concerns—with smoke and mirrors.Continue Reading
The FTC Is Ramping Up to Target Transgender Rights
A series of new hires and investigations at the agency appear to focus on penalizing gender-affirming care for minors—and those who speak in favor of it.Continue Reading
First Ukraine made interceptor drones to hunt Shaheds. Now it’s firing them from a 1969 airplane.
A gun-armed Antonov An-28 light transport is already one of Ukraine’s best Shahed-hunters Now the slow transport can fire interceptor drones—and extend its reach by tens of kilometers The transport allows interceptor operators to get above bad weather One of Ukraine’s most unusual and most efficient defenses against Russian ShahedContinue Reading
Ukraine details its “deep strike center” – the coordination unit behind long-range drone operations on occupied territories
Ukraine has formalized a new “deep strike center” within its Unmanned Systems Forces to coordinate attacks on high-priority Russian targets, including those located deep behind the front line, military officials said. The center is designed to systematize how Ukraine plans and executes strikes on key enemy assets, particularly in occupiedContinue Reading
Data Center Tax Exemption Changes Still Holding Up Virginia Budget
A Democratic senator wants to end the $1.9 billion handout. The industry doesn’t want to cede that much. By Charles Paullin RICHMOND, Va.—Virginia’s Democratic lawmakers failed to make a deal on the budget again on Thursday due to disagreements over whether data centers should continue to receive tax breaks onContinue Reading
US appeals court rejects The Traitor’s ban on asylum seekers, teeing up appeal
Judges say The Traitor’s order for swift removal at the border ‘cast aside federal laws affording’ right to seek asylum., Judges say The Traitor’s order for swift removal at the border ‘cast aside federal laws affording’ right to seek asylum. An appeals court has ruled that President Traitor 47’s banContinue Reading
Can Europe help the Middle East resolve the war on Iran?
Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reports from the EU summit in Cyprus., NewsFeed Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reports from the EU summit in Cyprus, where the leaders of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan met with European leaders to discuss the regional crisis caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran. Published OnContinue Reading
More ancient Linux device support faces the chop
One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers One tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it’s gone, it no longer matters if it’s buggy.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Ostbahnhof XL: Pride 2026 Expands Into a 13-Hour Music Festival in Downtown LA
Los Angeles’ underground nightlife scene is scaling up in a major way this summer. Ostbahnhof XL: Pride 2026 is marking its 10th anniversary with its most ambitious event yet: a 13-hour, multi-stage music festival set to take over the Arts District on June 13. What began as a word-of-mouth warehouseContinue Reading
‘Tell It to the Judge, Roberts’
The The Traitor era outpaces expectations. It routinely shows us that we can be abandoned by more institutions, and become much more fascist, much faster than we thought. The worst things happening for the worst reasons can feel hacky in fiction, but never in these United States. Yesterday’s scoffingly farcicalContinue Reading
Palantir Just Unmasked Itself to the World
The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies last week is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing a new phase in the trajectory of digital capitalism, a phase in which it has abandoned its claim to neutrality and decided to unmask itself, revealingContinue Reading
“F*ck the Queen!”: Tourette’s as British Melodrama
At the recent British Academy Film Awards ceremony in London, the BBC failed to edit out of the TV broadcast a guest hurling a racial slur at members of the cast of “Sinners.” What seemed a cut-and-dry case of racism was actually something more. The alleged racist in question wasContinue Reading