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China Tests ‘Scan-And-Fly’ Drone Clearance In Shanghai And Sichuan As Beijing Stays Locked Down
China is rolling out a WeChat fast-track for low-risk drone flights in Shanghai and Sichuan, the same week reporting confirmed its capital remains under a near-total flight ban. The split tells you everything about how Beijing now governs the technology…
FAA World Cup Drone TFRs Now Cover Boise, Louisville, And Utah, Hundreds Of Miles From Any Match
The FAA has switched on more than 100 drone-only Temporary Flight Restrictions for FIFA World Cup 2026 team hotels and training camps, and a large share of them sit in cities that are not hosting a single match. Boise, Idaho.…
Colombia Arms DJI Matrice 300 Drones With Grenades
Colombia just acquired 3,744 grenades built to fall from drones, and the aircraft doing the dropping are off-the-shelf DJI Matrice 300 RTK quadcopters. The grenades are homemade by the state arms maker Indumil, and they’re already in service with the…
Georgia Bets $550K on Drones to Stop School Shooters
Five Georgia high schools will soon keep drones waiting on charging pads, ready to fly at an attacker before police can reach the building. The state set aside $550,000 to test the idea this fall. The drones are piloted by…
Flock Safety Pushes Alpha Camera As The Sensor Arms Race In Police Drones Heats Up
Flock Safety is putting its camera front and center in a new round of marketing for the Alpha, the company’s American-made Drone as First Responder aircraft, with a slickly produced clip that frames the payload as carrying more sensors than…
Motorola Solutions Buys D-Fend For $1.5 Billion, Turning Counter-Drone Takeover Tech Into A Public Safety Product
Motorola Solutions agreed on Monday to buy Israeli counter-drone company D-Fend Solutions for $1.5 billion, putting radio-frequency drone-takeover technology directly into the hands of the same company whose 911 command-center software already runs in more than 60 percent of North…
Munich Airport Shut Down By Drones, Again
Munich Airport went dark again on Saturday morning. Shortly after 9 a.m. local time, two pilots reported a possible drone near the airfield, and German air traffic control shut the runways down cold. Flights resumed about an hour later, but…
AI Drones Give 5-Week Warning on Vibrio Outbreaks
Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde published findings in Water Research on May 28, 2026 showing that AI models, trained on environmental and microbiome data, can predict the appearance of Vibrio vulnificus in Baltic Sea coastal…
Minneapolis Studies DFR Pilot in North Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Police Department presented an exploratory proposal to the city council’s Public Health, Safety and Equity Committee in May 2026 to launch a Drones as First Responders pilot program. The pilot would deploy two drones, marked as police vehicles…
Palm Desert Eyes Police DJI Drones Amid Privacy Questions
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…
Palm Beach Fire Rescue Adds Drones for Hurricane Season
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue announced this week that it has stood up a dedicated drone fleet for disaster response, with hurricane season starting June 1, 2026. The agency is flying the Skydio X10, the American-made autonomous platform that has…
FAA Law Makes That Viral “Claude Squirrel-Hunting Drone” Illegal Three Times Over
A post claiming to show an AI-controlled drone armed with a CO2 BB gun that autonomously shoots squirrels has pulled in more than 590,000 views on X this week, and almost every law it touches points the same direction: this…