COLORADO SPRINGS – Sophia Space will begin deploying edge compute nodes on Kepler Communications satellites in late 2026, under a strategic pact announced April 13. Through the partnership, Sophia Space will demonstrate its Orbital Data Center (ODC) software, while relying on Kepler’s optical data relay network “to enable distributed, resilient compute infrastructure in space,” according […] The p

Rocket Lab has won a contract from Japanese radar satellite company iQPS for three additional Electron launches. The post Rocket Lab wins contract for three more iQPS launches appeared first on SpaceNews .

Darktrace has released a new research report, “Crimson Echo: Understanding Chinese-nexus Cyber Tradecraft Through Behavioral Analysis” which looks at how Chinese-nexus cyber activity is evolving and the threats its poses.... The post Darktrace’s Research Shows New Chinese Modus Operandi appeared first on Via Satellite .

Anthropic has announced an ambitious new project as it looks to play a key role in securing the world’s most critical software. It is teaming up with Amazon Web Services,... The post Anthropic Launches Project Glasswing for Cybersecurity appeared first on Via Satellite .

Space companies face an ever-growing attack surface, including a recent upsurge of attacks from Iran. Top CISOs of space companies from Vantor, SES, Viasat, and Telesat shared a view into... The post Top Space Cyber Execs Talk Increased Iranian Cyber Attacks appeared first on Via Satellite .

The National Security Agency (NSA) along with a number of other parties, has released a new Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI), a report that highlights high-level cybersecurity risks and mitigation strategies... The post NSA Reveals Details of New LEO Security Report appeared first on Via Satellite .

China successfully deployed a satellite internet technology test payload on Saturday, April 11, marking a continued push toward establishing its sovereign Low Earth Orbit (LEO) communications infrastructure. The mission utilized […]

The global satellite industry underwent a significant structural shift in 2025, as compact designs solidified their dominance over orbital manifestos. According to data released by analysis firm BryceTech covering the […]

As the complexity of the orbital environment intensifies, the Space Telecommunications, Astronomy and Radiation Laboratory (STAR Lab) at MIT is evolving its mission set beyond hardware innovation. Under the leadership […]

The report is particularly surprising since the Department of Defense recently declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk.

Anthropic was the star of the show at San Francisco's AI-centric conference.

Former diplomat Richard Haass on Saturday said that tensions between the U.S. and the Vatican have reached a 23 out of a 1-to-10 scale. "Morning Joe Weekend" co-host Willie Geist asked Haass how unusual a reported threat from the Pentagon to the Vatican's former diplomat was during a meeting in January. "On a scale of...

Targeting the growing requirement for resilient space domain awareness and autonomous orbital infrastructure, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will unveil its latest suite of revolutionary technologies at the 41st […]

On Tuesday, April 7, 2026, Northrop Grumman successfully launched the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program S29A (STP-S29A) mission from Space Launch Complex 8 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. […]

The OpenAI CEO's new blog post responds to both an apparent attack on his home and an in-depth New Yorker profile raising questions about his trustworthiness.

Missile warning and tracking programs, and the emerging Space Data Network being developed to ferry space sensor data to shooters on the ground, in the air and at sea are among the programs seeing huge increases.

Joseph Welch, the Army’s PAE C5ISR, talks with Mark Pomerleau on the Pentagon Buzz this week.

The agreement came after the FAA conducted testing in New Mexico on the laser system used by the Pentagon and Homeland Security Department.

Lockheed in January discussed a target of increasing annual PAC-3 interceptor production from approximately 600 to 2,000 over a span of seven years.

The Army Data Operations Center’s debut is part of an enormous push to further integrate data and machine learning into military operations.

Lockheed in January discussed a target of increasing annual PAC-3 interceptor production from approximately 600 to 2,000 over a span of seven years.

The first delivery under the Andromeda contract vehicle will be for the RG-XX constellation. The post Space Force brings 14 vendors into $1.8B next-gen space domain awareness program appeared first on DefenseScoop .

Earlier this week, Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said it had committed more than $600 million in unmanned aerial system defenses for Operation Epic Fury and stateside efforts. The post U.S. military to continue dispatching counter-drone capabilities to the Middle East appeared first on DefenseScoop .

The EDU director will oversee the hub as the deputy secretary’s principal advisor for economic competition across the Defense Department. The post DOD officially launches new Economic Defense Unit to mesh military aims with global financial sway appeared first on DefenseScoop .

Based in Herndon, Virginia, the company specializes in space-based radio-frequency signals intelligence for government agencies The post HawkEye 360 files to go public appeared first on SpaceNews .

BryceTech, one of the leading space research firms, has released its 2025 Year in Review tracking the launch market. It shows a market moving towards small satellites, and underlines the... The post BryceTech Report Shows SpaceX Accounted for 50% of Launches in 2025 appeared first on Via Satellite .

Neuraspace CEO Chiara Manfletti leads a Portuguese space traffic management company that already protects Spire Global's 100-plus satellite constellation. At SmallSat Europe, she joins a panel assessing whether Europe's smallsat sector is maturing fast enough.

The department is looking to create a “menu of priority AI export packages that the U.S. Government will promote to allies and partners around the world.” The post Commerce setting up new AI export regime to push adoption of ‘American AI’ abroad appeared first on CyberScoop .

The inquiry follows reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that allege the tech giants are deficient in their reporting of CSAM and data related to generative AI generally.

A U.K. communications regulator, Ofcom, has said it will be cracking down on the spread of the images in the aftermath of the Grok scandal, which led to millions of “nudified” images of women and children to be circulated worldwide.

Last week, the family of one of two victims in the attack announced it plans to sue OpenAI because the gunman allegedly constantly communicated with ChatGPT in the days leading to the shootings.

OPINION — Australia is entering one of the most complex and psychologically destabilizing security periods in its modern history. The ASIO Director‑General’s Annual Threat Assessment 2025 underscored a strategic environment defined by accelerating foreign interference, sharper geopolitical competition, and a domestic threat landscape that is more fragmented, more digitally enabled, and more unpred

OPINION — Washington’s strategy for artificial general intelligence (AGI), or the ability to replace human cognitive labor, assumes the United States is locked in a decisive race with Beijing—one requiring maximum acceleration and denial of Beijing’s access to semiconductor chips and technology. This approach, as captured in the White House’s AI Action Plan from last year, echoes the race in the 1

This ban took place after Claude's pricing changed for OpenClaw users last week.

OpenAI ignored three warnings that a ChatGPT user was dangerous — including its own mass-casualty flag — while he stalked and harassed his ex-girlfriend, a new lawsuit alleges.

SusHi Tech 2026 is zeroing in on four technology domains reshaping society: AI, Robotics, Resilience, and Entertainment. Expect live demos of humanoid robots, sessions on autonomous driving's software revolution, deep dives into cyber defense and climate tech, and candid conversations about how AI is rewriting the global music and anime industries.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Constellations —Constellations is a short story by Jeff VanderMeer, the author of the critically acclaimed, bestselling Southern Reach series. A spacecraft has crash-landed on a hostile planet. The only survivors…

The service has tapped 14 firms to compete for rolling task orders through April 2036 under the Andromeda program, formerly known as RG-XX.

The Pentagon already closely tracks dual-use technology, but The Heritage Foundation’s Brent Sadler and Allen Zhang write in this op-ed that it’s past time to keep an eye on potential dual-use maritime infrastructure.

Small defense industry artificial intelligence startups are suddenly fielding calls from generals, combatant commanders and deep-pocketed investors.

Small defense industry artificial intelligence startups are suddenly fielding calls from generals, combatant commanders and deep-pocketed investors.

Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado, and Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, could have on-site nuclear microreactors by 2030. The post Air Force names 2 bases that could host nuclear ‘microreactors’ appeared first on Task & Purpose .

Michael Horowitz, who pushed for the LUCAS drone program while at the Pentagon, offers unique insights into its genesis and future. The post How America’s Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drone Clone Suddenly Became An “Indispensable” Weapon Of War appeared first on The War Zone .

Tracking data shows the MQ-4C rapidly losing altitude after declaring an unspecified in-flight emergency. The post Navy MQ-4C Triton’s Fate Unknown After Disappearing From Flight Tracking Over Persian Gulf appeared first on The War Zone .

Deputy Director Michael Ellis said the spy agency recently used AI to generate an intelligence report for the first time.

Terms such as air superiority are being misapplied, obscuring the dangers that are downing and damaging U.S. aircraft.

he Pentagon is no longer asking whether commercial space will matter in future conflicts. It is building a strategy around the assumption that it will. The post A new kind of arsenal: commercial satellites appeared first on SpaceNews .

The companies will compete for contracts to build ‘neighborhood watch’ satellites The post Space Force taps 14 firms for $1.8 billion GEO surveillance program appeared first on SpaceNews .

The new architecture combines high resolution with rapid revisit The post Vantor to expand imaging satellite fleet, adding smallsats to increase revisit rates appeared first on SpaceNews .

CAS Space and Space Pioneer have both debuted new Chinese commercial launchers within days of… The post China debuts new launchers, tests orbital servicing and outlines future deep-space missions appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .

Description A graphical representation of the Deep Space Network’s radio frequency antennas indicate signal acquisition from NASA’s Artemis II mission to the Moon on April 1, 2026, inside the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Two antennas at the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex, Deep Space Station 54 and […] The post The Deep Space

Description The acquisition of the radio frequency signal from the Artemis II crewed mission to the Moon by NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) is indicated by the peak in the data signal shown on the top computer screen. Soon after the mission’s launch on April 1, 2026, at 6:35 p.m. EDT, NASA’s Near Space Network […] The post The Deep Space Network Acquires Artemis II Signal appeared first on NASA Sc

Description Blanca Renteria, Artemis Deep Space Network (DSN) operations chief, monitors data at the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California shortly after Artemis II launched from the agency’s Kennedy Space Flight Center in Florida on April 1, 2026, at 6:35 p.m. EDT. The Space Flight Operations Facility operates the […] The post Watching Over the

Morpheus Space CEO and co-founder Daniel Bock built a modular electric propulsion company from a TU Dresden lab to orbit. At SmallSat Europe, he joins a panel asking whether orbital environmental services can become a real commercial market.

Censys researchers warned that thousands of devices are exposed to the Iranian government’s campaign targeting energy, water, and U.S. government services and facilities. The post Iranian attacks on US critical infrastructure puts 3,900 devices in crosshairs appeared first on CyberScoop .

Experts say advancements in hardware, mathematics and growing fear of Chinese scientific breakthroughs are pushing Google and others to call for speedier migration. The post Why is the timeline to quantum-proof everything constantly shrinking? appeared first on CyberScoop .

FBI cyber chief Brett Leatherman told CyberScoop the Russian GRU campaign was unique in how it could propagate from routers to beyond. The post Inside the FBI’s router takedown that cut off APT28’s ‘tremendous access’ appeared first on CyberScoop .

As traditional fraud markers become obsolete, we must treat digital identity as critical infrastructure and adopt a layered, real-time defense to neutralize sophisticated crime rings. The post Don’t just fight fraud, hunt it appeared first on CyberScoop .

Almost 800 Hungarian government email addresses and associated passwords are circulating online, revealing basic vulnerabilities in the security protocols of ministries involved in classified and sensitive work. A Bellingcat analysis of breach data shows that 12 out of the government’s 13 ministries have been affected, which in some cases have exposed the confidential information of […] The post ‘

OPINION — In this issue we will discuss implications of the Drone Dominance Program, how weakness in the U.S. industrial base has been laid bare, and how the war with Iran could benefit our adversaries. Private capital can play a critical role in national defense, but we need to focus financially and politically on our long-term objectives. Welcome to The Iron Triangle, the Cipher Brief column ser

OPINION — Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air superiority and missile defense systems ( THAAD , Patriot batteries) designed to counter tens/hundreds of aircraft and missiles is insufficient against asymmetric attacks of thousands of drones. And that 2) undefended high-value fixed civilian infrastructur

The company's novel rocket engine could be a game changer for the U.S. military.

OpenAI announced on Thursday something that power users have been asking for: a $100/month plan. Previously, subscriptions jumped from $20 to $200 per month.

ChatGPT had reportedly been used to plan the attack that killed two and injured five at Florida State University last April. The family of one victim has said that they plan to sue OpenAI over the incident.

Anthropic said this week that it limited the release of its newest model, dubbed Mythos, because it is too capable of finding security exploits in software relied upon by users around the world. Are real cybersecurity concerns a cover for a bigger problem at the frontier lab?

Andy Jassy's annual shareholder letter reads something like a diss track to a wide range of competitors as he defends spending $200 billion in capex.

Claude Mythos Preview has found vulnerabilities in "every major operating system and web browser," company officials say.

More information will likely follow from Battle Damage Assessments and other evaluations conducted in the immediate wake of combat operations. The post Pentagon brass tout destruction of Iran’s drone arsenal, but questions linger about what’s left appeared first on DefenseScoop .

SpaceX’s Pad 2 at Starbase is continuing to refine its preparations for the return of… The post SpaceX continues refinements at Starbase Pad 2 ahead of Booster 19 return appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .

Access Now, Lookout and SMEX joined research forces to find a campaign involving suspected Indian government-connected group Bitter, ProSpy spyware and more. The post Hack-for-hire spyware campaign targets journalists in Middle East, North Africa appeared first on CyberScoop .

OPINION — Five weeks into the US-Israeli war against Iran, the immediate military picture — decapitation strikes, missile exchanges, and the grinding attrition of Iranian launch capacity — dominates headlines. But the more consequential story is playing out in the war’s cascading second- and third-order effects: the economic shock reverberating through global energy and food systems, the hardening

Poke brings AI agents to everyday users via text message by handling tasks and automations without complex setup, apps, or technical know-how.

AWS has an ingrained culture of handling competition, he explained, because the cloud giant also competes with its partners.

Russian satellites have made detailed imagery surveys of military facilities to help Iran strike U.S. forces, according to a Ukrainian intel assessment.

The U.S. Navy is requesting $3 billion to replenish its stockpile of Tomahawk missiles that have been depleted over the course of the Iran war.

China may have surpassed the United States in AI for drone swarms, one Taiwan-based analyst said.

The secretive drone continues to be spotted flying during the day, offering new insights into its features. The post New Views Of Massive RQ-180 Stealth Drone Flying Over Greece appeared first on The War Zone .

The recovery of much of a kill vehicle from a THAAD ballistic missile interceptor could be major intelligence loss. The post THAAD Kill Vehicle’s Infrared Seeker Appears To Have Been Found In Syria Intact appeared first on The War Zone .

The hackers have targeted federal and local governments, water systems, and energy infrastructure, say cyber and intelligence agencies.

"Secondary title" is fine for letterhead, but not for court filings, inspector general warns in April 1 memo.

The Defense Department is looking to update how older planes see each other and absorb data.

The Army's request comes amid concerns over the Pentagon draining its weapon stockpiles during Operation Epic Fury. The post Army looks to quadruple procurement for Precision Strike Missile in 2027 appeared first on DefenseScoop .

Forest Blizzard, a threat group attributed to Russia’s GRU, hijacked network traffic to steal credentials and tokens for Microsoft accounts and other services. The post Feds quash widespread Russia-backed espionage network spanning 18,000 devices appeared first on CyberScoop .

The program comes as the tech industry races to secure software before similar AI-powered offensive capabilities become too much for defenders to handle. The post Tech giants launch AI-powered ‘Project Glasswing’ to identify critical software vulnerabilities appeared first on CyberScoop .

Iranian government hackers are launching disruptive cyberattacks on American energy and water infrastructure, U.S. government agencies “urgently” warned Tuesday. The hackers are taking aim at devices and systems that control industrial processes, and have harmed victims in the last month following the onset of U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran, according to the joint alert from the […] The post Ira

The FBI’s annual report on digital crimes exposes a worsening environment. Yet, an unknown number of victims still suffer in the shadows never reporting the crimes they endure. The post Cybercrime losses jumped 26% to $20.9 billion in 2025 appeared first on CyberScoop .

Access to open source visuals of the current Iran conflict, which has spread to many parts of the Middle East, continues to be sporadic. Videos and photos from within Iran trickle out on social media as the Iranian internet blackout hinders the flow of digital communication. In past conflicts, satellite imagery has provided a vital […] The post When Satellite Imagery Goes Dark: New Tool Shows Dama

Six weeks into Operation Epic Fury , with airstrikes having killed a sitting supreme leader, wiped out scores of top military and intelligence commanders, and significantly degraded Iran’s missile arsenal and naval capacity, Washington is confronting a conclusion that was reached by its own intelligence community before the first bomb fell: the Islamic Republic is not going anywhere. A National In

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OPINION — “The use cases that help to drive the research agenda can come from a variety of different settings…We need to acknowledge that it's okay for those use cases to come from the Department of War (DoW) and Intelligence Community (IC). It's our responsibility to be able to help put the best minds here in the U.S., the best talent here in the U.S., to help unlock some of that research and inn

Unlike static, rules-based systems, AI agents can learn, adapt, and optimize processes dynamically. As they interact with data, systems, people, and other agents in real time, AI agents can execute entire workflows autonomously. But unlocking their potential requires redesigning processes around agents rather than bolting them onto fragmented legacy workflows using traditional optimization methods

The past several years have produced a quiet but consequential shift in how the United States understands, and fails to understand, time. American strategy has gradually weakened through bureaucratic cuts, institutional downgrades, and political incentives that privilege immediacy over endurance and partisanship over long-term statecraft. The temporary elimination of the Pentagon’s Office of Net A

The new Pentagon policy was likely in the works before the Iran war began, but it still holds relevance as the military plans for any future mass mobilization, experts say. The post Pentagon calls Individual Ready Reserve a ‘mobilization asset’ in new policy appeared first on Task & Purpose .

Large sums of money were spent trying to build a spy drone just like the RQ-180 for a very specific mission decades beforehand. The post RQ-180’s Likely Role Over Iran Foreshadowed By Secret Cold War Stealth Drone Program appeared first on The War Zone .

The remaining Avenger minehunters are in Japan, while Pentagon testing has revealed problems with the LCS.

Lori Glaze: "We have seen real commitment to try and do that... from both Blue and from SpaceX."

OPINION — Strategic intelligence, usually perceived as intelligence supporting the formulation of strategy, has always had limited influence over national security decisions. Leaders in democratic countries, let alone in authoritarian ones, have their own ideological views of the world, and their own vision of ways to shape the world. They do not rely only on their intelligence agencies for sense-

OPINION — While the war has yet to conclude, we have enough information to create a preliminary net assessment of its effects on U.S. security and prosperity. Spoiler alert: the war is on track to be a net negative for Americans. Instead of focusing on variously articulated war aims, this assessment strives to assess a selected but broader range, admittedly unscientifically derived, of U.S. intere

OPINION — Russia and China are certainly concerned about the desperate state of Iran’s regime, an invaluable transactional partner to both countries. Yet they are also working to secure more strategic gains at America’s expense. Both likely prefer—and are enabling—a drawn out, grinding, and unpopular U.S.-led war that strains U.S. military reserves, alliances, global influence, and deterrence. The

On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we debated Elon Musk's vision for data centers in space.

Unleashing submunitions at high altitudes has helped Iran to get through Israel's terminal missile defenses, and is a tactic others will likely seize upon. The post Iran Is Piercing Israel’s Ballistic Missile Defenses With High Altitude Cluster Warhead Releases appeared first on The War Zone .

Tech firms are more willing to spend their own money on R&D.

The 2027 request may renew a dogfight between the Pentagon, White House, and Congress.

Restrictive agreements with defense contractors leave service members unable to fix the expensive ships, fighter jets, and ground vehicles they depend on. The post Right to repair: Why the US military can’t fix much of its own equipment appeared first on Task & Purpose .

Liftoff from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened Saturday at 1:46 a.m. EDT (0546 UTC).

OPINION – The Cipher Brief broke new ground when it published my piece addressing scams as a national security issue in December 2023. Two years later, there is broad consensus that transnational criminals are attacking our citizens and businesses at unprecedented scale, and the White House has responded with a new Executive Order to combat the surge in cybercrime. It is time to raise our defenses

OPINION — The countries that get held up as models for this kind of US led attack are worth looking at closely, because they’re instructive in the wrong direction. Iraq fell in twenty-one days in 2003, but Saddam Hussein was running a hollow state. His military had been gutted by a decade of sanctions, the 1991 Gulf War, and the no-fly zones. There was no grassroots ideological loyalty to the man

Amazon denies violation, says SpaceX caused conflict by lowering Starlink satellites.

Amazon wants in on the low-Earth orbit Internet action.

Bellingcat has identified several high-profile incidents where authorities in the United Arab Emirates have downplayed damage, mischaracterised interceptions and in some instances not acknowledged successful Iranian drone strikes on the country. A review of official statements shows that the public account does not always align with what can be observed through open sources. This comes […] The pos

THE BLUF: The January 3rd Operation Absolute Resolve ousted Venezuelan Dictator Nicholas Maduro but the full consequences of the US operation continue to play out. With that move, the subsequent Shield of America’s coalition, and apparent blockade of Cuba, the Trump administration has made one message clear to the world and that is that the US is pushing back on adversaries’ influence in the weste

OPINION — Iran is the right place to start. Not because it is the most sophisticated adversary in disinformation—but because it is the most instructive. It has built a working infrastructure. It is using it in a live conflict. And it is showing us exactly what AI will make possible over the next five years. This is not a future problem. The architecture is already under construction. Within hours

What U.S. national security interest binds Greenland, Argentina, the Congo, and the Cook Islands? What was the impetus for the recent “strategic resilience” bill in Congress? And as Washington retreats from many global alliances, what’s the issue driving a U.S. push for closer ties with more than 50 nations? The answer to all three questions involves critical minerals – integral elements in everyt

Next time around, the pressure will be on SpaceX and Blue Origin.

What if the next war is decided not by drone swarms, hypersonic missiles, or AI — but by good, old-fashioned human creativity? We have undervalued the mindset dimension that is critical to innovation yet it is the cornerstone of defense organizations’ adaptability and very difficult to scale. We cannot buy (military) innovators.One of the most important shifts happening inside NATO today is not a

This article is the result of a collaboration with Josimar. You can find Josimar’s corresponding piece here. A European academic used a false name to represent an opaque Asian-facing bookmaker that is sponsoring Croatia’s national football team in the run up to the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Croatia’s national governing body of football, the Croatian […] The post Croatia’s Football Team Signed Deal With

OPINION — For thirty years, American wars have contained a quiet assumption: that the skies were uncontested. From Grenada and Panama, through Desert Storm, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya - the US could reliably achieve air superiority very quickly, almost a preordained fighting condition. Operation Epic Fury, however, has challenged that assumption, marking the first time in a generation the US has

The company has also lined up an unusually large number of 21 banks to manage the mega IPO, internally codenamed “Project Apex."

Editor’s Note: War on the Rocks is running “for” and “against” articles on the war with Iran by legislators with military backgrounds. You can find the other article here.The view from a C-130 during a combat mission in the Middle East provides clarity that is often lost in the sanitized briefing rooms of Washington. As an Air Force medical crew director, I have looked into the eyes of young servi

The video posted by a state branch of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) showed Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma shooting an image of two men in Muslim skull caps. “Foreigner-free Assam”, read one caption across the video. “Why did you not go to Pakistan?” said another. One of the men in the photo […] The post How India’s Ruling Party is Using AI to Boost Hate Speech in States Nea

OPINION — “Nuclear facilities on both [the Iranian and Israeli] sides have been targeted. That’s where we are in this war, and that’s how far it’s escalated. If a nuclear reactor like [Iran’s] Bushehr [nuclear power plant] were hit there’s a significant risk of a meltdown and leaks of extremely dangerous radioactive materials that would affect all countries in the [Middle East] region, and, of cou

Executive Summary Since President Xi Jinping's 2013 directive to "tell the story of China well" (讲好中国古事), the People's Republic of China has developed a systematic thirteen-year strategy treating "discourse power" (话语权) as a core component of Comprehensive National Power (CNP). This approach has enabled measurable influence gains, demonstrating that narrative power is not supplementary propaganda

Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida happened at 5:15 p.m. EDT (2115 UTC).

The Transporter-16 mission is the 21st mission in the company’s smallsat rideshare program. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base occurred at 4:02 a.m. PDT (7:02 a.m. EDT / 1102 UTC).

Explosives test in Canada. Source: Defence Research and Development Canada. The post Explosive Misinformation: A Guide to Mushroom Clouds, ‘Sonic Weapons’ and Disintegration appeared first on bellingcat .

For roughly two weeks, the Karachi, a Pakistani-flagged Aframax tanker loaded with crude at Das Island in Abu Dhabi, sat waiting for a signal that never came through official channels. When it finally moved, it did not take the standard shipping lane. It hugged the Iranian coast, threading through the narrow gap between the islands of Larak and Qeshm, a route mariners are normally advised against,

In 1918, the U.S. Supreme Court held that government contractors could be sued for patent infringement even if their products were manufactured specifically for the U.S. government. Franklin D. Roosevelt, then acting secretary of the Navy, wrote an urgent letter to Congress warning that contractors were hesitant to build equipment for the Navy that could expose them to expensive litigation. Congre

It is 2029. General Secretary Xi Jinping has given the order for the People’s Liberation Army to forcibly take Taiwan. Hundreds of Chinese warships begin to cross the Taiwan strait, supported by fighter jets and protected by an umbrella of electronic jamming. 80 kilometers from Taiwan’s coast, the first blow comes from below. Autonomous underwater vehicles lurking on the seabed detonate against th

Bellingcat has geolocated and verified two new videos showing the deadly strikes that hit an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) compound as well as an adjacent school in the city of Minab in late February. The new videos were released by Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and show multiple missiles hitting the complex. One of […] The post Two Waves of Bombing: New Videos Reveal Further Detai

OPINION — The White House is making a significant effort toward putting the nation’s cyber house in order. A newly released National Cyber Strategy represents a big step in the right direction for U.S. national security policy — advocating for the aggressive defense of our national infrastructure. While the strategy includes important goals for the administration — streamlining regulation, develop

OPINION — The countries that get held up as models for this kind of US led attack are worth looking at closely, because they’re instructive in the wrong direction. Iraq fell in twenty-one days in 2003, but Saddam Hussein was running a hollow state. His military had been gutted by a decade of sanctions, the 1991 Gulf War, and the no-fly zones. There was no grassroots ideological loyalty to the man

Liftoff of the Starlink 17-17 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, in California occurred at 4:03 p.m. PDT (7:03 p.m. EDT / 2303 UTC).

The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. Several people were killed according to Iranian media. Three experts told Bellingcat the munitions appeared to be air-delivered US-made Gator anti-tank mines. The US is the only participant in the Iran war known to […] The post Evidence Points to US Scattering Mines ove

Somewhere in a defense ministry, someone is drafting a policy on whether to permit AI-assisted software development in defense procurement. The sentiment is understandable, but the policy is unfortunately unenforceable because the code is already there.In April 2025, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella told an audience that 20 to 30 percent of code in some Microsoft repositories is now

As Iranian-designed Shahed drones struck critical infrastructure across the Persian Gulf in early March, military planners in Washington confronted an uncomfortable reality. The weapons that have terrorized Ukrainian cities for four years were now exposing gaps in some of the world’s most advanced air defense networks. Gulf states burned through expensive Patriot interceptors at alarming rates, wi

OPINION – When ransomware groups hit Romania’s national water agency , its largest coal-fired power producer and oil pipeline operator all in recent months, it would have been easy to file each incident under “criminal nuisance” and move on. But the ransomware gangs targeting the national critical infrastructure, including groups like Qilin and Gentlemen, are not merely profit-driven criminals ope

Sift is building the data infrastructure for advanced manufacturing.

The nuclear non-proliferation regime is a global framework of norms, practices, and diplomatic agreements — underpinned by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) — designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. The regime has had both failures and successes over the decades. Perhaps the biggest challenge in recent years came from Iran. The country’s nuclear activities raised international co

Munition remnants pictured at the site of a strike that killed at least 17 people in the town of Tiné, Chad, last week appear to match a weapon previously used by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the war with Sudanese government forces – despite RSF denials of involvement in the incident. Photographs showed what […] The post Munition Remnants Pictured at Site of Deadly Chad Strike Match Weapo

In 2017, Marco Rubio, then Florida’s junior senator, was assigned a Capitol Police security detail because the U.S. received unverified but alarming intelligence that Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro’s feared chief enforcer was sending a hit man to assassinate him . Today, in an epic irony, Rubio, now Secretary of State, and his boss, President Donald Trump, have turned to that same enforcer –

OPINION - After the joint U.S. - Israeli strikes against Iran’s nuclear program last June and after the spectacular raid that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, U.S. President Donald Trump must have begun to feel like the ruler of the world. “ For he was ruler of the world and he knew not what to do. But he would think of something.” —Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Ody

OPINION – The current conflict with Iran highlights a longstanding, core premise that national security comes from visible instruments of power - weapons. While hard power will always be critical to national security, national security is not created by accumulated hard power. It is created by enduring internal capacity that prevents the need to rely on hard power. This enduring internal capacity

When the United States and Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities in June last year, the operation caught many observers off guard — the planning was tightly concealed. By contrast, when Operation Epic Fury started in the early hours of Feb. 28, much of the world was staying up refreshing their screens, waiting for it to begin. Open source analysts tracked the usual indicators of escalation: sate

On June 30, 2025, as part of the process of normalizing relations with Damascus following the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Trump administration overhauled the sanctions imposed on Syria to facilitate the rebuilding of that war-ravaged country. In the course of revising these sanctions, however, 266 employees of the Scientific Studies and Research Center, the heart of the Assa

"Project Sunrise" would include more than 50,000 satellites performing high-energy compute on orbit.

Less than a month after the repeal of Caesar Act sanctions, Syria’s transitional president Ahmad al Sharaa launched an offensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, triggering Arab tribal defections and a rapid loss of territory. The fallout has jeopardized Islamic State containment in northeast Syria by disrupting intelligence networks built by the Syrian Democratic Forces, widening

A Bellingcat investigation has identified nine Facebook groups with a combined membership of more than 70,000 people, in which coded language has helped illegal wildlife dealers evade bans on the platform for years. Facebook says it prohibits any form of animal trading on its platform. Investigating the operators behind all nine groups, Bellingcat identified six […] The post How Wildlife Trafficke

Amid waves of Iranian drone attacks, the U.S. Defense Department is pushing to finally field high-energy laser weapons in the next 36 months.

In recent years, as AI has begun to enter military planning and operational design, a persistent unease has surfaced among practitioners. Even with improved tools, increased tempo, and unprecedented access to data, plans continue to falter on integration, coherence, and a shared sense of direction. Marco Lyons’ recent War on the Rocks article on the perceived decline of operational art gives voice

Why would the West underwrite the very system it has spent four years trying to contain? Yet that’s exactly what Russia has proposed, and what some leaders in Washington might be willing to entertain.In February 2026, Russia proposed an economic reintegration plan (the “Dmitriev package”) that it claims would be worth $14 trillion. The package includes sanctions relief, aeronautics contracts and r

At conferences, in pitch decks, and increasingly in public writing, “service” is increasingly being used to describe the work of startup founders, employees, and venture capital investors in defense technology. The claim, sometimes explicit, more often implied, is that building defense technology is itself a form of service comparable to uniformed military service.It is visible in corporate messag

An alliance is only as credible as the runway it can repair under fire.The Pentagon’s latest National Defense Strategy clarifies American aims in the Indo-Pacific while exposing what those aims demand of frontline allies such as the Philippines. The strategy’s emphasis on a “strong denial defense” shifts the metric of credibility. Though the strategy does not specify the objectives to be denied, i

The United States did not enter the war with Iran because it was attacked or was about to be attacked. It seems to have entered after concluding that once Israel moved, American involvement would be unavoidable. When Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefed congressional leaders last week, three days before the strikes began, the debate, as later reported by the Washington Post, was not whether to f

Indonesia is rapidly expanding its naval fleet to meet its blue-water ambitions. But, for much of the past decade, budget constraints and limited political attention meant the country could focus only on acquiring small- and medium-sized naval vessels.That pattern has shifted noticeably in recent years.Jakarta has moved ahead with the procurement of larger and more capable platforms, including two

The deal could give Anduril a better shot at lucrative missile defense contracts through the "Golden Dome" system.

In this interview, Siva Ravada, Vice President of Development at Oracle, discusses why enterprise AI must be built on trusted, proprietary data foundations. He explains how Oracle integrates geospatial intelligence […] The post Enterprise AI Needs Trusted, Proprietary Data Foundations appeared first on Geospatial World .

The company's first demonstration mission is expected in early 2027.

On Jan. 7, 2026, President Donald Trump announced:I have determined that, for the Good of our Country, especially in these very troubled and dangerous times, our Military Budget for the year 2027 should not be $1 Trillion Dollars, but rather $1.5 Trillion Dollars…While the specifics of the request have not yet been released, a $1.5 trillion defense budget would be a roughly 50 percent increase on

Editor’s note: This article is the third in an 11-part series examining how the United States should organize, lead, and integrate economic statecraft into strategy, defense practice, and the broader national security ecosystem. This special series is brought to you by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and War on the Rocks. Prior installments can be found at the War by Other Ledgers page. I

Congress has unintentionally shifted the burden of preventing an unconstitutional war squarely onto the military. By failing to exercise its war powers, it has positioned the American military as a firewall made of parchment between itself and the White House. Democratic members of Congress and the Senate have issued solemn warnings regarding unlawful orders and disobedience, hoping the military w

This plenary panel at GeoBuiz Summit 2026 examines how artificial intelligence, automation, and digital twins are converging to transform the AEC industry from project-based delivery to continuous, data-driven infrastructure management. […] The post Optimization of AI, Automation, and Digital Twins for the AEC Industry | GeoBuiz Summit 2026 appeared first on Geospatial World .

In this expert panel from GeoBuiz Summit 2026, industry leaders explore the urgent need for resilient Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) systems as GPS disruptions, spoofing, and jamming incidents continue […] The post Resilient Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) | GeoBuiz Summit 2026 appeared first on Geospatial World .

Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of legacy cloud infrastructure. TQ Ventures led the round, with participation from FPV Ventures , Redpoint

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide. But its pricing — ranging from $20 to $200 per month depending on usage — has sparked a growing rebellion among the very programmers it aims to serve. N

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs , needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budget — on a billboard in San Francisco displaying what looked like gibberish: five strings of random numbers. The numbers were actually AI tokens. Decoded, they led t

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees. The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is S

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself. The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, po

Nous Research , the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm , released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems — trained in just four days using 48 of Nvidia's latest B200 graphics processors . The model, called NousCoder-14B , is another entry in a crowded field of AI coding assista

When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen — it takes notes. For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X from Boris Cherny , the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic . What began as a casual sharing of his personal terminal setup has spiraled into a viral manifesto on the future of software develo

DARPA says it has built the world’s largest, most realistic electronic warfare test capability.

Most commercial firms can't access test space where they can refine their products under conditions they might face in the field. DIU wants to change that.