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Real-time satellite intelligence making Ukraine’s drone strikes deadlier than ever
Wall Street Journal: Commercial satellite imagery, sent straight to soldiers’ phones, is speeding up the kill chain and…
June 4, 2026
He blew whistle on DOGE. Then his brakes were cut
Wired: A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted…
June 4, 2026
Kirkland & Ellis and Palantir to build AI tool to assist private equity firms
Financial Times: Kirkland & Ellis has agreed a multiyear deal with Palantir to develop AI technology to help…
June 4, 2026
US National Security Agency using Anthropic’s Mythos for cyber attacks
Financial Times: It remains unclear whether Anthropic’s engineers are assisting the NSA in active operations. However, one person…
June 4, 2026
Taiwan beefs up anti-ship missile arsenal to counter threat of Chinese invasion
Reuters: Taiwan will sharply increase its arsenal of powerful anti-ship missiles to more than 1,800 by early 2029,…
June 4, 2026
EU’s tech independence push disappoints Brussels and irks Americans
Politico Europe: Even as Virkkunen was presenting the plan Wednesday, EU ambassadors meeting across the road were signing…
June 4, 2026
Hezbollah rejects renewed ceasefire agreed by Israel and Lebanon. Trump tells aides he won’t resume all-out war unless U.S. troops are killed—AND MORE
BBC: In a strongly-worded statement, the Iran-backed group’s leader Naim Qassem said negotiations had been “futile” and “humiliating”…
June 4, 2026
Trump says he will nominate Todd Blanche to be attorney general
CNN: When Trump makes the nomination official, it will end Blanche’s two months serving in the role in…
June 4, 2026
Trump’s pick of Bill Pulte as spy chief threatens foreign surveillance bill
Financial Times: Thom Tillis, a Republican senator from North Carolina, lambasted Pulte in a CNBC interview for having…
June 3, 2026
British schoolboy sanctioned by Russia for exposing crypto laundering
Times: Alexander Browder, 17, now banned from entering the country along with four other British nationals, is thought…
June 3, 2026
Senior official from Germany’s AfD meets top Kremlin associates
Financial Times: Markus Frohnmaier, the AfD’s foreign policy spokesman, met Alexey Miller, chief executive of Russia’s energy giant…
June 3, 2026
Meltdown inside ‘60 Minutes’
Wall Street Journal: “There is no question that the CBS News brand is severely damaged right now,” said…
June 3, 2026
Trump ‘willing to use any leverage,’ still room for optimism: Canada-U.S. expert
CTV: “The talks don’t have Canada on the sidelines now, and so that was an achievement,” he said.…
June 3, 2026
Meet Trump official shaping U.S. policy on Europe
Parliament Magazine: Peter Rough, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington D.C.,…
June 3, 2026
The Kennedy who says she left White House over concerns about CIA spending
Wall Street Journal: Some of that intelligence activity was “brilliant, courageous, and everything an American would be proud…
June 3, 2026
‘Teachers are going to hate it’: How social media apps hooked teens at school
New York Times: Internal documents show how tech giants grabbed children’s attention throughout the day, a strategy that…
June 3, 2026
Elon Musk’s SpaceX pitches investors $1.8tn valuation in historic IPO
Financial Times: The company plans to sell 555.6mn shares at $135 apiece, raising $75bn, according to an amended…
June 3, 2026
Companies using Reddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI search
404 Media: Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and…
June 3, 2026
Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers
The Guardian: Order strips job protections from workers earning up to about $200,000 a year and deemed to…
June 3, 2026
Europe’s tightrope walk on tech sovereignty
Financial Times: Yet few initiatives require such a delicate balancing act as the push to assert European “tech…
June 3, 2026