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The nearly party line vote moves the unusually contentious measure forward after it earlier stalled in both chambers of Congress.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed its fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday, approving a $1.15 trillion defense policy bill by 216-212 and sending the measure into a Senate process that remains unresolved [federalnewsnetwork.com#1][thehill.com#2][airandspaceforces.com#1][theguardian.com#1][militarytimes.com#1][breakingdefense.com#1][aaj.tv#1][pbs.org#1]. The bill incor
The U.S. House passed a $1.15 trillion defense bill Wednesday in a 216-212 vote.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed its fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday, authorizing a record $1.15 trillion for the military in a 216-212 vote that largely followed party lines [aaj.tv#1][militarytimes.com#1][theglobeandmail.com#1][thehindu.com#1]. The bill now goes to the Senate, where reports said it faces further debate or uncertainty before any final version c
The U.S. House of Representatives passed two measures tied to President Trump’s military and domestic agenda: a fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act authorizing $1.15 trillion in military spending, which passed 216-212, and a Republican budget resolution for $95 billion in additional funding, which passed 216-214 [alarabiya.net#1][middleeasteye.net#1][nytimes.com#1][theguardian.com#1][aa
The U.S. House of Representatives passed its fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday in a 216-212 vote, authorizing a record $1.15 trillion for the military [npr.org#1][aaj.tv#1][militarytimes.com#1][thehill.com#1][theguardian.com#1][geo.tv#1]. Six Democrats supported the measure and seven Republicans opposed it. The bill now goes to the Senate, where its path is uncertain [npr
Lockheed Martin Ventures plans to invest $100 million in European defense companies and open its first office in London after doubling its global investment pool from $400 million to $1 billion, Chris Moran, vice president and general manager of the venture arm, told Breaking Defense at the Farnborough air show [breakingdefense.com#1]. Moran said the fund wants more direct exposure to European dea
The U.S. House of Representatives Are Out of Control. This regime and their #GOP Congressmen are going to not only wreck Democracy, they are going to bankrupt America as well. Is America going to be #Trump 's 7th #bankruptcy ? #IRAN #WAR #Quagmire #idiots www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... The bipartisan consensus on defense collapsed as Republicans quashed objections from Democrats, who say C
When us liberal old farts say VOTE these DEMS out we mean it. See posts on Bluesky saying how deadly MAGA is, but they don't know the wolves dressed in sheep's clothing who passed the Defense Dept. Budget $1.75 Billion are Centrist Democrats! Henry Cuellar TX www.joemygod.com/2026/07/six-... Politico reports: The House narrowly passed its marquee $1.15 trillion defense policy bill largely along pa
Read section 219. …Israel in the NDAA The house passed it. legis1.com/news/house-d... House passes H.R. 8800 National Defense Authorization Act with 213-207 vote largely along party lines. Republicans secure overwhelming support for 2027...
South Carolina has been preliminarily tapped to hold the first Democratic presidential primary of 2028, as a key panel of party leaders picked the Palmetto State over Nevada on Friday after a contentious, racially fraught debate. Why it matters: It's a coup for Black leaders who argued the party's most loyal voters — represented by South Carolina's large Black population — deserved to have the fir
“Republicans in the House passed a $1.15 trillion defense spending policy bill to give Donald Trump more money to burn in a failed, illegal war with Iran that has already cost at least $38 billion.” open.substack.com/pub/thelefth... Republicans in the House passed a $1.15 trillion defense spending policy bill to give Donald Trump more money to burn in a failed, illegal war with Iran that has alrea
🚨 The House has passed their $1.15 TRILLION bill (216-212) to merge our military technology and supply chains with genocidal Israel. AND it has the SAVE Act attached to it! Headed to the Senate now! ☎️ SIX Dems voted in favor! 🤬 Cuellar (TX) Davis (NC) Golden (ME) Gonzalez (TX) Gray (CA Perez (WA) Tell your representatives in Congress to vote NO on the $1.15 trillion military spending bill and r
# DefesoEleitoral "A legislação eleitoral existe para impedir o abuso da máquina pública, não para restringir o acesso da sociedade às informações que documentam a atuação do Estado e servem de subsídio para diversas atividades relevantes de interesse público. É preciso que a Justiça Eleitoral, a Administração Pública e os demais órgãos de controle definam, com precisão, as situações em que a divu
Defense companies and air forces are expanding work on uncrewed aircraft designed to fly alongside crewed fighters, including the U.S. Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program and Anduril's Thunder rotor uncrewed aerial system [zona-militar.com#1]. Under the concept described in the programs, autonomous or semi-autonomous aircraft would fly with a main crewed aircraft to provide informati
US House Votes to Extend Cyber Sharing Law for 10 Years Chris Liotta reports: Lawmakers voted to extend a key cyberthreat sharing law for another decade, attaching the long-stalled reauthorization to Washington’s annual defense policy bill. The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved its $1.15 trillion fiscal year 2027 national defense authorization act in a 216-212 vote Wednesday, includi
Three uncrewed-systems companies announced defense agreements across the United States, Canada and Europe, including AeroVironment contracts with global customers, Airbus’s first Canadian Flexrotor purchase order, and a UForce-ReconCraft memorandum aimed at U.S. production of Magura maritime drones [zona-militar.com#1][asiapacificdefencereporter.com#1][defence-industry.eu#1]. AeroVironment said on
Apple TV released the first official teaser for its series adaptation of William Gibson’s 1984 cyberpunk novel "Neuromancer" during San Diego Comic-Con and set the premiere for Jan. 22, 2027 [engadget.com#1][arstechnica.com#1][mashable.com#1][stadt-bremerhaven.de#1][macerkopf.de#1][itc.ua#1]. The 10-episode series will debut with two episodes, followed by one episode each Friday through March 19,
The House passed the NDAA's obscene spending. Attached to it, the completely unrelated Save America Act (total lie in that title), & an eminent domain amendment that will allow federal takeover CA state lands. And 6 Democrats made it happen. WTF. Hope it stops in the Senate. keyt.com/news/santa-b... WASHINGTON D.C. (KEYT) – Last night, the House of Representatives debated the nation's annual defen
Apple ended Monday as the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, overtaking Nvidia after Apple shares rose about 1% and Nvidia fell nearly 5% in New York trading. Sources put Apple’s closing market value at about $4.93 trillion to $4.95 trillion and Nvidia’s at about $4.76 trillion to $4.83 trillion, depending on the pricing snapshot [businessinsider.com#1][cnbc.com#1][gulfnews.com#1][vnex
Apple’s market value briefly topped $5 trillion during U.S. trading on Tuesday, July 28, making it the second company after Nvidia to reach that level [theguardian.com#1][gmanetwork.com#1][folha.com.br#1][cna.com.tw#1]. Shares in the iPhone maker hit an intraday high of $342.89, valuing the company at about $5.036 trillion to $5.04 trillion, before easing back below the threshold [adaderana.lk#1][
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Apple’s market capitalization briefly surpassed $5 trillion in Tuesday trading, making the iPhone maker the second publicly traded company to reach that level after Nvidia [macrumors.com#1][9to5mac.com#1][theguardian.com#1][myjoyonline.com#1][adaderana.lk#1][gmanetwork.com#1][globo.com#1][folha.com.br#1][cnbc.com#1]. Apple shares hit an intraday high of $342.89, putting its market value at about $
While Democrats across the country are pulling their hair out over Michigan's brutal Democratic Senate primary , a key House race in the state is also quietly giving party leaders heartburn. Why it matters: Infighting between establishment Democrats could create an opening for a progressive who many Democratic strategists and lawmakers are skeptical can win the seat in November. Moderate Democrats
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arXiv:2607.25502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent training-time defenses against neural backdoors isolate a benign subset from poisoned training data, to learn a backdoor-free model from it. In this paper, we formulate this defense strategy as a coreset selection problem, giving rise to so-called "Anti-Backdoor Coreset Selection." Since poisonous samples have (a) lower prediction uncertaint
Phoronix reported that FreeBSD revised the wording of a licensing milestone after earlier attention to FreeBSD 16 retiring the last GPL code from the base system: the FreeBSD Wiki changed from a “Mission accomplished!” framing to clarify that the base user-space is GPL-free, while some GPL code remains in the kernel [phoronix.com#1]. The remaining kernel material includes GPL code tied to Qualcomm
The July full moon, known as the Buck Moon, peaked on Wednesday, July 29, with sources giving times from 10:30 a.m. to 10:37 a.m. EDT and 15:36 BST [livescience.com#1][bbc.co.uk#1][mashable.com#1][astronomy.com#1]. In the UK, the exact maximum occurred while the Moon was below the horizon, but BBC Weather said it would still appear full to the naked eye overnight [bbc.co.uk#1]. North American view
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Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Climate Scientist and Professor at the Universities of Louvain and Liège in Belgium. Europe's latest heatwave is further evidence of a structural transformation of the continent's climate, warns Professor van Ypersele. His central argument rejects both fatalism and complacency. While insisting that humanity has not yet reached "the point
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A new study by researchers at Purdue University and the University of Colorado, Boulder says the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago may have created a fine dust blanket that overheated Earth after the asteroid struck what is now Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula [sci.news#1][zmescience.com#1][derstandard.at#1]. The researchers argue that the dust, produced after vaporized rock cooled in the atmosphere
An international research team used airborne laser scanning to map dense rainforest in southwestern Amazonia and documented 432 ancient earthworks, including 396 not previously recorded, across about 4,500 square kilometers in Brazil [livescience.com#1][zmescience.com#1][scimex.org#1][sozcu.com.tr#1][milliyet.com.tr#1]. The study, published July 29 in Nature, links the structures to the Aquiry civ
India has commissioned about 8,000 tonnes of green hydrogen capacity, while another source puts operational capacity at less than 10,000 tonnes per year. The national target is 5 million tonnes annually by 2030 [energynews.pro#1][bioenergytimes.com#1]. The National Green Hydrogen Mission aims to decarbonise oil refining, fertilisers and steel, but industry experts cited by Bioenergy Times said the
A U.S. Air Force official said the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion program is not tied specifically to Boeing’s F-47 fighter and is aimed at preserving U.S. propulsion superiority, Defense Daily reported from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s industry days in Dayton, Ohio [defensedaily.com#1]. TWZ reported that an NGAP prototype engine could be ready for aircraft integration in 2030
U.S. commercial crude inventories, excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, fell by 7.2 million barrels to 404.5 million barrels in the week ended July 24, the Energy Information Administration said Wednesday. It was the lowest level since 2018 [energynow.com#1][boereport.com#1][thenationalnews.com#1][aawsat.com#1][cumhuriyet.com.tr#1][haber7.com#1]. Analysts in a Reuters poll had expected a 1.3
Qualcomm said it will raise prices from Sept. 1 after higher memory and supply-chain costs pressured its fiscal third-quarter results and near-term profit outlook [cnbc.com#1][digitimes.com#1][macdailynews.com#1][capital.gr#1][cna.com.tw#1]. The chipmaker reported lower profit and revenue for the quarter. Net income fell 25% from a year earlier to $2 billion, and revenue fell 4% to about $9.94 bil
Microsoft reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of about $90 billion for the period ended June 30, up 18% from a year earlier and above analyst expectations of $87.62 billion to $87.7 billion [abcnews.com#1][fortune.com#1][freepressjournal.in#1][geekwire.com#1]. Net income rose 31% to about $35.8 billion, while adjusted earnings per share of $4.74 exceeded the $4.24 consensus estimate cited by LS
Microsoft reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of about $90 billion and net income of roughly $35.8 billion for the quarter ended June 30, with full-year revenue of $331.8 billion and full-year net income of $133.7 billion [techcrunch.com#1][techcrunch.com#2][freepressjournal.in#1][itavisen.no#1]. Azure revenue grew 43% in the quarter, above the 39.98% analyst consensus cited by Visible Alpha, a
Starbucks raised its full-year outlook after reporting better-than-expected fiscal third-quarter results, sending its shares higher in after-hours trading Wednesday [abcnews.com#1][cnbc.com#2]. The Seattle-based coffee chain said global same-store sales rose 7.9% in the April-June period, above the 5.7% increase expected by analysts polled by FactSet, while U.S. same-store sales also rose 7.9% [ab
In H1 2026, # ESETresearch analyzed 900,000 agentic AI skills – add-ons providing instructions that teach agents how to perform specific tasks – and found 25,000 suspicious ones and more than 3,000 outright malicious. Many of the malicious AI skills were designed to perform red-teaming actions, such as attacking Active Directory, enumerating data, exfiltrating credentials, or gaining highly privil
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Voters across Greater Manchester went to the polls Thursday to choose a new mayor after Andy Burnham left city hall for Downing Street, with more than 2 million people eligible to vote in what several accounts described as the biggest by-election in British history [theguardian.com#1][abcnews.com#1][irishnews.com#1][channel4.com#1]. Polling stations were open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., and vote count
Senators also aired concerns about Trump’s obsessive focus on the GOP elections bill known as the SAVE America Act. The House blueprint contemplates including parts of that bill in the party-line package www.politico.com/news/2026/07... Under the Trump administration plan, a subsequent bill could boost military funding to $1.5 trillion and raise the debt limit.
Amazon Threat Intelligence assessed with medium confidence that a North Korea-linked group known as Sapphire Sleet carried out a series of npm package compromises affecting typo-crypto, debug, chalk and axios between March 2025 and March 2026 [thehackernews.com#1][cyberscoop.com#1][cybersecuritynews.com#1][defenseone.com#1]. Amazon said the campaigns used social engineering to target trusted maint
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Exceptionally low Danube levels caused by severe drought forced Romania’s state-controlled Nuclearelectrica to put Cernavodă Unit 1 into safe shutdown on Tuesday and start a controlled shutdown of Unit 2 by Thursday morning, leaving the country’s only nuclear plant temporarily offline [digi24.ro#1][stirileprotv.ro#1][radiomoldova.md#1][ceenergynews.com#1]. Nuclearelectrica said the measures follow
Agents excel at the mechanical labor of rebasing. "We can't afford a fork, so we must upstream", the strongest argument for upstreaming, is losing force. Companies should be happier staying downstream. I suspect the exact opposite: the same tools pushed "write an RFC + patch" to near zero, so more floods toward upstream. The reason is cost visibility. Downstream costs are borne by you. Upstream co
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The Federal Reserve voted to hold its key interest rate steady, sending stocks tumbling, as US claimed to hit ‘dozens’ of Iranian targets. Plus the origins of Coca-Cola may have been found … in Italy Good morning. US government borrowing costs have hit their highest level since 2007 after the Federal Reserve voted to hold its key interest rate steady, feeding fears that the central bank may not mo