Jeremy Hsu    Tanks with defensive tech for shooting down drones are still proving vulnerable.

Jeremy Hsu    Ukraine’s battlefield surge of robots now features airdrops and beach assaults.

Dell Cameron, wired.com    More than one-eighth of apps analyzed contained foreign code.

Beth Mole    Branches received exceptions to Hegseth’s policy that made the shot optional.

Jeremy Hsu    The proposed Pentagon drone investment rivals Ukraine’s entire military budget.

Benj Edwards    Tech giant denies building secret AI data center, says focus is subsea infrastructure.

Kyle Orland    AI is one thing that, as a commander, it’s been very, very interesting for me.

Eric Berger    The key discriminator is, does this make a difference in the moment it’s needed?

Stephen Clark    This is the first time an IRBM, once restricted by a Cold War arms treaty, has been used in combat.

Stephen Clark    All that’s left of the Russian missile silo is a big hole in the ground.

Benj Edwards    Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire.

Benj Edwards    Despite new Pentagon collab, OpenAI won’t allow customers to develop or use weapons with its tools.

Jacob Judah, Chris Cook, Mehul Srivastava, Max Harlow, and Felicia Schwartz, FT    Spelling error misdirected sensitive Pentagon messages to company running Mali’s TLD.

Benj Edwards    We’ve never run that experiment, says original source, who misspoke.

Benj Edwards    12 best practices for using AI and autonomous systems emphasize human accountability.

John Timmer    Once the object was over the ocean, US jets moved in.

Matt Burgess, wired.com    Consumer drones are having a huge impact on the country’s defense against Russia.

Beth Mole    More than a dozen states are running low on doctors who work in intensive care units.

Ars Staff    The contract should see the military buy more than 100,000 headsets.

John Timmer    The how is coming together even as the why remains a bit vague.