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The quiet rural area around R.A.F. Fairford, where U.S. bombers fly to Iran, was thrust into the spotlight after the authorities said they were investigating a possible terrorist plot targeting the base.
Megan SpeciaEnglandMilitary Bases and Installations
Kristen Michal says attack ‘against Milrem Robotics was ordered by Russian special services’, after Kremlin denies involvementRutte begins by recalling a drone shot down in Lithuanian airspace by Nato fighter jets two weeks ago.He says “the repeated drone incidents along our eastern flank showed the evolving nature of the threat, and we are strengthening our integrated air and missile defence.”“We are adapting and reinforcing our posture against drones.” Continue reading...
Jakub Krupa (now and earlier) and Martin Belam (earlier)EuropeEstonia
Sudan's foreign minister addressed the UNGA as his country faces war, mass displacement and a worsening aid shortfall.
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Iran has long been accused of links with the Houthis in Yemen, but how far do these links go?
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First Native American woman to serve as US cabinet secretary candid about history with alcohol as she seeks to tackle billowing public health crisis “It clouds your mind,” recalls Deb Haaland, the trailblazing US cabinet secretary now running to be New Mexico’s next governor. “They say that, after the first drink, you lose your judgment.”Haaland developed a drinking problem after leaving high school and was twice arrested for driving under the influence. But in her 20s she decided to get sober, a battle that required personal commitment and critical external support. She went on to become a member of Congress, one of the first two Native American women ever elected to the House, and then to become the first Native American to serve as a US cabinet secretary. Continue reading...
David Smith in WashingtonNew MexicoDeb Haaland
The industry is engaged in a perverse quest to replace humans. We cannot cede the best tools available to the other sideI don’t need to tell you that people hate AI. The list of grievances is long: slop, cheating, bias, enfeeblement, electricity bills, environmental destruction, exploitation, theft, cybercrime, doom. But resistance to the technology has often taken the form of shaming people for personally using it, with precious little organizing against the companies building the machines. This is perplexing, given that those companies are attempting to render us obsolete.The executives may contest this framing, offering some bromides about how AI will augment human work or how we’ll simply find new jobs to do. But their clear goals are to create systems that so clearly surpass our abilities that we will have little hope of competing. Continue reading...
Garrison LovelyAI (artificial intelligence)US news
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
Kim Barker, Maria Varenikova and Oleksandra MykolyshynRussian Invasion of Ukraine (2022)Drones (Pilotless Planes)
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