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A PC gamer was saved by their gaming rig after a stray bullet was accidentally fired from a neighbor’s gun and hit the side of the PC, which damaged some major components beyond repair. Although the PC endured significant damage, no one was injured by the accidental gunshot. The incident came amid an expensive time for PC gaming. Since the fall of 2025, the prices of RAM and other essential components have risen exponentially over several months. However, these costs have been slightly offset by free and discounted PC games that periodically appear on various storefronts. Each Thursday, the Epic…

The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter’s readiness rates continued to decline through fiscal 2025, with the fleet’s full mission capable rate falling to 25%, according to a new Government Accountability Office report released Thursday.The mission capable rate, which measures the percentage of time aircraft can perform at least one of their tasked missions, dropped from 67% in fiscal 2021 to 44% in fiscal 2025, GAO found. The full mission capable rate, the share of time aircraft can perform all assigned missions, slid from 38% to 25% over the same period.Air Force officials attributed part of the fiscal 2025 drop…

The Leonardo AW 249 is making its international flying debut at ILA, courtesy of the fourth prototype in the test programme To date the Leonardo AW249 has flown over 1,000 hours with four prototypes. Leonardo works in a joint programme with the National Armaments Directorate and the Italian Army to get the armed combat helicopter they want into service. It’s been six years since the AW249 was launched, and the time has come for Germany to see it in action. Leonardo’s Lorenzo Mariani, the company CEO and General Manager said: “We are here in Germany because it is an important…

As the Trump administration prioritizes combating fraud in federal programs, the House this week passed almost a dozen bills, several of which are bipartisan, intended to strengthen agencies’ ability to detect and stop fraudulent payments. The Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act (H.R. 8312) would establish an inspector general office within the Treasury Department dedicated solely to countering grift in programs that provide funding to non-federal entities. This new IG for Fraud, Accountability and Recovery would subsume the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, a panel of IGs that was created in 2020 to oversee COVID-19 spending. Congress expanded the jurisdiction of the interagency entity,…

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A bomber disappears from radar screens, flies thousands of miles into hostile territory, drops precision weapons, and returns home without escort fighters. It sounds like something from a Hollywood script.Yet for decades, that capability has been very real thanks to the B-2 Spirit. Now, a new aircraft, the B-21 Raider, is preparing to take over that role, raising one of the most discussed questions in military aviation today: B-2 vs B-21, what’s actually changed?At first glance, the two bombers look almost identical. Both use the iconic flying-wing design. Both are built around stealth. Both can carry conventional and nuclear weapons.…

Islam Makhachev claims he was game to fight Ilia Topuria on June 14 at the White House. The two-division titleholder says he said yes to the superfight at once, but there were other reasons why it didn’t materialize, for which he cannot be blamed.Undisputed lightweight champion Topuria will now be locking horns with current and two-time interim 155-pound titleholder Justin Gaethje in the main event of UFC Freedom 250.Previously, several narratives emerged from Ilia Topuria, his manager, and Islam Makhachev’s manager, Ali Abdelaziz, regarding why this superfight between the 2 two-division UFC champs did not materialize. Now, Makhachev has shared…

This is the second part (I, IIa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. While I hope this will be of great interest to the history nerds out there, I’ve opted to structure this specifically as a service for the worldbuilders out there, making useful rules of thumb for imagining fantastical societies. Last week, we laid out some basic groundwork questions for our underlying society and then discussed what I’ve called recruitment principles – the social justifications for military service. And as we saw, some of those…

Iran Press TV Friday, 12 June 2026 7:01 AM Iran has condemned attacks carried out by the United States earlier this week on three merchant vessels carrying Indian crew members off the coast of Oman, saying the American “maritime piracy” poses a serious threat to international shipping. In a message on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei shared a report published by an Indian newspaper detailing the three US assaults, one of which killed three Indian seafarers. “The brutal US attacks on Indian commercial vessels, which have led to the killing of at least three Indian nationals, are the…

Nearly one in four college students face food insecurity. As the largest public nutritional program in the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is one important resource that states and colleges can use to support low-income college students. Yet SNAP eligibility rules for college students are complex (see the box below), and only a small proportion of eligible students participate. In Colorado, RAND researchers found that only 9.1 percent of all undergraduate students and 36.6 percent of likely eligible students participate in SNAP. These findings build on evidence of low SNAP participation rates in other states and national…