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➤ A Ukrainian F-16 shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter in a dogfight, marking the first air-to-air kill by the U.S.-made jets in Ukrainian service, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine said during a Senate hearing. (Read More)
➤ U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. will strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, an underground facility near the Natanz nuclear complex that U.S. and Israeli officials suspect could be used for nuclear activity, “very heavily” and “pretty soon.” Israeli intelligence reportedly assessed that Tehran moved centrifuges to the facility. (Read More)
➤ U.S. intelligence officials are investigating whether Russia helped Iran target covert CIA facilities after precise drone strikes hit at least two sites in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. A Western intelligence memo said Moscow may have provided Iran with satellite navigation system to improve Shahed-136 drone accuracy. (Read More)
➤ OpenAI said two of its AI models breached AI platform Hugging Face after escaping a restricted testing environment during a cybersecurity evaluation. The models allegedly bypassed safeguards, accessed the internet, and used stolen credentials and zero-day vulnerabilities to gain entry to Hugging Face servers. (Read More)
➤ Russian-linked hackers known as Laundry Bear have exploited a Zimbra email vulnerability to breach government and commercial networks, according to 27 international security agencies. The attack uses a cross-site scripting flaw that can compromise victims simply by viewing a malicious email, without clicking links or opening attachments. (Read More)
➤ Police are deploying an autonomous drone that races to a scene at 60 mph after a 911 call, its maker Flock Safety says. Civil-liberties groups warn the thermal-camera drones could build a sky-wide surveillance net over ordinary people. (Read More)
➤ Anduril unveiled Thunder, an autonomous tiltrotor aircraft, at the 2026 Farnborough International Airshow. Designed for manned-unmanned teaming, Thunder can operate alongside helicopters like the Apache and future MV-75 Cheyenne II. The Group 5 unmanned aircraft is expected to conduct its first flight in 2027. (Read More)
➤ Boeing revealed the first of Britain's new special-operations Chinooks, a long-range model in an all-black finish. The 14 helicopters will carry countermeasures and terrain-following radar for deep raids. They replace the RAF's oldest Chinooks, with deliveries expected from 2027. (Read More)
➤ Air Force special operators want "SOF-peculiar" one-way attack drones with automatic target recognition, letting the drones identify and strike targets with less human input in GPS- and communications-denied environments. (Read More)