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ACLU Says Drone Regulation Is Becoming a Tool of Government and Corporate Power — With DroneXL’s Own Reporting as Evidence
The ACLU's new whitepaper argues U.S. drone rules favor government and corporations over citizens — and cites DroneXL's own protest surveillance reporting as evidence.
FCC Bans Foreign Routers Citing Security Risks — The Same Playbook Used To Ground DJI
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 23, 2026, banned the import of all new foreign-made consumer wireless routers, adding them to its Covered List after a White House-convened interagency panel determined they pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could…
Beyond Drones: How a 7,000-Unit Vacuum Hack is Fueling the DJI Ban
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a hawkish national security think tank with a documented history of opposing Chinese technology in U.S. markets, has filed a formal response with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), urging the agency to reject…
Kansas City Police Launch Drone First Responder Program
Eight drone nests, 30 seconds to scene, and a Chinese-made aircraft at the center of an American public safety debate. Kansas City just went live. The System That Gets There Before the Cruiser Eight drone nests are now positioned across…
UC Irvine’s FlyTrap Attack Defeats DJI Mini 4 Pro and HoverAir X1 Autonomous Tracking With an Ordinary Umbrella
The paper dropped this week at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in San Diego, and the finding is blunt: an ordinary umbrella covered with an AI-generated pattern can trick autonomous target-tracking drones into flying directly toward the person…
Finland Orders Parrot ANAFI UKR Drones for ISR Boost
The Finnish Defence Forces are doubling down on micro UAV power, announcing the procurement of the Parrot ANAFI UKR to strengthen intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities across the force, as Parrot announced it in a Press Release. Deliveries are expected…
DJI ROMO Security Breach: Researcher Remotely Accessed 7,000 Home Cameras — And One Hole Remains
Sammy Azdoufal wanted to drive his new DJI ROMO robot vacuum with a PS5 controller. Just for fun. So he used Claude Code to reverse-engineer the DJI app’s communication protocols, built a custom client, and connected it to DJI’s servers.…
DHS Drone Video Accidentally Advertises DJI
The Department of Homeland Security recently released a short promotional video highlighting its drone operations, complete with soaring music, slow motion aircraft, and bold on screen language about innovation and airspace security, as reported by Futurism. It is exactly the…
200 Million TikTok Users Got Four Deadline Extensions. ~850,000 Drone Pilots Got Nothing. Here’s Why.
When TikTok faced its January 2025 ban deadline, something remarkable happened. The app briefly went dark. Users flooded RedNote in protest, with 3 million Americans downloading a Chinese app they couldn’t even read as a middle finger to Congress. The…
DJI vs. TikTok: The Chinese Drone Giant Tried a US Strategy First, Then Abandoned It for Shell Companies
TikTok just pulled off what many considered impossible. On Thursday, ByteDance agreed to spin out a U.S. TikTok entity where non-Chinese investors will own approximately 80 percent of the American app. ByteDance keeps just 19.9 percent. The deal effectively neutralizes…
House Homeland Security Chair Calls Drones a “New, Growing Frontier” of Threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure
The same week DHS announced its permanent counter-drone office and FEMA began distributing $500 million in C-UAS grants, the House Homeland Security Committee held an oversight hearing that spelled out exactly why the federal government is treating drones as a…
ABZ Innovation Raises €7M as European Ag Drone Maker Bets on Post-DJI Ban Opportunity
The day after Drone Nerds added Hungarian-made agricultural drones to its US product lineup, the manufacturer behind them announced a €7 million funding round. The timing is not coincidental. ABZ Innovation, a Budapest-based heavy-duty agricultural drone manufacturer, closed the round…