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Months after the government officially ended the public health emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Big Tech is still monitoring posts mentioning COVID. Instagram’s messaging app Threads is blocking search results for key COVID-related terms, including “COVID,” “long COVID” and “vaccines.” Results for those searches will come up as blocked and direct users to the…
The gun rights battle is heating up in New Mexico. On Friday, Sept. 8, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared gun violence a public health emergency and issued a 30-day ban on carrying firearms in public or on state property. Grisham says the ban is necessary, as several young children have been killed in recent shootings. An…
The U.S. is waiving sanctions to allow the transfer of $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds as part of a prisoner exchange agreement. Under this deal, five American citizens who are currently detained in Iran would be released. There are currently conflicting statements coming from the U.S. and Iran on how the country will be…
United States officials issue warnings to Russia and North Korea as their leaders are set to meet. And the biggest antitrust trial in a quarter century is about to begin. These stories highlight the Morning Rundown for Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. US issues warning as Kim Jong Un arrives in Russia North Korea’s Kim Jong…
Abrams tanks aren’t even in Ukraine yet, and Russia is already giving the United States flak about the type of ammunition the tanks will shoot. During the week of Sept. 3, the U.S. said it would supply depleted uranium (DU) rounds to Ukraine’s Armed Forces. The U.K. already gave Ukraine DU rounds back in March.…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite technology has been used in the Russia-Ukraine War to help Ukraine with communications. However, an “interference” has created friction between Musk and Ukraine officials. According to excerpts obtained by CNN from an unreleased biography on Musk, Starlink satellites were off over Russian-controlled Crimea last year, preventing a Ukrainian drone…
On the same day Cuba announced the arrests of 17 people in an alleged human trafficking ring aimed at bolstering Russia’s military, the CIA renewed its push to turn some Russians into spies against their own government. The agency released a video titled “Why I made contact with the CIA – for myself” on social…
Every state attorney general in the country is asking Congress to investigate and pass new laws that address artificial intelligence’s ability to make child pornography. In a letter to congressional leaders, the attorneys general said AI is “creating a new frontier for abuse that makes such prosecution more difficult.” The letter detailed exactly how the…
It looks like Ukraine’s Armed Forces found a new source of explosives. The Ukrainians are literally mining Russian minefields, repurposing recovered TM-62 anti-tank mines, and giving them back to their former owners by dropping them from drones. This war is full of great examples of battlefield engineering, but this new strategy certainly tips the scales…
The war in Ukraine is showing, in vivid and deadly detail, drones are now a permanent fixture on the battlefield. The United States military wants swarms of drones at its disposal in the event of future conflicts. But operating swarms of drones in the wars of tomorrow means building that capacity today. The defense technology…
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