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Rep. McCaul Declares “Russia Is Not Our Friend” — Accuses Moscow Of “Stalking” A U.S.-Owned Commercial Satellite And Taking Its Ransomware And Infrastructure “Playbook” To Space

Rep. McCaul Declares “Russia Is Not Our Friend” — Accuses Moscow Of “Stalking” A U.S.-Owned Commercial Satellite And Taking Its Ransomware And Infrastructure “Playbook” To Space

WASHINGTON — Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said Monday that Russia is “stalking a U.S.-owned commercial satellite,”

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Navy Laser Weapon System mounted aboard USS Ponce

How the Navy’s Laser Weapon System aboard USS Ponce shot down a ScanEagle drone and hit a speeding small boat in Persian Gulf tests in 2014, at less than a dollar per shot

By the Navy’s own figure, each shot cost less than a dollar. In the fall

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Aerial view of desert terrain at the Nevada National Security Site

The NNSA set off a conventional explosion inside a Nevada tunnel to improve how the U.S. detects underground nuclear tests muffled by decoupling

A nuclear device fired inside a large underground chamber, rather than packed against solid rock,

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Stratolaunch's Roc carrier aircraft in flight.

Stratolaunch has bought a Boeing 777 to air-launch its Talon-A hypersonic test vehicles, giving it three carrier jets after more than 10 hypersonic flights

Stratolaunch is turning a Boeing 777-200ER into its third carrier aircraft, an airborne launch platform

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Hegseth Announces Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to Co-Lead Project Meridian — Promises Troops “Absolute Technological Superiority” “From Under the Earth to Beyond the Moon”

Hegseth Announces Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to Co-Lead Project Meridian — Promises Troops “Absolute Technological Superiority” “From Under the Earth to Beyond the Moon”

War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that Elon Musk, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and former

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Slotkin Warns Trump Not to Let Chinese Automakers “Get Their Foot in the Door” of the American Market — “This Is a National Security and an Economic Security Issue”

Slotkin Warns Trump Not to Let Chinese Automakers “Get Their Foot in the Door” of the American Market — “This Is a National Security and an Economic Security Issue”

U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, issued a pointed warning to President Donald Trump

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U.S. Confirms First-Ever Weapons in Orbit, Ending Decades of Official Silence on Space Warfare — Officials Say Systems Can "Disrupt, Degrade, and Even Destroy" Hostile Threats

U.S. Confirms First-Ever Weapons in Orbit, Ending Decades of Official Silence on Space Warfare — Officials Say Systems Can “Disrupt, Degrade, and Even Destroy” Hostile Threats

The United States has weapons in orbit right now, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told

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Kamala Harris Says AI Is Advancing at an "Alarming Speed," Demands a Global AI Slowdown Before It "Escapes Human Control," Says Trump Must Pursue a Treaty to Stop China's "Dangerous Uses of AI"

Kamala Harris Says AI Is Advancing at an “Alarming Speed,” Demands a Global AI Slowdown Before It “Escapes Human Control,” Says Trump Must Pursue a Treaty to Stop China’s “Dangerous Uses of AI”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris warned on Monday that artificial intelligence is developing at a

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Obama Says the Trump Administration Called the Iran War "the Best War Ever," Asks "How's That War Going?" Nearly Eight Months After U.S. Strikes Began

Obama Warns AI Could Bring “Amazing Breakthroughs” or “Potential Catastrophe,” Says the Outcome “Will Depend on the Choices We Make Right Now” — Warns It’s “Moving at Lightning Speed” Faster Than Its Own Engineers Can Control

Former President Barack Obama, who spent eight years as commander-in-chief weighing threats to American security,

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China's Military Quietly Accelerates Humanoid Robots For Combat And Firing On Human-Verified Targets — "Combatants" 

China’s Military Quietly Accelerates Humanoid Robots For Combat And Firing On Human-Verified Targets — “Combatants” 

China’s military establishment is accelerating research into the battlefield use of humanoid robots, mapping out

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