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The records describe a force-generation mechanism for several General Staff components, including the GRU, Main Operational Directorate, and 8th Directorate, which is associated with protected communications, cryptography, and information security.

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The reporting also linked a 2024 Department No. 4 graduate, Aleksei Kondrashov, to Military Unit 74455, widely known as Sandworm.

That unit has been associated with destructive cyber activity against Ukraine and other targets, including the 2017 NotPetya attack.

The reports do not establish that every listed graduate participated in a named operation; assignments should therefore be described as reported unit placements, not proof of individual operational involvement...

Video obtained by the California Post shows the moment federal agents began seizing electronic devices belonging to former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) at San Francisco International Airport.

As the Trump administration continues to chase away actual talent in order to staff federal agencies with loyalists and/or people who don’t know any better, it has had to lower hiring standards to keep the federal cupboards stocked. ICE went on a hiring surge following the imposition of impossible arrest quotas and a few billion […]

This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come? On the Sperm Racing World Cup. “The cells then race through courses less than a half-centimeter long that are etched into microfluidic silicon chips.”

It would be wonderful is some future AI came up with a cure for cancer. Less so if the AI decides who gets the cure.

At the end of today’s Morning Memo, I tucked in a remembrance of Wendell Berry, who has died at 92....

Kind of love the all-lowercase “hello” as John Ternus’s first X post. Maybe we’re in for a new, more informal style. Or maybe I’m reading too much into it. Still holding out hope for a CEO personal blog one day, to offset all the opaque corporate-y communication.

One way to read the OpenAI vs. Anthropic rivalry — and Claude Code’s success — is that while OpenAI was off in the weeds playing with Sora, Anthropic was training Mythos. OpenAI spent 2026 catching up. Reading about Astra rumors, I expect OpenAI to have a significant advantage through the fall. 🤖

Artificial Intelligence takes center stage in a few of the apps enjoying this week’s spotlight — and not the kind of AI that’s going to have you rolling your eyes or organizing a protest march against the nearest data center.…

“The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is proposing permanent flight restrictions around President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, while still allowing aircraft arriving or departing from the nearby airport now bearing his name to traverse the airspace,” Bloomberg reports.

Just published: The Forsaken Founder: Gouverneur Morris, the Unsung Patriot Who Wrote the Constitution, Stood Up to Slavery, and Survived the Reign of Terror by Scott S. Greenberger. The little-known story of Gouverneur Morris, the brilliant yet overlooked Founding Father whose visionary ideas from writing key components of the U.S. Constitution to helping create America’s […]

“Speaker Mike Johnson told a closed-door meeting of senior House Republicans on Monday night that he met with GOP megadonor Elon Musk in Austin last week, as House GOP leaders hope he’ll bolster their campaign efforts in key battlegrounds,” Politico reports.

The Chicago Cubs have maintained an awfully low profile for a team that 1) wins often, and by a lot of runs, 2) homers more than anyone, and 3) has an increasingly sure-thing MVP patrolling center now that Shohei Ohtani is slumping through his ouchy season. The Cubs hit nine...

Every driver in the Hudson Valley should care that school is about to start up. This will likely impact your commutes in the region. Continue reading…

On Reddit: What’s a small quality-of-life upgrade at home that you now refuse to live without?

My response: This cushioned lap desk. I bring my laptop into our sunroom, sit on the daybed cross-legged and read and type in comfort. I’m using it with my MacBook right now!

The original post has been removed by the subreddit’s overzealous moderators (an example of why I rarely post to Reddit anymore)), but you can still read the comments.

Shadow IT used to be a SaaS problem. Someone on the marketing team signed up for a tool, connected it

The post Vibe-coded apps are the new shadow IT appeared first on The New Stack.

Meta has formally launched Muse Code out of beta, less than a month after first debuting the coding agent. Alongside

The post Meta’s Claude Code rival exits beta with three new subscription tiers — and it’s pushing hard on price appeared first on The New Stack.

Every application has always needed a place to keep its state. That is not new. What is new is who

The post When agents build, deploy, and maintain, persistence becomes the hard problem appeared first on The New Stack.

It did not take a lot of special insight to suspect that recently installed CBS News boss, Bari Weiss, played some role in the production of a story the outlet ran on Monday, headlined "Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's deleted tweets on Sept. 11 attacks invite scrutiny of ...

Markwayne Mullin continued to blame President Biden for Trump administration issues so he could lie about commercial driver's licenses (non-domiciled CDL's) being given to unqualified and non-English speaking migrants. Armed with innuendo and no proof, Sean Duffy and Mulli...