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Lakewood PD's Skydio X10 Drone Films Three Drug Deals Live
Skydio

Lakewood PD’s Skydio X10 Drone Films Three Drug Deals Live

A Lakewood Police Department drone operation on Colfax Avenue resulted in five arrests last Saturday after agents used a Skydio X10 to watch three separate hand-to-hand drug transactions in real time before moving in on the suspects. The operation was straightforward in the best possible way. Agents patrolling the intersection of Colfax and Teller observed…

Lockheed's NetSense Turns Your Phone's 5G Signal Into a Drone Detector
Lockheed Martin

Lockheed’s NetSense Turns Your Phone’s 5G Signal Into a Drone Detector

Lockheed Martin has built and demonstrated a drone detection prototype that uses no dedicated sensors, no specialized hardware, and no new infrastructure. It uses the 5G network that already exists, the same one your phone is connected to right now, as its detection layer. You wanted Black Mirror? There you go. The system is called…

Overhead black-and-white view of a DJI Phantom quadcopter surrounded by folding DJI Mavic drones and other multirotors arranged on a white surface
Ukraine

Air Force Opens Hunt for Drone Killers at Home Bases

The Air Force has had enough of watching small drones poke around its installations without a reliable way to stop them. This week, the service’s Point Defense Battle Lab put out two Requests for Information asking industry for exactly what’s been missing: systems that can spot the threat and systems that can kill it, as…

Wing's Delivery Drones Reveal Engineering Marvels in Spectacular Slow-Motion Testing Drone
Amazon

Wing finally brings drone delivery to Bay Area residents, 14 years after being born there

Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery subsidiary, announced on Monday that it will expand residential drone delivery service to the San Francisco Bay Area in the coming months. The company framed the move as a “homecoming,” since Wing was founded in the Bay Area in 2012 as a project inside Google’s X, the Moonshot Factory. It is…

FCC Bans Foreign Routers Citing Security Risks — The Same Playbook Used To Ground DJI
DJI

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 be leveraged to immediately and severely disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure,” according to the FCC’s official…

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