What to know as ceasefire in the Iran war hangs in the balance
The ceasefire in the Iran war hangs in the balance as Pakistan’s capital stands prepared for possible new talks between Tehran and Washington.
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Major 7.4-magnitude quake hits off Japan, tsunami warning issued
Major 7.4-magnitude quake hits off Japan, tsunami warning issued
Bulgaria’s Kremlin-friendly ex-president wins sweeping election victory
Bulgarian former president Rumen Radev, an EU critic who has called for renewing ties with Russia, has won an absolute majority in parliamentary elections that could spell an end to the country’s half-decade of political uncertainty but also potential…
‘Technofascism’: Critics accuse Palantir of pushing AI war doctrine
Palantir CEO Alexander Karp’s book The Technological Republic advocates for Western ‘hard power … built on software’.
News24 | ANALYSIS | The Chagos conundrum – a high-stakes game of brinkmanship
The Iran war has upended the process of transferring the archipelago’s sovereignty from the UK to Mauritius, write Zoë McCathie and Ronak Gopaldas in ISS Today.
52M-Download protobuf.js Library Hit by RCE in Schema Handling
Critical RCE flaw in protobuf.js lets attackers execute code via malicious schemas. Learn who is at risk, affected versions, and how to fix it.
Anthropic MCP Design Vulnerability Enables RCE, Threatening AI Supply Chain
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical “by design” weakness in the Model Context Protocol’s (MCP) architecture that could pave the way for remote code execution and have a cascading effect on the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain….
Gulf nation warns US it could ditch petrodollar for yuan – WSJ
The UAE has reportedly threatened the ditch the dollar in oil trade during talks on a potential currency swap with the US Treasury
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U.S. Army Exploring Its Own Aerial Refueling Capacity
Brian Everstine, Aviation Week The U.S. Army is looking at ways to do its own aerial refueling and get more training for its special operations helicopter crews, especially as it looks at…
U.S. Firm Unveils Comet Drone Boat Armed With Air Defense Missiles
DefBlog Baltimore-based BlackSea Technologies publicly unveiled its Comet unmanned surface vessel, displaying the platform armed with missiles for both air defense and surface strike…