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Twenty-five years after the deadliest attack on U.S. soil, Americans paused on Friday to commemorate the nearly 3,000 people killed when hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania — and to wrestle with the consequences of September 11 that reverberate to this day.In New York, family members of the victims, many carrying pictures of their loved ones, joined Vice President JD Vance and four former U.S. presidents at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan. The ceremony began, as always, at 8:46 a.m. Eastern Standard Time with a moment of silence to remember the…

A federal judge in Massachusetts issued a decision Friday halting federal agencies from asking job applicants about their favorite Trump administration initiative, concluding the essay question likely violated jobseekers’ First Amendment rights.The case dates back to the Office of Personnel Management’s issuance of the Merit Hiring Plan, which asserted greater engagement in the hiring process by political appointees and introduced four essay questions to most federal job applications, in May 2025. The third question asked jobseekers how they would advance the president’s policies and asked for an example of an executive order or initiative “significant to” them.In U.S. District Judge…

Seferia Matrix is a one-player roguelite game created and published by SurvivalTaktix. The game will be released on Pc on Nov. 9th, 2026. It takes place in a magical academy where players roll dice to combine them as needed to cast spells, increase the damage of those spells, and complete the player’s objectives for each run. To cast a spell, players use 5 dice and utilize a Lock and Roll System. Players hold onto the results they want to keep and reroll all the dice they do not need in order to get the desired hand needed to cast a…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Saudi Arabia on Friday announced it had to temporarily shut down the key east-west pipeline after drone attacks on Thursday from an Iranian-backed militia group in Iraq. As we have explained in the past, the Kingdom has diverted millions of barrels of oil per day through pipelines to its Yanbu port on the Red Sea in an effort to minimize the energy shortages due to hostilities near the Persian Gulf that have closed the Strait of Hormuz.  The pipeline was shut down…

The modern battlefield is becoming more lethal and fast-moving, while the proliferation of sensors makes concealment increasingly difficult. Persistent sensing, precision-strike weapons, autonomous systems, and increasingly capable enemy artificial intelligence compress the time available to understand a problem, make critical decisions, and act on the battlefield. Soldiers and formations must therefore sense, decide, move, and strike faster than our peer and near-peer enemies. But competing at that speed requires more than new technology. It requires soldiers who can use increasingly capable systems without surrendering the knowledge and judgment required to fight when those systems are wrong, unavailable, or insufficient. Artificial intelligence…

Kremlin-backed actors used Anthropic’s Claude AI to program autonomous lethal drones, improve hacking and influence operations, and avoid detection, the company said Thursday.The report from the U.S.-based AI company is only the latest warning from firms, think tanks, and others that Russia, China, Iran and others are using made-in-America tools to attack targets around the world.Anthropic reports that a Russian “freelance” group known as GTG-27005 used Claude to build an AI model small enough to work on single-board computers but powerful enough to enable a drone to “select targets (including a ‘person’ target class) and issue detonation commands without a…

9/11 Memorial – As It Happened – 1720 Later that day, at 1720 – 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story building, collapses. This entry was posted on Friday, September 11th, 2026 at 21:20 and is filed under Memorial. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Alana Cook will be making history in a few ways with her Oktagon MMA foray over the weekend. At Oktagon 93 on September 12th, Cook clashes with Niamh Kinehan, with the former becoming the first Canadian woman to compete for the powerhouse European MMA promotion. Even beyond that historical trend, ‘The Alanamal’ will also become the first indigenous woman as well as the first member of Niagara Top Team to fight for OKMMA. While Alana Cook has previously spoken in French, she has also gone the extra step to learn Czech for her fight in Brno. Cook emphasized the importance…

A major artificial intelligence company said that Iranian bad actors used its publicly accessible software to target U.S. service members in the Middle East.The Thursday Anthropic report covers the time period between December 2025 and August 2026 and highlights the misuse of its large language model Claude, which it says the threat actor used to make targeting recommendations against U.S. Navy forces in the region.“The threat actor used Claude to compile targeting handbooks…to identify and track naval positions based on open-source information,” the report said.The bad actor used the AI software to collect information that included a list of U.S.…

Kielce, September 10th, 2026 – KNDS Mobility announces the commercial launch of CELERIS 8×8, a complete and highly innovative military mobility offer unveiled at MSPO 2026 and ready for the development of new vehicles. Following their strategic integration into the Group in April 2026, KNDS Mobility now completes their range of offers for their worldwide partners, with tracked as well as 4×4, 6×6 and now 8×8 dedicated military platforms. This new solution directly supports KNDS’s European and international strategy, enhancing the Group’s ability to control critical technologies and deliver complete and NATO-compatible vehicle systems to global markets. KNDS is combining…