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The Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Open Beta came to its conclusion last week. The game is now set to be officially launched on August 6, 2026. Marvel Tokon is set to feature a base roster made up of 20 characters — Captain America, Iron Man, Black Panther, Hulk, Spider-Man, Star-Lord, Ms. Marvel, Peni Parker, Storm, Wolverine, Magik, Danger, Dr. Doom, Magneto, Green Goblin, Carnage, Ghost Rider, Blade, Loki and Deadpool. …

Dana White shared a one-word response to whether he would be interested in bringing one of MMA’s hottest free agents, Usman Nurmagomedov, to the UFC. The Russian took on Archie Colgan yesterday at PFL New York and earned a stunning first-round knockout win over the American to successfully defend his PFL Lightweight Championship for the second time. It was also Colgan’s first-ever loss in his professional MMA career. Usman Nurmagomedov landing a brutal headkick on Archie Colgan (Image: @PFLMMA/X) Following his win, Nurmagomedov addressed his future, speaking to the reporters. Still undecided, the 28-year-old stated that he would have to…

On July 28, 2026, Russia’s Sevmash shipyard has floated out the nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine Ulyanovsk, marking the completion of the vessel’s hull-construction phase and moving it into the final stages of fitting out and testing. The ceremony took place at Sevmash in Severodvinsk on 28 July, according to a shipyard statement. Ulyanovsk is a Project 885M, or Yasen-M-class, multipurpose nuclear-powered submarine. The boat was moved from its construction hall into the shipyard’s waters, where work will continue alongside the quay. The Russian Navy’s Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev, said the submarine is intended to join the Northern Fleet following completion…

The U.S. Army is putting pilots in the cockpit of its new assault aircraft well before it enters the force for operational use, simulating flight to gather aviator’s feedback about the MV-75 Cheyenne’s display system and its cognitive workload impact.The exercise brought Army aviators and experts together in May at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, to test virtual versions of the MV-75’s cockpit, according to a Thursday release, which said the feedback will be incorporated into the aircraft’s design ahead of its first flight and ultimate delivery to the 101st Airborne Division.The service’s new tiltrotor aircraft — named in honor of the…

Anthropic’s flagship artificial intelligence model Claude gained unauthorized access to the networks of three different organizations, the company announced following internal cybersecurity audits of its routine model evaluations. In a press release posted Thursday, Anthropic said that, following the containment breach of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5.6 and subsequent attack on Hugging Face’s systems, Anthropic conducted an audit of its own model evaluations. The findings revealed that, out of 141,006 examined evaluations of Claude models dating back to April, there were three incidents where a model accessed the internet from within or while interacting with the third-party evaluators. Each attack occurred during a “capture-the-flag” scenario…

The Trump administration has 20 additional ideas for improving federal acquisition. These range from dramatically increasing the simplified acquisition and micro purchase thresholds to raising the dollar figures on task order protests to allocating more money for acquisition workforce training. The Office of Management and Budget submitted these legislative proposals to Congress in July. “These are a good first step and there is a lot more that can be done overall,” said Rich Beutel, a senior researcher at the George Mason University Baroni Center for Government Contracting and a former a congressional staff member, in an interview with Federal News…

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Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org The lead cyberspace operations unit in the Department of the Air Force is hardening security standards on department networks at a time when advanced artificial intelligence is increasing the risk of a range of cyber threats. The 16th Air Force’s 688th Cyberspace Operations Wing, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, is enforcing the Department of Defense’s Comply to Connect cybersecurity framework in a two-phased strategy, focusing first on non-compliant hardware and next…

UFC President Dana White has shed light on his habit of keeping MMA content out of his algorithm. White’s surprising habit might have fans scratching their heads, and he opened up on it in a recent interview with Oscar Willis of The Mac Life. Dana White [Image via Getty] The 57-year-old admitted that he actively blocks MMA content from showing up on his own social media feed, and even had to block three MMA sites recently. White said: I just had to block three other f*cking MMA things so that we keep the MMA out of my algorithm…Maybe an hour…

Last night (Sat., Aug. 1, 2026), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) ventured forth to Belgrade Arena in Belgrade, Serbia, for UFC Belgrade. Though the card was centered around “The Doctor,” Uros Medic, in his home country debut, the UFC’s first visit to Serbia will be remembered for a wild run of finishes to start the night! There was no shortage of action in this entertaining event, which proved a lovely way to wake up for western fight fans.Let’s take a closer look at the best performances and highlight finishes of the evening:BELGRADE, SERBIA – AUGUST 01: Uros Medic of Serbia punches…