Russia has unveiled a new modular defense structure designed to shield its oil refineries and other critical energy infrastructure from the wave of Ukrainian drone strikes that has battered the country’s fuel production capacity for more than a year. The system, called Web, was developed by RT-Project Technologies, a subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned defense conglomerate … Read more
Dubai has entered a period of official mourning following the death of Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who passed away on Monday morning at the age of 76. The Dubai Media Office confirmed his death, and the Court of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the … Read more
A year ago, most people had never heard of Flock Safety. The company had quietly built a business selling automated license plate reader cameras to homeowners associations and police departments, marketing itself as a simple crime-solving tool rather than anything that might draw national scrutiny. That changed dramatically over the course of 2026, and the … Read more
The United States has publicly acknowledged for the first time that it has placed weapons in orbit, a disclosure that marks a genuine departure from decades of official American reticence on the subject even as Washington has repeatedly warned about Russia and China potentially militarizing space themselves. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink made the announcement … Read more
China’s artificial intelligence models are being used at enormous scale, but that surging adoption still hasn’t translated into anything close to comparable revenue against their American rivals, according to new estimates published Thursday by research firm Rhodium Group. All of China’s AI models combined generate roughly $10.7 billion in annual recurring revenue, about 10 percent … Read more
Unsealed Court Filings Show Microsoft Executive Privately Called AI Training “The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History” A newly unsealed court filing in The New York Times’ long-running copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft has surfaced a striking internal admission: a senior Microsoft executive privately described the industry-wide practice of scraping web content to … Read more
Russia has quietly turned a decades-old training missile, originally built solely as target practice for air defense crews, into one of the most heavily used weapons in its current bombardment of Ukraine, according to official Ukrainian data reviewed by Reuters. The repurposed missile, known as the RM48U, made up more than half of the 228 … Read more
A delivery worker riding his bike late Tuesday night narrowly escaped serious injury after plunging into an open, unlit sewer pit in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, in an incident residents say has been an accident waiting to happen for weeks. CCTV footage of the fall, captured near Hindustan Compound in Kanpur’s Jajmau area, has since spread … Read more
A United Nations fact-finding mission has concluded there are reasonable grounds to believe US forces were responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian primary school that killed more than 150 people, including around 120 schoolchildren, according to a new report set to be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The findings … Read more
Thick haze has settled over the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, choking the city of Pontianak and surrounding communities as the country battles its most intense wildfires in eleven years. Driven by what meteorologists are describing as super-El Niño conditions, the fires have pushed temperatures up and triggered punishing droughts … Read more