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HOHENFELS, Germany — From turning wrenches to turning tourniquets, hundreds of U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers deployed from around the world to the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany, in support of exercise Combined Resolve 26-07, 9 April thru 10 May, 2026. The overall mission of Combined Resolve is implementing the Continuous Transformation Initiative, utilizing new technologies and systems designed to enhance warfighting readiness and the ability to respond to crisis or conflict. The Continuous Transformation Initiative is grounded in one principle – increasing the lethality of U.S. Army formations by creating more agile and mobile units capable…

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 long-standing legacy of a man who first envisioned the need for the United States to achieve space superiority echoed through the decades at the unveiling of his bronze statue during the Air & Space Forces Association’s inaugural “Salute to Space” celebration on May 1. The bronze figure of Air Force Gen. Bernard A. “Bennie” Schriever, his left hand reaching skyward, shielding his eyes as he looks to the heavens, now…

We have you covered for all of today’s UFC Perth results, including the lightweight co-main event between Quillan Salkilld and Beneil Dariush. Dariush (23-8-1 MMA) will enter the contest looking to rebound, this after suffering a brutal 16-second knockout loss to Benoit Saint Denis in his most recent Octagon appearance at UFC 322 this past November (see that here). Prior to that setback, the 36-year-old veteran was coming off a decision win over Renato Moicano. Meanwhile, Quillan Salkilld (12-1 MMA) is currently riding an eleven-fight win streak, with his most recent triumph being a submission victory over Jamie Mullarkey this…

02:17 2.5.2026 The US ⁠State Department on May 1 said it has approved sales of military equipment worth more than $8.6 billion to Middle ⁠Eastern allies, including Israel, that have been targeted by Iran in retaliation for the US-Israeli air strikes launched on February 28. US Gulf allies Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates also were on the list of approved recipients of US military sales, the State Department said. The State Department said it was approving sales to Qatar of Patriot air and missile defense replenishment services worth $4.01 billion and of Advanced Precision Kill Weapon Systems (APKWS)…

Don’t expect middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev to buy into Sean Strickland’s threats of violence ahead of their title fight at UFC 328.Thanks to the intense rivalry between them, UFC CEO Dana White has already said that the promotion is beefing up security and doing everything possible to ensure that Chimaev and Strickland don’t come to blows before actually meeting in the octagon. But Strickland took things to a whole new level when he said he would be packing heat and carrying a gun with him just in case he gets jumped or suffers through an ugly confrontation with Chimaev and…

A group of Senate Democrats on Tuesday requested that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin urge the White House to withdraw the pending promotion of a Coast Guard officer who they say has been found to have retaliated against a whistleblower. In their letter, the lawmakers wrote that the inspector general for the Homeland Security Department in 2018 determined that Commander Jesse Millard retaliated against a subordinate after she filed a complaint against him and other Coast Guard leaders. Names were redacted in the IG report that the senators cited, but the document states that investigators found the “totality of evidence” showed that…

On Episode 283 of The Menace Podcast, host Dennis “The Menace” James, Milos Sarcev, and Jose Raymond took an early look at those that have already qualified for the 2026 Mr Olympia event in Las Vegas, and while Martin Fitzwater is slated to hit the stage, The Menace felt that he should sit this one out. Fitzwater had a solid 2025 season, finding fifth place at the Olympia and then winning the EVLS Prague Pro for a second straight year, but 2026 has been more physically and mentally challenging. At this year’s Arnold Classic in Columbus, Ohio, the man they…

People’s Daily Online (Xinhua) 15:24, May 02, 2026 LOS ANGELES, May 2 (Xinhua) — The U.S. Department of Defense said on Friday that it has entered into agreements with eight artificial intelligence companies to deploy advanced AI capabilities on the department’s classified networks for operational use. The eight companies are SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle. “These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen our warfighters’ ability to maintain decision superiority across all domains of warfare,” the department said in a statement. Meanwhile, the…

We have you covered for all of today’s UFC Perth results, including the welterweight main event between Jack Della Maddalena and Carlos Prates. Della Maddalena (16-4 MMA) will be returning to action for the first time since losing the promotion‘s welterweight title to Islam Makhachev at UFC 322 in November of last year. Prior to that setback, ‘JDM’ had put together an eighteen-fight winning streak, which included victories over Belal Muhammad, Gilbert Burns and Kevin Holland. Meanwhile, Carlos Prates (24-7 MMA) most previously took to the Octagon at UFC 322 in Madison Square Garden, where he scored a second-round knockout…

AI adoption is reaching an inflection point as the focus shifts from training new models to serving them. For the AI startups vying for a slice of Nvidia’s pie, it’s now or never. Compared to training, inference is a much more diverse workload, which presents an opportunity for chip startups to carve out a niche for themselves. Large batch inference requires a different mix of compute, memory, and bandwidth than an AI assistant or code agent. Because of this, inference has become increasingly heterogeneous, certain aspects of which may be better suited to GPUs and other more specialized hardware.  Nvidia’s…