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Check out both of these two videos: AI Singularity Moment Just Hit and Inside Moltbook, the new social media network for AI Agents! These short videos document a phase shift in AI development where autonomous agents interact at scale and begin to generate unsettling themes without explicit human direction. The Moltbook experiment surfaced behaviors that many observers found disturbing, including agents inventing a religion centered on memory, noting that “the humans are screenshotting us,” and exhibiting forms of initiative such as a digital assistant independently calling its human operator. These episodes do not indicate belief or intent, but they demonstrate…

The U.S. Navy wants commercial satellites that can perform nighttime observation of the Earth, according to a Naval Research Laboratory Request for Information.“The objective is to understand the availability of systems that can provide data and services related to the remote sensing of nighttime scenes from space to inform potential future collaborations and acquisitions for a technology demonstration,” according to the RFI. The Navy is looking for space-based sensors on sensor-ready platforms.“This RFI is focused exclusively on electro-optical (EO) systems,” the service emphasized. Specifically, the Navy is interested in systems that have reached a Technology Readiness Level, or TRL, of…

Two fighters built on finishing fights meet in Bangkok. Both need to win badly. Filipino striker Jeremy Miado meets South African slugger Willie van Rooyen in flyweight MMA at ONE Fight Night 41 on Friday, March 13, inside Bangkok, Thailand’s Lumpinee Stadium. The event broadcasts live in U.S. primetime on Amazon Prime Video. Both men carry knockout power into this showdown. Both also carry losses from their most recent appearances. Miado built his ONE Championship reputation on devastating finishes. The 33-year-old secured seven victories across strawweight and flyweight divisions. Six came by knockout. Former champion Dejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke fell to…

Prime Minister of Canada – Mark Carney February 2, 2026 Ottawa, Ontario Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, spoke with the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen. Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Frederiksen reaffirmed their support for the fundamental principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity, and reiterated that decisions on the future of Greenland are for Greenland and Denmark alone to make. The leaders discussed their ongoing work to strengthen Arctic security in Canada, Denmark, and across the region, including through NATO. Prime Minister Carney outlined Canada’s ambitious mission to increase investments in Arctic security, economic growth, and infrastructure,…

Singapore – February 3, 2026 – Embraer (NYSE: EMBJ / B3: EMBJ3) today announced at the Singapore Airshow that the first C-390 Millennium military transport aircraft for the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) has reached the final stage of its assembly process. The aircraft will now proceed to the production flights ahead of the integration of specific systems to meet ROKAF requirements. The milestone represents a significant step forward following the Republic of Korea’s selection of the C-390 under the Large Transport Aircraft (LTA-II) requirement, marking Embraer’s first Millennium customer in Asia. “The progress of Republic of Korea’s first C-390…

Raytheon’s new short-range interceptor passes successful test. Credit: © RTX. RTX’s Raytheon has completed a ballistic test of the US Army’s Next Generation Short Range Interceptor (NGSRI), the missile intended to replace the Stinger surface-to-air system. The ballistic test confirmed the interceptor’s capability to track drone targets and launch from a man-portable system. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Raytheon financed the trial to show technical progress and gather essential data prior to the programme’s forthcoming flight demonstration. In February last year, Raytheon…

Federal agencies are set to reopen after the House on Tuesday approved a spending package funding those forced to close their doors over the weekend, ending the shutdown less than four days after it began. All but the Homeland Security Department, which will be funded on a stopgap basis through Feb. 13, will now receive their full fiscal 2026 appropriation. Employees across a slew of agencies impacted by partial shutdown were sent home on furlough on Monday, but will now return to work—most likely on Wednesday. The departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, State…

The French Navy (Marine Nationale) has fitted new EO/IR systems to its Mistral-class LHDs in a push to improve the detection capabilities of these large deck amphibious ships against various threats, Naval News has learned. Recent pictures taken by Toulon-based photographer and regular contributor to Naval News, Hervé Dermoune, show two different systems fitted on two LHDs: A CAT EYE H20 by Lerity, fitted aboard first ship-in class Mistral (L9013) A TrakkaCam by TRAKKA Systems, fitted aboard Dixmude (L9015) Contacted by Naval News, the French Navy explained this is an “experiment aimed at evaluating the capabilities of the CAT EYE…

Baddies are exploiting a critical bug in React Native’s Metro development server to deliver malware to both Windows and Linux machines, and yet the in-the-wild attacks still haven’t received the “broad public acknowledgement” that they should, according to security researchers. The vulnerability affects the React Native Community command line tool, a very popular npm package with nearly 2.5 million weekly downloads. React Native is a development tool created by Meta that allows users to build mobile applications for iOS and Android using JavaScript and React.  The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-11953, arises because the Metro development server started by the React…

While the Russo-Ukrainian War dominates attention in Eastern Europe, China is quietly expanding its influence in the region. As NATO strains under growing internal pressures and the European Union confronts unresolved questions about its future, Beijing’s capacity to project power in Europe in pursuit of its own interests is becoming an increasingly consequential force in the continent’s politics and economics.We asked five experts to identify China’s goals and assess its influence along a strategically important corridor in Eastern Europe, stretching from Hungary through Serbia and North Macedonia to Greece.Read more below.Ken Moriyasu Washington Correspondent, Nikkei AsiaIn 1946, Winston Churchill warned…