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DOJ charges five men over a drone-and-sniper plot at the White House UFC Freedom 250 event. Court filings show real guns but barely-built drones.
A shoplifting run at a Buena Park Kohl’s ended with two people in custody on June 9, and the deciding factor never touched the ground. When one suspect bolted on foot and folded himself into a stranger’s backyard shed, he figured the dark and the fences would hide him. A police drone overhead, reading his…
The New York Times Magazine published a feature on June 5 about the technology rewiring American agriculture, and the one machine actually flying over these fields barely made the cut. Robotic milkers, laser weeders, and driverless tractors each got a farmer, a photo essay, and a few hundred words. Spray drones got a single clause:…
U.S. Africa Command ran its CURTAIN CALL drone-swarm defense through a second field test at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California from April 27 to May 1, 2026, and this round added the threat the program was built to stop: a coordinated attack by several drones at once, not a single aircraft. What the command…
Zipline plans 12 new Nigeria drone hubs by 2028 to reach 100 million people, but its paused Kaduna operation shows the political risk underneath.
Palm Desert is the latest Coachella Valley community where police drones are moving from “something other cities do” to “something coming here,” and a local NBC Palm Springs commentary framed the arrival with the question every city eventually has to answer: smart safety tool, or one more eye in the sky? That’s the right question,…
HYFIX Spatial Intelligence is rolling out its H1P Positioning, Navigation, and Open-Compute Module for small unmanned systems, with samples and evaluation kits available immediately. The Santa Clara, California company is showcasing the H1P at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2026 in Detroit this week, booth 34005. It’s the first product built on the company’s H1 Autonomous Systems Chip,…
The U.S. Army has a new answer to the drone threat, and it involves sending a drone to take care of it. Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division recently trained with the Bumblebee V1 counter-drone system at Fort Drum, New York, in a session organized by Joint Interagency Task Force 401, the Department of War’s…
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