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An AWS datacenter campus, the kind of large stationary structure a drone can easily find.
Amazon

Drones Hit Amazon’s Datacenters. The Cloud Just Got a Lot More Fragile.

Three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East are offline. Two were directly struck by drones in the UAE. A third in Bahrain was damaged by a drone strike close enough to knock it out, as The Register reported. This is the first time in history that a military adversary has successfully attacked a…

Europe Picked Airbus to Build Its Next Military Drone. Here Is What That Means.
Airbus

Europe Picked Airbus to Build Its Next Military Drone. Here Is What That Means.

Europe has a drone problem. Not a shortage of them. A shortage of the right ones, built by Europeans, owned by Europeans, and answerable to European defense priorities rather than foreign supply chains. The M2UAS project is one piece of the answer, and Airbus just won the contract to build it. One Drone. Every Mission.…

Cincinnati Police Skydio Drone Program Costs Revealed
Skydio

Skydio Is Already Patrolling Santa Fe. Now the City Has to Decide If It Stays

A woman passed counterfeit bills at three businesses on Cerrillos Road. Instead of sending a patrol officer to drive the corridor looking for her, Santa Fe police clicked a mouse and put a Skydio X10 in the air, as Santa Fe New Mexican reported. Two minutes after launch, the drone was hovering above the intersection…

In Fairfax County, Skydio Arrives First. Every Time.
Skydio

In Fairfax County, Skydio Arrives First. Every Time.

Fairfax County, Virginia is not testing the waters on Drone as First Responder. The numbers from their first 100 missions make the case better than any press release could. Drones arrived on scene first in 71 of those 100 calls. Average response time: 83 seconds. In a county that sits inside the most restricted airspace…

A Broadcast Drone Just Ate a Tree at LIV Golf Hong Kong
DJI

A Broadcast Drone Just Ate a Tree at LIV Golf Hong Kong

Nobody was hurt. The drone did not survive. And somewhere out there, the pilot is having a very bad Thursday. During the first round of LIV Golf Hong Kong 2026 at The Hong Kong Golf Club, a broadcast drone lost its argument with a tree and fell to the ground mid-telecast, as reported by Awful…

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