Giant Lionel Messi statue dismantled in Kolkata
A 21-metre statue of Lionel Messi in Kolkata has been removed less than a year after its unveiling due to safety fears over its stability in strong winds.
Month: June 2026
News24 | US court blocks Trump plan to expel transgender military service members
A US appeals court said US President Donald Trump’s administration could, for now, bar transgender people from enlisting in the military, but blocked the expulsion of current service members while a lawsuit plays out.
Didi reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$8.7B and a ~$177M net loss, several times larger than its Q4 loss, as it expands globally in markets like Latin America (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
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Didi reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$8.7B and a ~$177M net loss, several times larger than its Q4 loss, as it expands globally in markets like Latin America — Didi Global Inc. reported its second straight qu…
At Shangri-La, Washington and SE Asia Talked Past Each Other
the interpreter The Dialogue’s starkest divide wasn’t between Washington and Beijing – it was between Washington and its own partners.
Space Force Wants 5 New Tactical Ops Centers for Electronic Warfare
A&SF The Space Force wants to make its electronic warfare capabilities more resilient by building five new tactical EW centers in the U.S. and around the globe
General Dynamics Will Spend $200M to Reboot Ammo Plant
Capaccio, Bloomberg General Dynamics Corp. will invest $200 million of its own money…
Space-Based Interceptors for Golden Dome
Sandra Erwin, SpaceNews Northrop Grumman has partnered with satellite manufacturing startup Apex to develop space-based interceptors for the Golden Dome missile defense program
HASC Wants the Army To Consider Sea Drones for Escort Missions
USNI News Lawmakers want the Army to examine the use of unmanned surface vessels to escort its watercraft against threats the ground branch may face during contested logistics
Man set to climb INSIDE Timmy the whale’s carcass to carry out autopsy after botched £1.3m rescue failed to save beast
A PATHOLOGIST will climb inside the bloated carcass of Timmy the whale to carry out an autopsy following a botched £1.3million rescue operation. The 20-ton humpback was hauled ashore in Denmark after being adrift in the Baltic Sea for two weeks. The de…
The Intersection of Encryption and AI
As part of their 20th Anniversary celebration, Dark Reading asked five cybersecurity industry leaders who wrote blogs or columns for them over the years to select their favorite piece and share their reflections on the topic today. This is my section.
Renowned technologist and author Bruce Schneier contributed a column on June 20, 2010, warning about cryptography’s inability to secure modern networks, a point he says he has been trying to argue since 2000.
“For a while now, I’ve pointed out that cryptography is singularly ill-suited to solve the major network security problems of today: denial-of-service attacks, website defacement, theft of credit card numbers, identity theft, viruses and worms, DNS attacks, network penetration, and so on…